I retired from AT&T use the tone generator for 40 years after reading some of these comments I think it's too simple for them to understand you turn the amplifier down to the minimum volume and when you get close you can tell the difference in the amount of tone being generated and that's where you start looking for your problem but you have to listen to the tone

I guess the reason this video made total sense to me and not others is because I use one all the time in computer networking, and know how they behave. It really is as simple as trace your toner down the wire until the tone fades off, and you've found your 6 to 8 inch area to search for a broken wire. Also because when Brian says "short" I can listen to what he means not what he says and understand he means an open break in a wire.

Hey mate! I left you a comment a while earlier in the year saying I'd started mechanics and your vids were really helping me which you replied to, well now I'm still doing my course, I got a job and thanks to this video I fixed a car with air bag problems that my boss and co-workers were stumped on, haha and I'm only the assistant!

@crushed2543

2 жыл бұрын

Man got any tips for me I'm just about to start my classes

@skillfuldan

2 жыл бұрын

Bro, plz tell me you’re killing it in the game now!

@crushed2543

2 жыл бұрын

@@skillfuldan If this is to me not so much I'm sti just in classes but I've now mounted an engine and know how to lift an engine and we've dissasembked one almost to the bare bones prolly next week we'll have it all the way split apart and clean it and put it back together

@anonimoporsiempre6033

Жыл бұрын

@@crushed2543 I have a few be happy about what you are going to be learning Be in school everyday that the class are on Study a lot See the job more like a hoby instead a job and tnen you will never have to work for I hope by now you finished your course and you are workinf full throttle 👍🏼👍🏼🤔🤔😎

@nmartin5551

Жыл бұрын

You have a bright future if you can take the information and actually apply it to diagnose stuff!

You're the first guy who actually traced one wire using ONE lead (black) of that tone generator. All the other demonstrations I've see used two wires and both black and red leads which made me think the device could not trace one wire. I only want to trace one non-energized a/c wire (behind sheetrock) and see if its among a group of wires at another location. THANKS! Follow-up...I purchased a Fluke that's similar to the tool you're using and it worked just as you demonstrated. I found the wire I was looking for and was able to repair my a/c lights and power receptacle issues very quickly. THANKS AGAIN!!

From a utility guy this is a critical tool in my bag. I carry a few at all times. Nothing beats hearing a tone over a mile away

FANTASTIC, I appreciate you mentioning me. Thanks man. I'm also glad you picked up this tool. For the life of me I don't understand why these tone generator tracers haven't been fully disseminated in the field to most repair shops. In 20 years as a tech I probably went through 15 of these units. I kept running over them. Good job, I could do a whole series on techniques on using this tool. It is a great time saver...

@mohammedbierey

3 жыл бұрын

Then do it

@rick31869

3 жыл бұрын

what tool is this adp ?

@charleshubley8502

2 жыл бұрын

I'll n4

@pamelavance648

3 ай бұрын

Techniques would be awesome Yes years later lol

Im an electrician and this is my favorite tool in my bag. I can find ac wires in attics, junction boxes, panels, walls. Ive fixed my van with it, and used it on an aircraft carrier for complex equipment some pretty amazing distances. The one I have currently I bought from harbor freight for 12 bucks, and it works like a champ. I even screwed a drywall screw into a plywood wall, hooked a lead up to it, the other to a ground, went on the other side and found my exact mark where i want to drill.

@thnkbg

7 жыл бұрын

Can you please thoroughly demonstrate it?

@martynthomas6924

7 жыл бұрын

wearing only a thong and red lipstick.

@skrajrrd

7 жыл бұрын

DangerDaveFreestyle hi can I know is there any chance to work with u I'm an electrician too This is my whatsapp n Facebook num 9014779171

@skrajrrd

7 жыл бұрын

DangerDaveFreestyle if no please please suggest me somewhere else thank u

@Sean-mc4iq

6 жыл бұрын

it will go as far as dial tone would go... I've gone from a customers home to the CO 18KM away and still hear my tone.

solid, quick, to-the-point, no stumbling over words, no teleprompter.

As an Internet technician I am happy to see this used for other purposes , Thanks for the video

@briansmobile1

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I'm a retired VZ Cable splicer and I've been using this to find opens in my vehicles for as long as I can remember. Its got me out of a lot of jam ups plus made me a lot of overtime. A must have for anyone that does there own trouble shooting.

@RacerX_1111

2 жыл бұрын

I’m just starting out as a VZ splicer.

@kyleevans1705

2 жыл бұрын

CWA #UnionPride

@marvinr5054

2 жыл бұрын

@@kyleevans1705 Retired CWA Local 1106. And proud of it!

