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Pros & Cons
Pros
The extech tg20 wire tracer and tone generator is an excellent tool for electricians, technicians and diy enthusiasts. This is a must for an electrician that are troubleshooting and need to locate the wire. It identifies coax cables (which i have a ha... Read More
Best toy ever. The continuity check lights up and works perfectly.
Cons
The product works reasonably well as long as you are not dealing with bundled wires. Lack of sensitivity makes this nearly worthless for anything but exposed wiring. Only good note is came with 2 9v batteries.
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Quality
As long as you aren’t expecting a prograde tool and just need it to fix a few small things around the house you should be fairl... Read More
The product works however the signal is weak after just 50 ft of wire
My issue was the apartment connected the same cable to the bottom and the top phone jack with the cat5 cable on the same wall
Found the junction box opening on the outside of the wall with the two perfectly good wires waiting to be hooked up and covered by stucco
Competitiveness
I had 8 cat5 cables going into the service box in the closet in my apartment
Working with cat5e i connected the tone generator directly to one pair of wires
At the other end the probe could find the signal however only if the pair of wires was on the same side of the cat5e cable as the probe
The 110v outlet hasnt worked in 2 years took 15 minutes to solve problem with this tool
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great, signal, good, same and easy. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there may be deception involved.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 74.7% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 1,860 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 25 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Make sure there is no power to the wire you are tracing
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Hook up one lead to the ground bare copper wire and the other one to the hot wire
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Tripped a hidden gfi pressure washing the house
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I spent two days trying to track a wire in a wall and ceiling and could not find the end
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Easy to use but it will be amaizing tool if it only had a auto shut off capability
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Better to fry the device than me
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When i first got it i was under the impression that you could just hook up one of the clips to one wire and trace it but the problem is that the other unconnected wire sort of “takes over” and the tone in the connected wire is super weak
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The product works however the signal is weak after just 50 ft of wire
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