PTEWire Tracer & Circuit Tester - Tone Generator and Probe Kit - Find & Trace Wires and Cables, Test Circuit Continuity, Network Telephone Lines - Features Alligator Clips & RJ-11 Plug

Good quality, sound is great. Continuity test works well. All round a good purchase.

Useful gadget! I was trying to sort out some wiring in the kitchen of my new house and needed to trace some of the wires - with the power off, hooking the sender unit to them allowed me to easily trace their route above the ceiling by using the probe with the volume/sensitivity turned up. I also traced a mystery power cable which was plugged in to a socket but disappeared down under the floor.Do bear in mind that for proper results, you'll want both ends of the wire being tested disconnected - otherwise the signal will naturally propagate throughout the rest of the circuit the cable is connected to.The continuity testing mode (which uses the sender only) is a useful additional feature.A case for the units would have been nice, but isn't all that necessary, especially at this price point.I also found the probe used alone useful for locating powered mains cables, as it picks up the AC hum from a powered cable easily.Batteries aren't included, so make sure you have two 9V PP3 batteries to hand (one each for the sender and receiver units).If you want to trace phone cables, grab an RJ-11 to BT phone socket adaptor for UK phone sockets, for instance this one: BT431A to RJ11 telecom test adaptor.

I got what i expected, no more no less. Handy, versatile non contact tracing tool for many purposes. Very cheap.

Hey! So, I bought this because I had 3 spotlights out of 12 in my ceiling not working.My uncle and father tried fixing it but thought it was going to be a bigger job than they thought. Mum called in an electrician who viewed and said yeah its a big job and they will have to remove the whole ceiling and look for the wire/rewire the electrics. Nothing happened and lost both my parents.. after 6 years of the lights not working I come across this device and bought it thinking what harm?I used it and followed the buzz in the ceiling. It stopped around 40-50cm away from the spotlight. I then went into my parents room right above the spotlights in the dining room and could hear the beep in this device still. I pulled the carpets and exposes the floorboards. Low and behold, the wire to the 3 spotlights had seperated from the live. I attached it back and voila!This saved me atleast £2000 maybe more!All electricians should own this!!Amazing product!

The tone detector is useless: the signal is very weak (even when cranked up) after 10m, and forget about making the difference between 2 cables coming out of a wall socket. I bought that to sort an electrical network: impossible to tell which cable is which. You just get the constant tone generator going full level, with no difference between cables -even if you make physical contact.The continuity probe (using the alligator clips) works ok.It's cheap plastic, but I don't mind.

Had a problem with my alarm system and, on checking it out, determined that all four wires with the harness were shorted together. I also determined that the fault was between two windows about 4m apart. The harness had been attached to the wall prior to plastering and did not run in a conduit. I had no clue as to its path within the wall. Took a chance on purchasing this unit in the hope that it would detect the path of the harness buried about 16mm (5/8 inch) within the wall. When I received it, I connected the red wire to one of the alarm wires. Using the tracer, I got verinconclusive results. Found the path to within about 600mm (2 feet) I then connected the black wire to a good earth and the signal increased. Accuracy was to within about 2 inches on either side of the cable. Excavated a small portion of the plaster and found the cable exactly where I expected it. A few more mini excavations and I found the fault. While a good earth is necessary, I found that if I hold the black lead by the crocodile clip, it enhanced the signal sufficiently to detect the route of the cable

Great little tone tester which I bought to trace the wiring of the fire alarm on a new -build site which had been wired incorrectly and the ceilings were all up and I only had access via the circular holes that the LED lights were mounted in. Saved time and the removal of parts of the ceiling. Great.

As yet only tried on limited basis. Decent tone with volume adjustment. Seems a useful tool for purpose purchased namely tracing route of dead power cables/wires within a wall, ceiling, concrete/suspended floors, etc. Centre point indication would have been nice as not much difference in tone as the centre of cable route width is reached regardless of volume setting. Loads of these tool types "out there" so impossible to say if there is something else that beats it for less money. Surprisingly the more expensive Schneider Electric tool I found virtually useless at the same task and was promptly returned.

The media could not be loaded. This tools was paramount in helping me replace the instrument Custer on an older tractor. The wires running under the hood were all the same color so I needed to trace each wire to its origin so that I could determine what it should connect to.A few months back I started doing it by hand. An hour and multiple gashes later, I thought that there must be a better way. I had heard of these type tools before and even before reading the reviews, I was skeptical. After a bunch of research on which device to buy, It came down to this one or a much more expensive professional unit. Since I don’t plan to use this tool very often so the less expensive unit was the more reasonable option for me. I could buy 10 of these for less than half the price of a pro unit.Anyways, I settled on this Wire Tracer device and boy was it ever a life saver! Instructions are pretty darn straight forward, the most difficult part was finding the two 9v batteries required. (So don’t forget batteries if you don’t have them)I simply connect the sending unit onto the wire lead I wish to trace back and then run the receiving unit along the wires until I hear a beep. This made it easy to determine which wire went to the fuel gauge, which went to the thermostat, etc. This time around, with the assistance of this tool, I was done in an hour!Well worth the price for me! Build quality is exactly what you’d expect for this price point but, so long as you don’t toss it into the bottom of your tool bag, they should last at least a few years of medium usage. If you’re planning to use these daily, I would suggest looking into the more professional units as I don’t think these would hold up to rigors of daily use.I can also see this being very useful for finding breaks in an invisible fence.

Premetto che uso questi strumenti da anni e per urgenza lo ho ordinato. Praticamente impossibile individuare i cavi il segnale non viene praticamente rilevato anche in presenza della sola guaina, se sei fortunato senti il bitono bassissimo purtroppo non ho piu la confezione per restituirlo altrimenti lo avrei fatto.

Pour le prix, le service rendu est excellent.Je m'en sert fréquemment pour comprendre un réseau électrique en rénovation.

It worked too well , to find a broken wire on my truck the noise went past it by 2' which had me puzzled but that's just the way it works , so go back about 2' after the noise stops . Good deal , don't know how other companies can charge $300

I used the product to trace unknown circuits. I wish I had this product when I was an apprentice electrician a half a century ago.