Watching this in Dec. 2021. they are now less than $30 and it's the ONLY WAY TO GO when sniffing out electrical problems! Thanks for the great video.

oh wow !!!!! ive been looking for this tool for long time, seen a guy use one for "belling out" cables, ive been searching the net trying various terms, this tool is also amazing for anyone doing any wiring, not just fault finding, when you wire a house for example and you forget to mark the wires, "bell" them out using this tool, thumbs up and subscribing

I'm a field service engineer and over the years I have worked on many types of equipment and something like this would be helpful, but I was vexed at your test. Please understand I'm not busting your chops....I do respect tech people. If I may recommend that you do a follow-up vid with a better organized visual that will leave no doubt of what the tool does.

@briansmobile1

8 жыл бұрын

+Louis Balboa Absolutely.

@jaxxonbalboa3243

8 жыл бұрын

***** NO NEED YOU ALREADY MADE A FOOL OUT OF YOURSELF QUITE BRILLIANTLY AND I KNOW I COULDN'T TOP THAT.

@danielnguyen1291

7 жыл бұрын

Jaxxon Balboa j

@guesswhomartin9249

4 жыл бұрын

Jaxxon Balboa...Very well said.

I thought the same thing. If a circuit is shorted to ground the tone would be everywhere in the vehicle. This tool would be great for open circuits. Thanks for your input.

I had a problem with my internet and watched the tec dude wave his magic wand over a whole bunch of wires a few times to detect the bad wire amongst them out the front of my place and thought wow, that magic wand would be perfect for finding a wire problem in a car. Thumbs up bro. Nice find. Every Auto elec should have one of these or similar.

I did not realize how old this conversation was. I agree with other posters, don't confuse an "OPEN" with a short circut. If it is a SHORT circuit there would be blown fuses or "TRIPPED" electrical Breakers. In my 30+ years, (IN NEW JERSEY) I can say , it has to do with salt effects after a snow storm. Electrical connections don't like salt,(neither do I) I have put in over 120 man hours in the last year on our 2004 Tahoe , with 160K miles and I still need to replace/repair,,,, SOOO many things.

This is great for boat repair. I have a 30 YO boat with apparently 3 different electrical systems installed one on top of the other over the years. Without this tool, I would have to crawl through bilges, lockers, etc. following wires the hard way. Great presentation, BTW

The handheld wand is an induction amplifier so it picks up EMF or other transmissions and amplifies them. That is why you can hear the 60hz from the electrical cable in the wall. The same holds true for the toner in that you can hook it to a wire to trace (with power OFF) and you point the little tip at your wall and sweep it back and forth and listen for the loudest tone. You can then sweep and follow that wire. I found a wire that was open one time and I told the guy where it was but that I had to open the drywall. Behind the wall was a buried junction box where the wire burned open. They had the box packed with dry newspaper to allow for the drywall to be patched. What happened is they changed a window out to a door and cut and extended the wire on either side of the door. The customer only let me fix one side so I had him sign a waiver that I attempted the complete repair but he was refusing to let me fix it...SMH...I mean it's not like there isn't a possibility of it arcing and burning possibly starting a fire? It already did that...people...

For the past two months, I have had no dash lights and no park lights on my truck. So when I drive at night, going to work, my rear lights are not lit up unless I press the brake or the blinkers because those two both work Thank you so much for your video and I’m so glad I found it because I’m going to use this tool to find the problem. All the fuses and relays and everything is good in my truck so it’s gotta be a wire.

@DamnBrother

Жыл бұрын

My grandma's van doors stopped opening automatically, dash lights and tail lights quit working. A shop wanted $7k to "diagnose" with the possibility of not fixing it. So I said fuck it. Pulled out my multimeter, traced wires, checked all the fuses. Everything was good. I finally cleaned off the negative terminal of the battery it had a small amount of corrosion and boom it fixed everything and it's never had a problem again for years now. All over a little corrosion, it could've cost an elderly woman $7k lol

Can't believe how many tradesmen I asked about this tool that I knew existed. No one knew what I was talking about. Thanks a million. My biggest problems is from probing the wires to test them and creating an even bigger problem later on when wires corrode and break. Usually many more than the one I fixed. I run a small fleet of transport trucks in Toronto, Canada.

