Awesomeness……great demo!

Would have been great if you demonstrated on an actual cluster of wires instead of a big piece of steel

@TheWizardofWestLA

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I will do that using a cluster of wires. Some tied together and other apart.

@TheWizardofWestLA

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Victor for the suggestion

@xbnayshun2765

3 жыл бұрын

What about the bottom of the probe...the 2 holes!..what’s it for??

@aafgra

2 жыл бұрын

@@xbnayshun2765 those are to insert toned pairs for final confirmation

I bought one of these to sniff out the wiring in my house. I was able to find two buried junction boxes in my garage ceiling and wiring running behind a wall. It saved me from tearing out that wall and those two junction boxes had overheated in the past, with some good scorching going on in the boxes. Also helped with the HVAC wiring, an installer hacked it up, this sniffer allowed me to make sure that wiring was still useable vs running new wiring through the wall and ceiling. The tone is just fine, it easily sniffed out multiple wiring in several walls which saved me a lot of work and time. I'm keeping mine, and I don't work for Klein.

Connect the black clip to a good ground like a ground bus or ground on an outlet and it will make that toner SCREAM! You will definitely find your cable that way.

Great job!! Very much appreciated 😊

1- Another trick which is somehow based on the same concept you alluded to (touching the conductor by your finger), is that if you connect both alligator clips to a pair of wires on one end and send the signal down the wires that way, and if at the other end of wire you encounter a plethora of wires which you might find confusing to identify, the trick would be to keep the probe amoung those wires so that you hear the probe sound, then try to short ends of each pair together. Once the pair which carry the signal get shorted, probe sound would stop. 2- I suppose the finger-touching trick you mentioned, is based on the concept that a bunch of wires close to each other can influence each other and due to the sensitivity of the probe, influenced-wires would cause probe's sound as well. By distancing the probe from the wire, in effect you are reducing the sensitivity of probe applied to the end of the wire, then by touching the wire by your finger, you are giving another path to the signal in wire to pass through (sort of grounding), hence weaker sound form the probe. I suppose if you wet you finger and stand bare footed on concrete, when you touch the wire with your finger, perhaps probe's sound stops (in fact your are grounding the signal in wire via your body). I don't have one of these, therefore I cannot test the above theory. I suppose if they make probes with sensitivity adjustment capabilities, we would not need to touch the wire by hand anymore. In such cases, when pretty much each wire is activating the probe, all we need to do would be to reduce the sensitivity of the probe and then bring the probe very close to wires. Signal-carrying-wire would activate the sound in probe, but other wire's signal would fall below the threshold of the sensitivity of the probe and would not cause any sound......Do you think this makes sense? .... BTW, thanks for your wonderful video ...

You are awesome! I have this tool and couldnt get it to work right and I finally got it to work right! Cant wait for the next job I get with a mess of cables to search through to finally be able to find what I need in a few seconds ! Right now pulling out connections and testing them one at a time to find a number tag is a pain!

@TheWizardofWestLA

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks you! Yes I am finding more and more uses for mine as I have to do a lot of wire tracing. Many times the labels are wrong. Thanks again for your comment!!! Thank you Sam Peters

@joedavila406

2 жыл бұрын

I found 1 of these ,do you know the value, or what I can get for it if I try to sale it

@DB-cx6cb

2 жыл бұрын

@@joedavila406 $2.00

@joedavila406

2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t have any need for mine so I sold it at the pawnshop they only gave me $15 for it and then another $20 for the box

Thanks for the video but word to the wise, don't go touching any wire unless every breaker is turned off

Just brought today, video was helpful.............

Can it find underground residential wiring (e.g. for landscaping lights)?

I have two outlets in my house that aren't working - both on the kitchen counter. One was a GFCI and I found out it had a loose connection and was creating an arc and burning the wire. The damage was very minor, but I replaced the whole thing anyway. However, the actual power lines before AND after replacing it, were dead (with the circuit breaker on, of course). The entire house is daisy-chained and several of the GFCI outlets are connected. One goes out, and you have to find out which one popped so you can reset it. But I didn't find any of them that were popped. (I say popped, because the reset button "pops" out when the circuit triggers a break.) So now I have no idea what to think. I've tested a few other outlets in the house, and they work fine. The problem is either between two outlets, or it is another connected outlet with loose wires that are no longer providing electricity to the two dead ones. But I have NO CLUE where this line leads to next! It's not the next outlet along the kitchen counter because that outlet appears to be a "dead end" that doesn't lead to another. Same with the second outlet that doesn't work - it seems to be the end of the line for that circuit too. So will a tone generator help me find which outlet this dead one is connected to? I was thinking about clipping the alligator clip on to the "live" wire at this outlet while the circuit was actually turned off at the breaker box. Then I was going to use the probe near the various outlets of the house to find where it leads. But it seems all tone generators are meant for just RJ11 and RJ45 lines. Will they (all) still work on electrical wires too? I don't need to follow the wires all the way through the wall, I just need to find the next outlet it connects to!

