There are plenty of descent manufacturers of Line-Earth looptesters, and you don’t have to be buying fluke. Those with the best marketing strategyseem to be the most popular, it doesn’t necessarily make them the betteroption. It’s a bit like Gucci or Armani! The flukes have been known to sufferblank screen and throw out a few error codes after a bit of rough treatment.
You can’t go wrong with the jap gear, nothing wrong with it.Look at Kewtech(Kyoritsu) for example, solid work horse you can kick around thestreet and it still works with values unchanged. Unit is also good, solid & reliable stuff. Afterall, most of the stuff we plug in these days causing the high leakage currents,and throwing up tripping issues in domestic RCD protected installs are loadedwith Japanese equipment. Their test instruments are no different in quality totheir TVs, Cars, and Motor bikes. You just got to ensure you grab the rightbrand.
There seems to be some tidy stuff on ebay lately. You may beable to save a few £££ as well. Good luck with that!