Why do ppl thumbs down your vids??? You're great! you're funny and highly informational! step by step instructions and you get back to ppl's comments. You're great Brian

Excellent demo Brian, I'm a Tech of 36 years and sure could've used that a few times, instead of the old inductive type with a breaker. :-)

I'm having a problem with my turn signal and my hazzards on my front passengers side of my vehicle. That is a awsome way to find a break in a circuit. Thanks a lot guy. Thumbs up

I'm a former telco tech and have one of these just kicking around. Never thought to use it for car repairs at the house. Awesome video.

Excellent video, Brian! Thank you for showing how to use the tone probe. We may give this a shot at trying to track down wiring issues in the truck.

@KillerZero259 I don't mind the thumbs down. I appreciate any kind of feed back. I'm open to improving myself, but I also understand humanity has an AMAZING and wonderful amount of variety. (I like that- I get bored of the same old shit pretty easy) With such variety you have to realize you won't please everyone with everything you do. Thank you for your enthusiastic support. I feel that and appreciate it!

Any of your videos I have watched have been helpful...much appreciated,Thanks

wow how many years did i go without knowing about this tool !!!! Thanks for sharing

Jack, guys like you are what make the web and KZread AWESOME! Thanks for contributing your knowledge and expertise to myself and others. You're the man!

It can work on wire break only. Try this. Take a 14 gauge, or any gauge, and shave about 2/3's of the wires. You will still get tone. So, shorts to ground or high corrosion will not register. It's a great idea, but it does have it's limits.

Hi, I wanted to thank you for your video. I'm quite horrible with electrical. I've been for the past hour trying to wrap my head around isolating one wire in a wiring harness using a multimeter, a 9v battery and some alligator clips. I thought it'd be simple enough to push a voltage down one wire and then read it on the other end (not understanding about return paths). You didn't completely solve my problem, but you inspired me to use the continuity mode on the hound of my tone generator set to push the voltage on the pin and then read the pin on the far end of the extension harness to accurately detect which wire was going where. The problem with tone generators is in close proximity to other pins, the volume of the tone can be equal making it unclear which pin in a harness is the exact one. By reading the voltage with a multimeter you know exactly which one is getting all the love.

Great tool to find shorts in doorbells, intercoms in apartment buildings! I have used it with much success. If you use it for 110 volts be sure to disconnect power to wire at breaker or fuse before working on live circuit. It can be used to successfully trace a wire or wires. Not good for wires in conduit with multiple conductors as energized circuits can give false reading when circuits are hot.

The better fox and hound probe kits have a 60Hz filter switch on them, so that you can get rid of any nearby AC electrical interference or hum from overhead lighting, etc. A must-have when needed to isolate a wire in low-voltage circuits such as this one.

@briansmobile1 Thanks. One technique on using this unit is to remove the fuse and connect the two alligator clips across the fuse using two jumper wires. This technique is useful in the event that you need to follow a power distribution circuit. An example would be a fuse that's popping all the time due to a short. With this technique, the component that's shorting the circuit would be the only one with a tone, identifying the culprit immediately. Good luck.

@jashawnsylvester4313

4 жыл бұрын

Blallmon

Could use something like this ocassionally. But unrelated I still want to thank you for putting out a video pulling out a 4.0 motor from a Jeep Cherokee. It helped me greatly 4 1/2 years ago when I did a swap with a new engine on my '90 Jeep. To this day running sweet!

Shorts or broken wires are ahassel to repair and find by looking and guessing the demo makes it easier and faster to locate than "let me see" or "Wonder where this goes" I use to use multimeter will look for this tool. Anyone want need short finder training buy buick, the trunk wires flex and break yearly. Thanks Brian.

The video is cool. But i do want to say that any tech out there that don't like to share info. For example the guy that didn't want to tell you the make on the test equipment, those guys are assholes. I work in the UPS field, work on Transistors, and inverters and caps, etc, etc. And i hat coming across dumb ass's that don;t want to share or show you the tricks to troubleshoot quick. Well let me say that i always pass my knowledge down so thumbs up for you partner.

@briansmobile1

10 жыл бұрын

Way to go man! The more you teach others around you the less often you'll find yourself "surrounded by idiots." Teaching is fun, but it's also why we have public schools that we all pay taxes for. It benefits everyone when people are smarter.

Feedback: Brian, you're obviously very smart and know your stuff. I trust your videos; you've successfully helped me with my car a few times. You're probably just being yourself, but that's great because it translates to an honest, straightforward, to-the-point, and yet laid back delivery of the necessary information to get the job done right. Simple and easy! I really enjoy and appreciate how you do it. You're one of my favorite automotive KZreadrs! (In the top three, for sure!) Thank you!

This is a great video! I'd never heard of this type of thing to find a wiring issue, looks a lot more efficient than a lot of ways to do this kind of thing.

