400-Volt Electrician Gloves

These would be great for working on batteries while wearing a wedding ring...

Everyone,

Getting your wedding ring trapped between a wrench on the positive battery terminal and the chassis ground would cause a very hot piece of metal wrapped around your finger.

I’ve always been worried while working on 12-volt batteries since I can’t get my wedding ring off. But if I was doing this sort of work on RVs all the time I would probably get a non-conductive silicon wedding ring in place of my gold one. But nowadays I’m just extremely careful working on ANY live circuits.

High-Voltage Electrician Gloves

Now, back in the day when I was working on 480-volt 3-phase industrial power we had very heavy rubber electrician gloves with leather covers for abrasion resistance. They were hot and not exactly nimble.

But I just found these electrician gloves on Amazon rated for 400-volts that are very comfortable and nimble enough for working around batteries without worry about trapping your wedding ring in a short circuit.

While they’re a little tight on on my pretty large hands (I normally get XL work gloves), these gloves are flexible enough to be able to use wrenches and screwdrivers while connecting or disconnecting batteries. Plus, they have just enough capacitive connectivity that you can use them on a mobile phone to take or make a call.

While these low-voltage gloves are rated for 400 volts, I wouldn’t use them on live 120/240-volt circuits routinely simply due to the fact that they’re a little lightweight and could get a hole poked in them from large wires in a service panel. But occasional use would probably be okay.

Lock-Out/Tag-Out is much safer when working on 120-volt circuits

I just took a class on the latest LOTO (Lock-Out/Tag-Out) procedures last week, so I’ll do an updated post on it soon. But these gloves seem fine for working on 12-volt circuits where you’re primarily interested in avoiding wedding ring contact. And the rubberized surface gives you a great grip on tools and battery connectors.

You can get these gloves on Amazon HERE.

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Let’s play safe out there… Mike