Cable Tracers

[supasparxs]

The problem with these cable tracers seems to be the range.

You can easily find a cable at a fuse board if you hold the receiver right next to the cable you are looking for.

But if you are trying to trace a cable that disappears into walls and under floor boards that's a different story.

The two piece kits do definitely seem the best but as for range, I mean when you are searching for where a cable goes through a wall I just do not know the best one to buy.

Does anyone have any real experience of tracing a circuit through a house?
Not just locating cables at the fuse board but actually tracking a cable under floor boards etc.

A colleague has the "Socket and See" version and we used it to trace a circuit.
we used it to trace the circuit thru 2 boards to the section board so we could identify which circuit on the section board it was on
(we have been doing a PIR on a former factory which is now warehousing.
As a result there are alot of redundant circuits
(the warehose has 4 transformers in it. to be honest 1 transformer would be more than enough)

 

[Rockingit]

I bought a Di-Log one from our friendly forum sponsor a couple of months ago, it's worked very hard since so here's some feedback:

In a word, brilliant. Not infallible, and you have to take a little time to get used to how it wants to work, but it's saved me so much time that I can't now imagine working without it. The transmitter unit is powerful enough to work to a 'rough' area of a couple of metres, but set it to a lower power and you can trace down to around +/- 30mm ish. T&E is a dream to find a single cable, though you have to watch how you use the earth as a transmitter carrier otherwise you make the whole installation transmit! It also has a no-contact mode so you can use it as a wander-wand to find live cables in walls but with far more precision than a normal stud/cable or pen type. If you use more than one transmitter and set them to different channels then the detector auto-ranges and tells you which one it's picking up.

 

[La Poste]

I bought a Di-Log one from our friendly forum sponsor a couple of months ago, it's worked very hard since so here's some feedback:

In a word, brilliant. Not infallible, and you have to take a little time to get used to how it wants to work, but it's saved me so much time that I can't now imagine working without it.

That's good news to me as I have an unused one sitting here and had lost faith in the manufacturer due to their leakage tester, basically I haven't even tried using mine yet:

http://www.electriciansforums.net/electrical-tools-products/53164-di-log-dl6507-faulty-design.html

 

[DaveyD]

Hi, anyone have eith of these? Review? TIA, David
[h=1]Martindale FD650 and KEWTECH FUSE FINDER Fuse Finder[/h]