love how concise and to the point you talk . without giving any redundant and extra information.like who invented electricity or what electricity is used for, like a LOT of people do. They talk for 3 to 4 minutes before they get to the point. Love your delivery style. Not one single unnecessary word. Awesome.
Thanks your explanation was simple and easily understood by someone like me who has some familiarity with electrical circuits and connections and use it for work but I’m no electrician.
I use a fluke toner and probe it has some cool features like smart tone. Pretty good video . Interesting toner has the connections built in that's cool .
Does it work if one of the ends is connected ? I need to find, among a bunch of other cables, which one is connected to a printer. I can turn off the end connected to the printer but I can't risk pulling off the wrong one on the other side.
I have a cable going from the panel and disappearing behind the drywall . It is connected to a breaker on my panelwhich is in the off position but everything in the house works . I have a tool like you re using but it seems to be a cheepo . When I near it to the wall in the vicinity of the panel in area where the cable goes under the sheet rock, there is no distinction in signal strength no matter where on periphery of the panel I place the sensor. The beeping is the same and weak. Are there devices that will send signal that point directly to where the wire travels under the drywall. ? Thanks for any suggestions.
But what should you do If you allready have a infrastructure in a used house, and you have no idea where they go. There are six tubes in my telephone and cable-box under the fuse box. Two goes to the two bedrooms. But the last four I have no idea. They may be hidden behind drywall since the first buyer did not want to pay for extra outlets around the house? Tried a cable puller but as mentioned I only found outlets in the two beedrooms. A toner would not read cables trough the wall. But tought of getting a strong magnet roller that maybe can find the tip of the cable puller trough the wall if I search enough with it.
You can disconnect all the wires and then test each one at a time. If you need to know where the wires are run (as opposed to only knowing where the other end is), you might want to invest in a higher power wire tracer than can pickup the wires deeper in the walls.
Hi and thank you for your answer. The infrastructure has no wires, but are "free" to use for phonelines and coax. When the house was bought new the previous owner could pay extra to use them for something. Therefore I have no idea where the last tubes goes. I belive there are boxes hidden behind the drywalls. I`ve used a 25m "fish rod" and tried to listen where it goes, but no idea there either. What I think I need is a magnet or a bluetooth transmitter on the fish rod so I can go around the house with a reciver and find where the tubes go.
late comment, those Sperry tone generator/ induction amps suck. the worst one I have ever used. I use Fluke and I know they cost $20.00 more than the Sperry now days, but cheaper than they use to be. In my opinion, best tracing tool I've ever used since 2008ish
It can find cat5 cables behind walls but it really depends on who deep in the wall they are. I used the tracer to find a speaker wire that was about 3" behind the wall. The tone was very faint, but it found it for me. The higher end tracers put out more power so are better for find the path of wires behind walls and ceilings.
Ok but what if you can't see the wire behind a wall? What If I wanted to trace a wire that is somewhere behind a wall but I don't know where my contractor ran it exactly.?
2:20 If they are deep in the wall, it's rather difficult. You may have to invest in a higher power signal tracer. I typically start at the transmitter and I probe every foot or so following the signal. If I loose the signal then I know the wire goes deeper in the wall and I either need to buy or rent a better tracer or punch a hole in the wall (which is sometimes cheaper but a bigger pain).
I have a wire tracer similar to the one shown in the video. It seems to work fine in wires in general, except when I try to trace wires in a house branch circuit: 1) relevant breaker for the circuit in question is turned off, but I still could detect a very small voltage in the wires (maybe 3 VAC, probably floating voltage due to induction coupling or whatnot) with a multimeter and the wire tracer did not work at all; 2) assuming that this small voltage was interfering with the signal, I turned off all branch circuits in the circuit breaker panel to no avail ---- no tone detection at all. Any insights?
Hmmm. That's tricky. I can't imagine that 3VAC would interfere with the signal. The signal is AC but not 60Hz. Is it possible that the wire where you applied the tracer signal doesn't actually go to the breaker panel? I recently helped a friend and we found that he had an inoperable light (new house) and the wire to the light got routed to a random outlet box and never connected! The signal tracer didn't help us there.
Yes, this one has a coax connector included so it could be used for finding an antenna wire. The tool I used in this video is the Sperry Instruments ET64220. You can find it at Amazon and on numerous other online stores.
So if it beeps on the other end, the cable is good? In telephone or fax line cases, you have a good line from the fax outlet to the 66 block? Then the trouble has to be on telecom company side.
The wire tracer only helps you locate the wire. It is not a wire tester. So in the case of a testing a telephone wire, it will not tell you if each conductor is good. It would only require that one conductor is good enough to carry the tracing tone. You might want to try an RJ11/45 modular plug tester for what you are trying to test.
