Included PCB with battery holder.
Extremely obscure and low cost construction. Both the contact to the drivers head and the battery is made by metallized PCB edges. The other pole of the battery is connect by the spring and the metal wire that sticks out. The spring also provides contact to the metallized top of the screw driver that you are support the touch.
Considering that this is a product which is used to contact live circuits under mains voltage. How many things can go wrong when assembling this? Crazy.
PCB top and bottom
Details of the PCB are shown below. There seem to be two NPN and two PNP transistors, according to the marking. In addition to LEDs, a few resistors and a diode. The "hot" input is protected my a 5.6 Mohm resistor. There After this resistor there seems to be one path through a diode and one path that through a 10 Mohm resistor. Possibly the circuit distinguishes AC voltage and DC conduction with the idea of detecting the hot and ground wire.
The high and low voltage parts of the circuit are only separated by minimum trace spacing on the PCB. This does not really look like a safe design to me.
Potential safety hazard and lack of proper functionality. Off into the trash it goes - strong recommendation not to buy.
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