Cable Tracker with Tone Generator

[Mottie]

No what you linked to does NOT do the same.


Have a merry Christmas Day Mottie.

Merry Christmas to you too, mattylad.

 

[SUNRAY]

I have one of those too, they check continuity, that there are no crossed connections, or shorts, work quite well, but you need to make sure the light sequence is the same, at both ends.

Hah hah yes. we had a job some 25+ years back where a rack had been removed and the cables reterminated in another rack. No idea what skills the guy had but he had managed to terminate them incorrectly - the lights flashed in sequence but out of step with each other. The kit we patched to it simply didn't work and of course patching back so the 2 halves of the tester were side by side the flip was cancelled out. It took some head scratching until I used a tone tracer to prove a cable one pair at a time.

 

[Ragnar_AT]

Lights out of sequence (e.g. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 on one side and 1-2-4-3-5-6-7-8 on the other) means swapped wires.

Two or more lights on at the same time means two wires shorted together, missing light is wire open (not at all).

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Hah hah yes. we had a job some 25+ years back where a rack had been removed and the cables reterminated in another rack. No idea what skills the guy had but he had managed to terminate them incorrectly - the lights flashed in sequence but out of step with each other. The kit we patched to it simply didn't work and of course patching back so the 2 halves of the tester were side by side the flip was cancelled out. It took some head scratching until I used a tone tracer to prove a cable one pair at a time.

Some of mine, ran for miles down river banks, level sensing, alarms, and telemetry. I devised a pair of army surplus telephones to help with the job.