Everything I'm reading is correct, but you can easily use a tone generator, impedance bridge (Meter) and or Multi-meter to troubleshoot bad wiring ect. If you use a multi-meter (volt meter basically) check for resistance (OHM's)
I need a device to find cables from a patch panel to a switch..this is good for tracing the line from patch or switch to its other end but what do I need to trace cables from patch to switch when you have 100s of them all over..
Yes, but the circuit must be de-energized - meaning the circuit breaker has to be turned off. There are live wire circuit tracers that can used with energized circuits but those can get pricey.
Yes it will. If all 6 cables are bunched together, you may need to temporarily separate them so ensure you are detecting the signal on the correct cable.
I just want to shoot a signal down one unenergized a/c wire (behind sheetrock) to see if it's among a group of wires in a different location. Can it do something that simple?
I have been using a cable tracer made by bequick here in the UK. It is simple and a game changer for cable tracing. It is not like the traditional audible tracers. This one utilises LED RJ45 connectors. Here a short demonstration if anyone is interested; /watch?v=GtpAmbmm4dA
The center conductor of coax is very well shielded if you're injecting the signal on that. If you're able to disconnect the coax at both ends, injecting the signal on the outer connector should give better results.
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love how concise and to the point you talk . without giving any redundant and extra information.like who invented electricity or what electricity is used for, like a LOT of people do. They talk for 3 to 4 minutes before they get to the point. Love your delivery style. Not one single unnecessary word. Awesome.
Thanks! I try to be helpful and only add as much background as necessary.
This tracer you have it quite handy and mostly because of the several adapters that lets you connect to different wires. Thanks.
Thanks your explanation was simple and easily understood by someone like me who has some familiarity with electrical circuits and connections and use it for work but I’m no electrician.
Would be awesome if you put a link to the tool ;) and where we can buy it
Love the shirt! My three rules for carpentry are:
1. Measure with a micrometer.
2. Mark with chalk.
3. Cut with an axe.
I love it! You should make a shirt...I'd buy it!
thanks for keeping it simple and helpful!
Awesome video. Straight to the point
Thanks! Glad you found it useful.
I use a fluke toner and probe it has some cool features like smart tone. Pretty good video . Interesting toner has the connections built in that's cool .
does this work with cable behind drywalls?
Thanks for this video man!!
You bet!
Excellent instructional video. Very informative.
Good explanation thanks. Love the shirt too 😂😂
Very informative, thanks
Well done! And yes that is a great t-shirt. 😁
Thanks for the video and awesome shirt! I want one!
Great shirt
great video, to the point without blah blah.
Can it also be used as a basic voltage tester?
Does it work if one of the ends is connected ? I need to find, among a bunch of other cables, which one is connected to a printer. I can turn off the end connected to the printer but I can't risk pulling off the wrong one on the other side.
Man that shirt is great lol
very useful tool
Will this work to find our doorbell transformer?
Yes, just be sure to shutoff the power. Even though the voltage is low on a doorbell circuit, it could damage the tracer.
I have a cable going from the panel and disappearing behind the drywall . It is connected to a breaker on my panelwhich is in the off position but everything in the house works . I have a tool like you re using but it seems to be a cheepo . When I near it to the wall in the vicinity of the panel in area where the cable goes under the sheet rock, there is no distinction in signal strength no matter where on periphery of the panel I place the sensor. The beeping is the same and weak. Are there devices that will send signal that point directly to where the wire travels under the drywall. ? Thanks for any suggestions.
Alligator clips red and black, how do you use it? Need to use both clips at the same time?
very good explain, thanks
I need something to find a ethernet cable in a rack knowing that the wall jack is in another building. How to do it ? Thanks
@ToolboxDIY what can i do if i cant find the end of a wire? ( got 8 rj45 built into the house , only found 3 near the breaker box)
Hi Is there a maximum distance for this? like for example I need to trace a wire 1 kilometres away? thank you
Is there a tester that will work if neither end has a connected on it.thank you
Looks to me like it's the Sperry Instruments ET64220.
I think you used your good eye.
But what should you do If you allready have a infrastructure in a used house, and you have no idea where they go. There are six tubes in my telephone and cable-box under the fuse box. Two goes to the two bedrooms. But the last four I have no idea. They may be hidden behind drywall since the first buyer did not want to pay for extra outlets around the house? Tried a cable puller but as mentioned I only found outlets in the two beedrooms. A toner would not read cables trough the wall. But tought of getting a strong magnet roller that maybe can find the tip of the cable puller trough the wall if I search enough with it.
You can disconnect all the wires and then test each one at a time. If you need to know where the wires are run (as opposed to only knowing where the other end is), you might want to invest in a higher power wire tracer than can pickup the wires deeper in the walls.
