Cable Tracers

[Snapester]

Anyone use them? Own one?
I was looking at the Fluke 2042 looks like a good useful piece of kit but.... EXPENSIVE!!

Thoughts?

 

[Guest111]

what do you want to trace? individual cores in a muticore(pair id) or just trace a cable?

 

[Snapester]

I have nothing to trace as of yet, i was rather looking at a tool that might be useful in my arsenal of equipment!

 

[Guest111]

I have nothing to trace as of yet, i was rather looking at a tool that might be useful in my arsenal of equipment!

I use a tone and amp as we had these at BT dead handy on any dead cable find a cable in a bunch without direct contact

 

[i=p/u]

well i was at a job today doing few tests, on additions to original circuits, and i tell ya nothing was numbered , nothing was labeled, so how do you guys do this on a daily basis,

i think one of these tools might of helped,,,, big panel feeding other parts of panel and then feeding other pannels, i was lost in the world of mars for a good while

 

[supasparxs]

I started working as a "Fixed wire engineer" a few weeks ago
(between you and me, I'm just doing in old money PIR's but since amendment 1 that's all changed)
a colleague that I've been working with has a "Socket and See" fuse finder.
the circuit needs to be live but it works great tracing old BS88 Dis boards, and all the way back thru several boards to the section board. but priced from £54 (for the Martindale version on ebay) they seem to be a good investment

 

[Snapester]

Yeah this is where i think it would be an awesome benefit! Save time isolating and trying to find feeds etc! For £300+ i think its a bargain, could save me a day.

 

[i=p/u]

buy me 1 too

 

[Snapester]

ha, sorry i would love to help but i think its gonna be hard finding dolla for it at the moment! lol

 

[i=p/u]

wish list...
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i really struggled today to work out circuits and this would of been the job, got to the stage i jjust gave up and helped other dude install hairdryers.....

 

[piratebillybob]

fluke (£300) is much more expensive than the socket and see version (£100)

is it worth the extra money, they seem to do the same functions?

 

[Snapester]

Do they do the dead tests to?

 

[Rockingit]

Don't know much about the spec, but was in CEF earlier and they had an Ethos kit in the cabinet which was a 'tone & receiver' type of cable finder. £165ish I think.

 

[MarkieSparkie]

Generally the types that are a two part system comprising of a generator/transmitter and a detector/receiver are better than a simple one piece tracer that detects the magnetic/electric field of a powered cable. A digital coded matched transmitter and receiver pair are more sensitive, discriminating and accurate than an analogue generator and detector pair. The two part systems come in three power types:- 1) Battery powered transmitter and receiver, only suitable for use on a de-energised circuit or installation. 2) Installation circuit powered transmitter and battery powered receiver, this system is only suitable for an energised circuit. 3) A combination kit with a transmitter can use either mode of power.

 

[piratebillybob]

i have to deal with control panels that are full to the brim with every day

ild love one of those things but i dont think it would work sufficiently well in an industrial panel environment to justify the price