Friend of mine has problems with brake light on his roadking, 4 different shops n 400 later the problem persists. This is perfect tool to find the problem. Ty

@ADPTraining You're welcome- I'm no expert on using it yet, but am happy to promote you any way I can. You're the real deal when it comes to technical diagnostics. I love your videos!

The only time the tone reduces is when the tool is moved away from the harness. Passing over the supposed "short" (the cut) the tone continues without a break until he moves the tool away from all wires. This demo shows nothing!

@dennismoore8613

9 жыл бұрын

andy bee Exactly 777000 people who are no wiser and look as stupid as a person using a hammer as a saw.

@creativecreative9582

9 жыл бұрын

andy bee I thought the exact same thing as +andy bee , but after seeing 7578 likes and only 182 dislikes i then thought i was the only person that thinks this demo is worthless. This demo is absolutely worthless it doesn't even begin to show you how to find a bad wire in a wiring harness.

@jrmym2

9 жыл бұрын

andy bee Wire beyond that point wouldn't be emitting the generated tone, so the device would behave exactly as it does here although there is no wire beyond that point(Brian is tracing an imaginary wire)... but I think you should just hire someone to work on your car...

@jrmym2

9 жыл бұрын

Dennis Moore You are the only one who looks stupid here... this ain't rocket science.

@jrmym2

9 жыл бұрын

Dennis Moore And how is a DMM gonna show you where the short is?... especially if the cable's buried behind something? You are a doofus with a bad attitude...

I don't have any currently. I sold them to people I know- and they're doing awesome!

Power Probe 3000 has ben on the market for some time and does a good job of finding the location of your problem. It send a signal down thru the wire and you trace this signal with a handheld probe that provide you with a lit symbol telling direction you should follow and this light changes to a dot when you reach where the break or short is. I you cross over the short the light will reverse direction. Great thinking on part of Power Probe and in providing a good engineering solution.

For those who thumb down this video, go turn your man card in and take your car to the dealership so they can do the repairs for you. This video is a demonstration on 1 way to use the tool. If your tone suddenly disappears/stops, thats where your short is. Its that fast and easy. This tool goes well with my digital multimeter when I diagnose problems with my car.

@JulesBartow

6 жыл бұрын

I lose my Man Card every time I read the damned installation & setup manual. Last lost it programming a VFD and using Alexa to turn my TV off and on. Never ever visit an Ikea. Ikea saws your testicles loose from the vas deferens with a rusty butter knife, leaving you a eunuch, but with no extra screws and bolts left over if you actually followed the procedures.

I had someone in the shop to film and a brand new tool in my hands- I just went for it cold turkey. ; )

I have a same tool but of a different brand but they all work the same. However, it will not find a short. A short makes two wires as one wire. Tone will continue for the entire length of the wire. Opens, yes since the signal will fade after the open, however, an adjacent wire will pickup the signal and radiate and you may miss the short. It takes practice with trail and error to get close to an open with bundled wire. A simple AC circuit behind a wall can also throw you off. If you put the toner on the BLK and WHT wires(no power) and only one of them is open, you'll past the open. Again, experience using the tool takes time but it is still a great tool to have. May use it once a year as a homeowner but it's indispensable.

Just so happens I do LV cabling; however, because I'm also restoring a 1992 Toyota ST185, I will use this method to troubleshoot engine / body wiring harness issues if they arise. Great idea, thumbs up! *_TRUST !!_*

I recommend checking inside the switch and where the wire harness follows the frame.

sooooo, not sure if I understand. how does it pin point the exact short. the sound gets quieter the further you get away. there's lots of wires put together under the shirt. you can go in any direction and it gets quiet. doesn't really say much

@patrickbryan367

8 жыл бұрын

I also are left a little boggled on how it pin points the specific location of the failed lead

@IBWatchinUrVids

7 жыл бұрын

I suppose if the sound fades at a junction in the flex loom, you'd try following possible routes, eventually finding either the short, or, the end of the circuit. That said, the device is quite large, and difficult to get deep up into the dash. Still though, even if it doesn't find the short, it could possibly guide you closer to the problem.

@snap-off5383

6 жыл бұрын

First of all it doesn't find shorts, Shorts just burn fuses and wires. It finds BROKEN or OPEN circuits. It doesn't find the exact spot, it finds the general area reducing the search down from 3 yards to 6 inches.

@BjorgenEatinger

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, you CAN find a short using the fox and hound probe, because if you find that MORE THAN 1 WIRE, has the tone, when it should NOT, then the wire with the tone is shorting to the wire that should not have the tone. This occurs often when I am doing cross-connects in phone room.

