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Does any one know of a wire tracer that actually works ;)

I've used a cheap phone tracer in the pass and it would tell me that either "Elvis the wire has left the building - ie. not found" or "I'm sitting inside the wire - ie its everywhere man"

I need something to track wires around buldings where the walls can be upto 1M thick stone and other walls are filled with multi-layer metal backed isulation. Also ideally need one that can work on live circuits.

Scan around the net give prices ranging from £14 to over £1,000 - Can't afford the latter (single man band) and know the former will not work :D

Any comments please

Leigh
 
It does take practice to get good with these things i used to use a tone and probe kit like BT have and had some really good results and some times it would pick everything up. We now use the fluke model which is really good as you can adjust the power of the transmitter and adjust the reception on the receiver you can really pin point where the cable is.
Regards
AJ
 
Intellitone is good but have had faults with it on Data cables and Cat5e/cat6 networks but its pretty good
 

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