Hi and thank you for your answer. The infrastructure has no wires, but are "free" to use for phonelines and coax. When the house was bought new the previous owner could pay extra to use them for something. Therefore I have no idea where the last tubes goes. I belive there are boxes hidden behind the drywalls. I`ve used a 25m "fish rod" and tried to listen where it goes, but no idea there either. What I think I need is a magnet or a bluetooth transmitter on the fish rod so I can go around the house with a reciver and find where the tubes go.
late comment, those Sperry tone generator/ induction amps suck. the worst one I have ever used. I use Fluke and I know they cost $20.00 more than the Sperry now days, but cheaper than they use to be. In my opinion, best tracing tool I've ever used since 2008ish
Does it work to find the cat5 cable behind walls? All I see is the sensor needs to be touching the cable to sound
It can find cat5 cables behind walls but it really depends on who deep in the wall they are. I used the tracer to find a speaker wire that was about 3" behind the wall. The tone was very faint, but it found it for me. The higher end tracers put out more power so are better for find the path of wires behind walls and ceilings.
I have juice at the breaker where the wire connects. But no voltage at the switch for that same wire.
verz good explaion tank you
very well explain
It's difficult when you are testing wall-jacks that are close together with other cables at a server closet....
what model is that wire tracer its amazing
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can i purchase this device?
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Ok but what if you can't see the wire behind a wall? What If I wanted to trace a wire that is somewhere behind a wall but I don't know where my contractor ran it exactly.?
2:20
If they are deep in the wall, it's rather difficult. You may have to invest in a higher power signal tracer. I typically start at the transmitter and I probe every foot or so following the signal. If I loose the signal then I know the wire goes deeper in the wall and I either need to buy or rent a better tracer or punch a hole in the wall (which is sometimes cheaper but a bigger pain).
I have a wire tracer similar to the one shown in the video. It seems to work fine in wires in general, except when I try to trace wires in a house branch circuit: 1) relevant breaker for the circuit in question is turned off, but I still could detect a very small voltage in the wires (maybe 3 VAC, probably floating voltage due to induction coupling or whatnot) with a multimeter and the wire tracer did not work at all; 2) assuming that this small voltage was interfering with the signal, I turned off all branch circuits in the circuit breaker panel to no avail ---- no tone detection at all. Any insights?
Hmmm. That's tricky. I can't imagine that 3VAC would interfere with the signal. The signal is AC but not 60Hz. Is it possible that the wire where you applied the tracer signal doesn't actually go to the breaker panel? I recently helped a friend and we found that he had an inoperable light (new house) and the wire to the light got routed to a random outlet box and never connected! The signal tracer didn't help us there.
good, thanks
That find dish antena wire? What's that brand where awailable
Yes, this one has a coax connector included so it could be used for finding an antenna wire. The tool I used in this video is the Sperry Instruments ET64220. You can find it at Amazon and on numerous other online stores.
So if it beeps on the other end, the cable is good? In telephone or fax line cases, you have a good line from the fax outlet to the 66 block? Then the trouble has to be on telecom company side.
The wire tracer only helps you locate the wire. It is not a wire tester. So in the case of a testing a telephone wire, it will not tell you if each conductor is good. It would only require that one conductor is good enough to carry the tracing tone. You might want to try an RJ11/45 modular plug tester for what you are trying to test.
Everything I'm reading is correct, but you can easily use a tone generator, impedance bridge (Meter) and or Multi-meter to troubleshoot bad wiring ect. If you use a multi-meter (volt meter basically) check for resistance (OHM's)
I need a device to find cables from a patch panel to a switch..this is good for tracing the line from patch or switch to its other end but what do I need to trace cables from patch to switch when you have 100s of them all over..
Could’ve like used the other clips instead of assuming we were looking for that specific type with that hook up
But this is not identify which pair is damage
So can this be used to trace AC house wires?
Yes, but the circuit must be de-energized - meaning the circuit breaker has to be turned off. There are live wire circuit tracers that can used with energized circuits but those can get pricey.
will this work on bare end cables to? I have about 6 cables going into a utility closet and they are just stripped back cables (not to the bare metal)
Yes it will. If all 6 cables are bunched together, you may need to temporarily separate them so ensure you are detecting the signal on the correct cable.
I just want to shoot a signal down one unenergized a/c wire (behind sheetrock) to see if it's among a group of wires in a different location. Can it do something that simple?
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Sheesh I fucking need this for work.
I have been using a cable tracer made by bequick here in the UK. It is simple and a game changer for cable tracing. It is not like the traditional audible tracers. This one utilises LED RJ45 connectors. Here a short demonstration if anyone is interested; /watch?v=GtpAmbmm4dA
As long as I can find wires behind walls
Here's the solution.
Use pieces of electrical tape at each end, and number the cables, prior to pulling them.
You're welcome
I bought this exact thing to trace and find my internet coax so that I can splice an extender into the line.... NO LUCK finding it yet... =\
The center conductor of coax is very well shielded if you're injecting the signal on that. If you're able to disconnect the coax at both ends, injecting the signal on the outer connector should give better results.
did you try attaching it to outer mesh or foil?