@marysage7960

24 күн бұрын

Thank you 😊

Excellent video, Brian!

This makes a lot of sense, I like it. Right now chasing down a battery drain on a 2001 Cavalier, brand new battery, it's fine if you drive it every day, 13.6v running (alternator charging) 12.36 after 30m off, about 11.5v by the first start of a morning which is enough to start, but after 3-4 days of the car not being driven the battery reads 6 or 7 volts. I see these tone generators on Amazon for as little as $37 (Fox Jr and Hound Jr kit with carrying pouch) and $70-$90 for nice ones.

a cut wire = an open circuit most of the time. Ive used this devise for many years while installing security systems. Its very hand when sheet rockers have rocked over your pre wire install. If the wire is shorted, IT WONT TRACE. it only picks up the tone in an open circuit.

I have something like this , works for open but isn t helpfull for finding shorts .Just to know what to expect for...

This is the tool I need! I knew it must exist, I just didn't know what to call it to search for it! I'm finishing a job an electrician walked out on... wires run, drywall up, nothing connected, wires mislabeled. Some not even labelled. I keep getting these gigs from jobs the pros walk away from because of impossible clients. lol. My work passes inspection, everything works... maybe I should get a licence so I can charge more.

@theobserver9131

4 жыл бұрын

I got hired to do a little masonry on this house. Now I'm doing everything from electrical to drywall finishing to trimwork and plumbing.

Your,behind time,this product was been out for over 8 years ago.I't a good thing your just now catching up !

The manufacturer of the Extech 40180 Tone Generator does not make any claim to finding shorts in wire in a cable. This is a "linesman" device, used for primarily for tracing wires in a cable, mainly for IT and telephone communications. Yes, it will allow you to find where an "open" in the cable occurs, however, it cannot distinguish between a "short" and a normal electrical junction in one of the wires.

@MrFryfish

9 жыл бұрын

you can identify wires that get on their integrity through in a bunch of MANY cables to the place where there supposed to connect bulbs/relays/ electronic modules..

@eleanorecopet4090

6 жыл бұрын

V Mukal nn

@BjorgenEatinger

6 жыл бұрын

You are mostly correct-however, see my reply above. And you would be even more correct when the wiring loom is connected to a type of chassis or distributed ground, as a short to ground would be easier to find with a standard volt-meter.

@twobanger21

6 жыл бұрын

Finally, somebody who gets it!

With that tool I am not understanding how a short to ground/another wire would show up. I understand the broken wire part, but not the other??? Scenerio, Wire runs along the frame and is constantly shorted to ground, but still follows its path. How would this tool sound?

@fredlorehezu5245

10 жыл бұрын

First you would remove any equipment that is attached to the wire you will be testing such as say a clock, a radio or even a light bulb. For that would effect your reading with the tone generator hocked to the wire and frame saying the frame is normally you ground where all equipment hooks too. Next see if the tone generator has a solid tone setting of a pulse setting you may wish to try each most of the time it is what ever is working the best and the operator of the equipment can hear best. Now see if there is a power output level of the tone generator. If so start on a lower setting and see if you pick-up the tone out away from where you have hooked it up at with you probe. This may take some time at first to get the feel of doing this. It is very easy once you see what is actually going on and your doing it hands on. Now actually hooking it up to the frame and wire your testing . Apply tone to the frame and the other lead from the "Tone Generator" goes on the wire your testing. So you signal will then travel to the closest location of the faulted wire to the frame from the "Tone Generator" and will stop there you may here a bleed over slight tone sound still past the fault depending if the faulted wire to the frame is solid it will stop at or very close to that fault to the frame. But if the wire to the frame is a high open or a light fault you will at least hear a change in the sound of the tone generators signal. You would locate the closest fault clear the fault or repair it. And pt the tone generator back on the wire to see if the signal travels to the end of where the wire goes to with good clean tone on the wire from the tone generator. Note: if your testing a wire that has a problem with fuses blowing as it wold sound in the above instance. Testing where the fault is on a wire to the frame. You may also find or need to test for multiple faults on the wire but find it is not just to the ground or frame rather. It may be crossed or faulted to other positive wires in the bundle also. You can hook the tone generator to more than one wire at a time to get a general idea if that has happened but you will need to test between your wire with tone on it and the lead from the tone generator to another wire you may think it is faulted too. Most of the time a person will still use a volt ohm meter first to see where the wire is faulted to then you use tone to see where the tone signal stops on the faulted wire or the tone changes as in the pitch or sound level volume. As I mentioned before look from the tone generator out to where you signal changes, just always make sure ever piece of equipment is off the wire first. And the same would go like this say the faulted wireis also a ground wire which is grounded to the frame as in most vehicles. There are instances where a ground wire can cause trouble on it even if it is faulted to the same frame where it the wire is grounded too. here again just treat it all the same disconnect the wire going to the frame and and equipment that is hooked to that ground wire. Next continue as before hook one side of the tone generator to the faulted ground wire and the other lead to the frame and test from the tone generator out. Your fault is where you signal stops or changes on the wire your testing.. Also most of the time the tone generators have a red & black test lead you connect. Try to hook up your red lead from it to your faulted wire you will be tracing and listening to the tone on and the black to where it may be faulted too. Running a complete open in the wire is easy same process but easy to find where the open is unless it to is a high open or light open fault in the wire then the sound of the tone will change but that change location is the fault location. And never think that you cannot have more than one fault on a wire. Always retest with a volt ohm meter after you clear one fault before thinking your done. I know I just made this worse read parts you can understand a little at one time, then go on to the rest. There is no way I can explain all the different fault testing like this. But if you can get to understanding what I'm trying to explain you have a good shot at it. Take care, aka; Fred. .

