Originally Posted by
Jim Becker
Interesting. I've been using the same cheap one for many years and other than needing to tweek the sensitivity a bit on "older wiring", it works like a champ! Couldn't have cost me much more than fifty bucks at the 'borg when I bought it.
I will admit Jim that many of my panels have over 100 breakers in them and I think this lends to confusing the thing. But I even brought the second one home and tried it here. It would not locate a correct breaker with any reliable accuracy even when I knew which breaker it should be beeping over.
We hire many different mechanical contractor on campus. One day I was shooting the breeze with one and noticed he had one of the "gimmicks" laying in a pile of "stuff" in the front corner of his van. I asked him how he liked it. He just snickered and asked me why I thought it was laying in a pile of junk.
Until someone demonstrates a circuit tracer that works, I won't be wasting any more of my employers money on one.
It's a vintage trailer thing. If ya gotta ask, ya won't understand.
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