Features:

  • [Professional Wire Tracker] This instrument is a multi-functional handheld cable testing tool. It has wide application with reinforced cable types and multiple functions. It is a necessary testing tool for telecommunication engineering, wire engineering and network maintenance person
  • [Wire Tracing] The capable of quickly finding the required line pairs among numerous ones. It is adaptable to network cable RJ45 terminal, telephone line RJ11 terminal, and other metal wires via the provided clip adapter
  • [Network Cable Collation] Tests physical connection status of network cable, such as open circuit, short connection, miswire and reverse connection
  • [Line Level test, and Status of Telephone Line Test] The emitter can be used to judge Line Level, Positive and Negative Polarity, TIP and RING line, and whether the telephone line is idle, ringing or off-hook
  • [Continuity Checking] This tool can check continuity of the tested wire. NOTE: The TONE and CONT indicators do not indicate the working status but the measuring result
Does the job at a value price

Tool does exactly what it should do and has helped with a small project that I am working on. I would consider it an essential item to have if you own a home where the telecom cables have not been well marked/labeled.

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Reliably and inexpensively provides basic wiring verification.

This tool will allow you to easily find a particular cable among many using its toner function. Next it can verify that there is continuity of of all conductors from one end to the other, and which positions they are wired in one end to the other. It has an RJ45 & a RJ11 jack so you can do Ethernet or phone cable testing. Besides the toning and continuity testing, it has a mode to test for proper polarity on phone lines and jacks. I have only used this tool with Ethernet wiring thus far. It showed me a few boo-boos I made (out of about 40 IDCs I recently did). This allowed me to home right in on what I needed to correct so that things worked flawlessly the first time I actually hooked equipment up. This tool will not measure any kind of throughput rating and thus cannot certify anything for any given network specification, it just ensures pin continuity end to end. For DIYers, hobbyists, home use, etc., this is not a problem. Just use quality certified cabling, ensure your runs are conservatively under the maximum length, and keep the untwisting of pairs to a minimum and you'll be golden. If you are a professional installer or in any other situation where it is critical that all infrastructure meets or exceeds standards with no room for doubt at all, I suggest to just spend the several hundred dollars and buy professional grade tools and equipment which can test and certify everything.

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