@franzbodmer3301

6 ай бұрын

@@fredlorehezu5245 holy frick, this is pretty ingenious. thanks for that.

Boy, do I NEED this tool! I have been trying to find a short or break in an AC electrical line in a greenhouse trying to understand why the lights are not working. I have spent all week working at trying to find the faults in four lights. I have got to get one!

@sarahjessie5831

10 жыл бұрын

i had a problem simul ar to yours, i found an open ground (white wire) in breaker box, or could be your junction box. hope this helped.

I think this tool will be a great help, I ordered one. The one thing that can make it confusing to some people is thinking it is a cure all for a circuit with so many redundant grounds while checking it can bypass the open wire while being bundled due to the fact that a redundant ground can be in proximity to the open, still great video, I think it will be a good to play with. Glad to see another rcer in the business. I am a rc and gadget junkie. glad its not drugs i would be homeless.

FALSE PROMISE in that he is not showing some of the cant do situations. I worked with telephony many years ago. Business phone systems typically use 25 pair wires in one single cable, (LOL, I did say many years ago) The automotive harness is similar in many respects. When you clip the tone emitter to a pair of wires (or several pairs at once) the sound will travel down that cable quite a distance. This is very handy if you're in the basement and the cable terminates in some back room on the third floor or visa-versa. However the tone will travel through lots of the wires in a tight bundle (ie:25 pair phone cable or auto wire harness) and you;ll have to do a lot of searching to find the exact pair you want to isolate. The tone does cross-talk to other wires in close proximity and adds an additional puzzle to figure out. I wouldn't be without a tone emitter in the telephony business but I know it's applications and limits. For a DIY automotive novice its just another tool to play with and divert you some from the frustration. At least for the time duration that you spend figuring out the new toy and then its back to the frustration but now with the additional frustration of having less money in your pocket. If you are in a mid-size to large city, The large electric supply houses stock these and can even let you play with it there. I always liked Graybar Electric. They are probably still around. Just a side note: Graybar was four hours behind Alexander Graham Bell in filing for the patent on telephones. Good Luck. Phil

@briansmobile1

8 жыл бұрын

+phil huber Here's another video I did that demonstrates it's use much better. → kzread.info/dash/bejne/gX6u0cSRnbDdpbA.html

I didn't get it either. I was expecting you to run the meter over the wire and when you came to the break the tone would stop. Did I miss something ?

@llVIU

5 жыл бұрын

it did, open your ears

Great tool Brian 🙌 I will buy my own because I trace lots of shorts on trucks at my shop

I have a version of this tool made by another brand and did not think to use it. Bought to locate wires behind walls and it served its purpose Harbor freight has this tool for under 30 bucks.

Ha. Using this video today.

@thesmartguy3523

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, what a coincidence, Jerry is up to something 👴🏽

@phillipnguyen8138

3 жыл бұрын

Help

@briansmobile1

5 ай бұрын

I'm behind on my comments- hope it helped. On the Hummer?

@sivucit Ok, you're asking me more than one question. I'll try and answer the best way I can. If there's a short, connect the transmitter across the fuse after removing it. The tracer will beep all throughout the circuit. Remember, if you have a fuse that feeds multiple components it'll only beep from the fuse to the shorted component, not the good guys.

@youngmoore8628

3 жыл бұрын

Thank u great

Whoa, this is the first I've heard of this device. Brilliant.

