Southwire 40022S Receptacle Tester; Black

This is awesome! Even if you dont wire outlets yourself, you should check your outlets. This tool helped me to see there was an issue with a ground wire. The ground wire had a small hidden break in it and I was able to locate it and fix it. Without this tool, the outlet would work, and I wouldnt have known that it could be a shock issue. Very helpful!

This tool does what it is designed to do. Read the design parameters. This is a basic tool....detects common defects. Keep in mind that poorly installed electrical systems can have a baffling combination of errors. If the solution to your problem is not immediately apparent...seek qualified help!!!

This is great for checking and replacing receptacles. You can be sure that youve turned off the right breaker before getting to work. You can be sure youve wired things correctly when youre done. Its easy enough to use that you wont be tempted to cut corners with your safety.

Good product for the price. Works exactly as it should. Recommended.

Only real complaint is that I was hopping the lights were LEDs and therfore a littl brighter, but for the price is is bright enough and works perfect. The GFIC tester is a nice thing to have.

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I set out on the adventure of replacing the old dark brown AC receptacles in our den, which used to have dark wood paneling on the walls. The room is now white, so the dark brown switches and AC outlets stick out like sore thumbs. This outlet tester has been an invaluable tool in the process. Not only can I make sure that I turned off the correct circuit at the breaker box, but it also let me know that I didnt properly secure a neutral wire on one of the receptacles, which made all of the other outlets in the room read as hot/ground reversed. That would have been difficult to diagnose for an amateur like myself if it werent for the tester readout. I also got a contact-less tester, which has been a huge help in making sense of the puzzling wiring decisions that the builders made in parts of our 40-year-old house. Between these two tools, Ive been able to safely and (somewhat) confidently meddle with the AC outlets and light switches in our house.

Never use one of these before, but I was testing outlets in the house just to see what would happen with the different outlets and actually found an outlet where the ground was never attached when the house was built

Worked as promised to check the wiring of a gfi outlet and to test the ground fault mechanism.

Got it for home inspection and it worked as expected.