Trying to learn about this tool. NOONE has ever bought this tool to tone a metal rod. Explain real action situation, not playing with a rod of metal

@FlyingSparks12336

3 жыл бұрын

It’s more for if you can’t find an electrical box that the drywallers burried...send 800Hz upstream, run this along the wall and wait for the tone.

This is mostly used on telecommunications copper voice and dsl lines. I don't know the distance of the featured tone generator oscillation but the Greenlee , Tempo and Fluke brands tests up to 7 km. It will get lower with further distance but still audible in a 1000 pair 0.5 copper strands.

@TheWizardofWestLA

2 жыл бұрын

That’s great to know. Thanks!!!

It would be a better demonstration if you demonstrated finding a cable from a messy bunch of cables

@a.c.e.7568

Жыл бұрын

Exactly.

Good review

@TheWizardofWestLA

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Back your camera up several feet. Way too close and not easy to watch.

Do I connect positive to rj45 lan cable to locate the cable on the switch?

I have a switch in my house that is not hot. I’m trying to find where the circuit is broken, but when I hook it up to the ground on the switch, all the outlets around it light up. Please help.

Could you use this to locate unlabeled hvac units on roofs and use the signal through copper pipes to find the inside unit?

@jeremyhall7951

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@jeremyhall7951

3 жыл бұрын

Be weary of linesets crossing and touching multiple lines. Or gas pipes. Or metallic conduits.

@JDAfrica

3 жыл бұрын

I assume this device / system can be used to trace electrical wiring as well? If the system was switched off (not live wire). Been wanting to get something like that for isolating and following cable

do you use this with power off only on the wire circuit?

@arnieus866

4 ай бұрын

YES! First sentence in manual says only uncharged wires.

Just got one yesterday. This same one.

Who knew Klein made a rebar finding tool...

So, technically, I could shut off all circuits in a panel, clip to the hot wire of a cable, and trace much more accurately because it won’t be like the neutral or ground, which both connect at the service, and would ring out where ANY electrical wiring is?

Hi! I am a new IT Field Engineer that is working onsite for a client. Just the other day, I was asked to trace a network cable and it was a disaster. I am looking to invest in this tool since I am a beginner. Can this be used with RJ-45?

@TheWizardofWestLA

Жыл бұрын

Yes it has an adapter to work with RJ-45. Yes Veni it can be crazy sometimes tracing a network. I will also see other products that do some tracing also. Thanks for watching

The trouble is household 120V wiring is not shielded and when you have a slew of wires coming out of the side of a fuse panel that are all bundled together (and even if you cut the tye-wraps to spread the 14/2 wires), the signal still makes it to the adjacent wires. Go ahead and try to find the wire in question.

Wondering if you can identify certain metals with this toner generator.

@TheWizardofWestLA

4 жыл бұрын

It might. I’ll test it. Good idea.

I’m not really sure what touching the two probes through a conductor has to do with an incomplete circuit. It seems to me that you wouldn’t need to do this. If your red probe is basically Performing as a radio frequency transmitter along a single wire the tone should simply stop working when you find the broken section of the wire. The black connector does not seem to be needed at all and why would you touch the two probes together near the source when it wouldn’t generate at home along the wire at all anyways? Lastly a demonstration of what happens when you move the receiving unit away from and closer to the toned wire would be useful to show signal strength.

@TheWizardofWestLA

3 жыл бұрын

My goal is to do another video with it really retracing the wire. I want to demonstrate how well it performs. I also want to try other sensors also. Thanks Roman for you comments!!! And thanks for watching. If there is anything else you would like to see let me know.

It tells you it's the tone when you touch it because it's using you for an antenna

***********The Toner-Pro transmits frequencies on non-energized wires only************

Play on 2x speed

It sounds like an ice cream truck

Good for automotive work?

@TheWizardofWestLA

11 ай бұрын

Yes I tried it to search a wire. It worked

this video gave me a headache!...too much zooming in!!!

How in gods name did this video get 984 thumbs up?

Omg I don't have the Patience for this

cut your nails lmao but good video

Dont add music.

Bad example

Sorry but your video is not so good, we didn't see a half of your explanation, your camera was too close

Sloooow review man. Drink some coffee. Also your vocabulary sucks "to see if a wire is open or closed"... you mean a CIRCUIT. Why wouldn't you use a regular 2-wire cable for an example? People who don't understand electricity won't understand your "short" example. "It'll tell you what it will do". The hell are you talking about dude?

Don’t buy it. This toner only tone this metal road, not real life you use any kind of cable. Anyone thumbs up to our paid people

@jeremyhall7951

3 жыл бұрын

English not your strongest language?