Unless it's actually any good as a screwdriver, throw it away.
Neon screwdrivers at test instuments are questionable from a safety POV as they use your body as a current path, and they are unreliable - to safely check for voltage you must use a 2-pole tester, such as a proper voltage indicator or a multimeter.
A multimeter, at least, is an essential tool to have if you want to work on your electrics. It is just as important to have that correct tool as it is to have screwdrivers to use on screws instead of the point of a vegetable knife, wirecutters to use instead of nail scissors, wirestrippers to use instead of teeth, and so on.
This looks ideal for a household starter set - multimeter, voltage indicator and dedicated continuity tester, all in a handy case: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/showproduct/115/Junior-Set/
PDF brochure: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/downloadfile/115/beschreibung_1/
All in German, unfortunately, as is the blurb on each product:
Multimeter: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/showproductdata/487/Hexagon_55/
Voltage indicator: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/showproduct/116/2000_α_(alpha)/
Continuity tester: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/showproduct/481/TESTFIX/
but it is sold in the UK - the company is now owned by Fluke, and I guess they haven't got all the websites sorted out yet - contact them (http://www.fluke.co.uk) for info on where to buy.
(UPDATE - or used to be sold. Still a current product, can be bought from amazon.de for example)
Right now the English specs are still lurking on the Internet Time Machine from when Beha was an independent company:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060920022629/http://www.beha.com/files_uk/multimeter/93549.pdf
Also see another discussion here: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26282 It's a few years old, so specific model number advice may be obsolete (and prices will be higher), but the generic advice is still sound.
Neon screwdrivers at test instuments are questionable from a safety POV as they use your body as a current path, and they are unreliable - to safely check for voltage you must use a 2-pole tester, such as a proper voltage indicator or a multimeter.
A multimeter, at least, is an essential tool to have if you want to work on your electrics. It is just as important to have that correct tool as it is to have screwdrivers to use on screws instead of the point of a vegetable knife, wirecutters to use instead of nail scissors, wirestrippers to use instead of teeth, and so on.
This looks ideal for a household starter set - multimeter, voltage indicator and dedicated continuity tester, all in a handy case: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/showproduct/115/Junior-Set/
PDF brochure: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/downloadfile/115/beschreibung_1/
All in German, unfortunately, as is the blurb on each product:
Multimeter: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/showproductdata/487/Hexagon_55/
Voltage indicator: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/showproduct/116/2000_α_(alpha)/
Continuity tester: http://www.amprobe.eu/de_DE/showproduct/481/TESTFIX/
but it is sold in the UK - the company is now owned by Fluke, and I guess they haven't got all the websites sorted out yet - contact them (http://www.fluke.co.uk) for info on where to buy.
(UPDATE - or used to be sold. Still a current product, can be bought from amazon.de for example)
Right now the English specs are still lurking on the Internet Time Machine from when Beha was an independent company:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060920022629/http://www.beha.com/files_uk/multimeter/93549.pdf
Also see another discussion here: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26282 It's a few years old, so specific model number advice may be obsolete (and prices will be higher), but the generic advice is still sound.
