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Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Carrying out an Earth Continuity Test

This test is carried out on all Class I appliances. The purpose of the test is to check that there is a good connection between the Earth pin on the plug and the case of the appliance. A good connection is defined as having a resistance of less than 0.1 ohms (or 100 milliohms).

(This blog post is a chapter extract from the "Manual of Portable Appliance Testing")