@001Source Way to go! Glad you tracked it down- you're awesome!

i believe this is a cable tracer not a cable short circuit tracer.

@melv432100

5 жыл бұрын

They are called a tone generator.

@melvinkimble7709

5 жыл бұрын

mrwatcherofmovies tick tracer is what cable calls it

@gregkuester8989

4 жыл бұрын

Yep toner

@johnson554671

4 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what that tool is. And I've also used that specific one before, and for tracing cables. This is coming from and Electrical Engineer.

do you ever watch this guy? he's smart, kind, and knows how to do a lot of shit. check out his videos before hacking on him.

@twobanger21

6 жыл бұрын

He knows nothing about electricity and testing equipment.

Brian. Like your calm & clear yet substantive explanations to tech problems.. Thanks much

Came cross this video again as KZread suggested. Wow it’s been 10 years. I still remember watching this when it was just posted

@sivucit Not familiar with CONT. These units may have slight differences. I've always used tone.

@deniss1

3 жыл бұрын

CONT means like Contact ,when the two Adsl internet wires have been touched together and that brings an internet problem

@deniss1

3 жыл бұрын

If it is Contact the light will open on the device and you wont hear the sound anymore

@jbbolts

3 жыл бұрын

@@deniss1 you wouldnt hear it even without contact. in continuity mode it doesn't generate a tone signal the light just lights up when the 2 leads are shorted.

@deniss1

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbbolts i dont know what u mean mate,i been using that device everyday for 5 years

@jbbolts

3 жыл бұрын

@@deniss1 mine has a 3 way toggle...tone off(middle) and continuity...tone transmits the plelele sound that can be picked up and followed with the probe off is off and on continuity there is no sound transmitted the only thing that happens is when you short the 2 leads a light goes on.. using a progressive electronics 200EP inductive amplifier

open circuit and shorted is difference thing. this tools actually to trace open circuit. :))

@samuelsteelman4015

4 жыл бұрын

8@

I am always in the market for diagnostic tools that will cut down repair time. Thank you!!

Brian... I'd like to start out by saying I'm a fan. So I am not attempting to bust your balls. You should point out that the inductive field works great on the voltage feed side of the harness... ONLY. I mention this because you used the ground harness as a demo... and some guys (like myself, who learned this the hard way) may not realize that when you connect the toner to ground, it tones everywhere that is connected to ground. SOOoooo... It works great for tracing harness, as long as such is not connected to ground, on chassis ground systems. Love your vids... I've learned a lot from you. Keep it up! (The Mig Feed Aluminum Welding vid was great!)

The manager of a bodyshop where my insurance had sent my car to be repaired after it was hit in a parking lot (while parked) found a short by replacing the fuse that kept blowing with a 50A fuse and looking for where the smoke came from... That's fast and dangerous.

@twobanger21

6 жыл бұрын

That's one way.

@carlosmejia5728

6 жыл бұрын

Luca Colonnese .He's an idiot!!!!

The video title is "finding a active short". It's on realfixesrealfast channel.

@franzbodmer3301

6 ай бұрын

thanks for this one. brilliant

Thanks for posting this.........wow 12 years ago......I have missed out on having this tool in the Automotive trade............Clayton

I like your direct no nonsense style. thanks

the only thing you showed us was a metal detector. you didn't show the principal use as described. the tool makes no sense unless your trying to find a wire in a wall. it didn't even do that correctly.

@stevepseudonym445

4 жыл бұрын

You didn't understand what was being shown at all. It wasn't shown as well as it could have been, but it's pretty easy to understand if you've got a even a basic understanding of the purpose. What he was trying to demonstrate is how to find out which of dozens or hundreds of wires in a bundle is the wire you've located somewhere else.

@jackle842000

4 жыл бұрын

You plug the one unit into the wire and it sends a signal down the one single wire that's detectable by the thing you thought was a metal detector, it isn't, and wherever it senses the signal it makes louder noise the closer you are to the signal source which is the whole wire that secondary unit is hooked to.

I don't want to sound as harsh as the last post , but for me I need to know WHY,,,, and I don't think you explained, WHY it works or why this tone is sounding and this other tone is different ? However, you are # 1 of my top #5 automotive youtube channels, there are sooo many less informative channels. I think you are terrific and look forward to many more.

Great tool. I've used it for telephone and door bells. Especially good in apartment buildings with lots of wires!

People, if you are not Savvy enough to understand this video., please take your vehicle to a mechanic before you hurt yourself...

@alientrade

7 жыл бұрын

Well Genius, I have the same response as many of the other people do. This guy doesn't show finding an open OR short. Like so many other videos, he touts how great the tool is, but doesn't show finding an actual problem.

