Fitting pendant lighting

[hairyben]

Renovation said:

hairyben said:

The error you made (and are presumably still making) is it's not enough to throw any switch and hope for the best- you should be using a suitable testing device/procedure to prove the circuit dead.

I have testers etc

The error I made was knowing that I'm careful enough to do it live and getting blasé

Did you read that sentence back yourself?

And I'm sorry but I'm confused- did you throw the wrong circuit breaker and get shocked not realising the circuit was live as you suggested in your previous post or as above decide to intentionally work while the circuit was energised then?

[Renovation]

hairyben said:

Did you read that sentence back yourself?

And I'm sorry but I'm confused- did you throw the wrong circuit breaker and get shocked not realising the circuit was live as you suggested in your previous post or as above decide to intentionally work while the circuit was energised then?

I have worked on live circuits many times without incident.

I always treat electrics as if they were live.

This time I just flicked off all the upstairs lights and still treated them as if it were live but obviously "knew" I'd turned off the power hence was blasé - and got a jolt.

I know exactly how to do it but familiarity breeds contempt - all the sparkies I know have had a few jolts.

But after one - I'm now back to being careful.