Recommend voltage tester

[six-point socket II]

Also, multiple posts refer to “current” being in the circuit tested instead of just a voltage potential. If you have a powered circuit, i.e. voltage is present, but nothing is running on that circuit, there will be no “current” present. If you touch that live voltage, you will then get some current flowing, unfortunately it will be flowing through you.

Guilty as charged. I edited my post - so it refers to voltage only. English not being my native language, I mixed up voltage/current various times. Sorry for that! And thank you for the correction/explanation, so future readers won't be confused!

Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[dicktill]

I found these interesting comments on NCVT’s in Mike Sokol’s “RV Electrical Safety”:
“These testers need to have your hand wrapped around them to sense earth ground; so, if you hold them with just the tips of your fingers it’s possible to get a false-safe reading. Non-contact testers need your feet to be near the ground to know the actual earth potential, so if you’re standing on a fiberglass ladder, they won’t read properly”.

YMMV, Dick