@KingBaby44

6 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@joesantigati8483

6 жыл бұрын

I work on rigs myself and my old boss turned me on to tone generators. On a wiring harness the size of a softball, its a God send.

@pauljeand3659

5 жыл бұрын

people are here because they want to learn 'how to stay away from THIEVING mechanic"

I find your video lacking information such as the actual name of the tool you use. you simply state that it is a cheaper version also when you describe the change in tones you don't really explain how to detect the actual change and sound and wear it occurred I couldn't tell what to listen for only where the wire was , not where the break was.

@briansmobile1

8 жыл бұрын

+Maria Lemieux You're right. Here you go → www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ADHQCIO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00ADHQCIO&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwyou00f-20&linkId=RABN33T7L42ZYU5T

@BjorgenEatinger

6 жыл бұрын

In order for multiple tones to be useful, it is a lot better to have TWO (or more...so long as each has a unique tone capability) transmitters. Big time saver when running all over the place when a circuit is 100s of feet in length (no need to run back to the transmitter to change to the other tone).

the demo didnt quite go as planned but the idea is clear - got it - thanks

I am a mr. fix-it kind of guy, and perform alot of wiring trouble shooting on motorcycles. I am impressed with your tool, and probably will be purchasing one very soon. Your video was,enlightening!

Well Articulated Presentation BUT deserves a "Re-Do" 1- No Actual Findings of Any Short/circuits etc. 2-No Reason stated as to why Tool 'Sounded Off' on 'Top' area of Wall Switch (w/out Wires) as well as 'Bottom' area (where the Actual Wiring was Located). "?" 3-it was a Poor Demo of a 'Seemingly' Great TooL Try Again & GdLuck

You keep saying short when in fact you are descibing an open.

@eisiebuddaie3551

6 жыл бұрын

yup. If shorted you would loose tone.

@shanebehm8251

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, thanks you!

@JulesBartow

6 жыл бұрын

To find short circuits (or the absence of continuity indicating noise in a wiggle test for intermittent open circuits) supplement your Fox and Hound toner & probe shown here with a Power Probe Scream'N Continuity Tester & Voltage Detector PWP-PPCT.

@wb3161

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it is an open and I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t work many times in automotive because there are many times that same circuit running to different loads from the same fuse. If it was a single in line circuit it would be wonderful. I’ve loved and done auto electrical work since 1980. Otherwise a pretty cool video

@stevepseudonym445

4 жыл бұрын

@@eisiebuddaie3551 The tone continues until the far end of the conductor it's connected to. The typical use is to find multiple points along a conductor without having to follow the entire length by hand, which is difficult or impossible when the conductor runs through walls or is part of a large bundle of wires. Since a short means that conductors that aren't supposed to be connected are you'd find the tone continuing through conductor(s) were you shouldn't have it. If you recognize that the path is no longer correct you can find the location of the short.

The demo you did was done on a dead part. The common laymen need to see an active demo on a real in use auto wire harness. I fully understand the device function and I still was confuse.. As an old women once said years ago (where the beef) lol good job just define you demo we need people like you. thank I going back under my shade TREE!!!

I love my fluke pro 3000… Does essentially the same thing… These tools will save you tens of hours, good video

That is a Cool Tool‼️ A Time and Headache saver. For sure! 👍🏼

I've used a tone generator and inductive pickup on telecom and data wiring for years. It never occurred to me to use it for automotive diagnostics. DUH! Thanks for pointing out what should have been obvious. Another great video.

thank you sir !!! one thing to add about breaking the jacket on the wire such as when people use circuit testers and ice pick the wires by stabbing them. That method breaks the strands of copper wires inside the jacket thus reducing its Ability to carry the amperage load aka more shorts or a wire that burns out similar to a fuseable link..... THANKS AGAIN!!!!

These videos are ALL so HELPFUL!!! Thank you!

From the mouth of two witnesses! You're the second person who suggested that today. I'd be a fool now if I didn't do that first. Thanks for the advice.

The perfect tool for todays cars .and all the wires and computers ,thanks a great video

Great for finding an open, I didn't see in your video how to find a short

this will be a big help and save me alot of time when im looking for wire's start and end with Adt. thanks

I would just like to say thank you for making this video. I had no idea that something like this was available. I just bought a old bus conversion and there are wirers are going everywhere. looks like a rats nest and I had no idea what I was going to do and your video gave me hope. I just bought the Hound 3 on amazon for $74 with next day delivery. felling optimistic!!

@michaeljacobus7006

2 жыл бұрын

How did you make out?