Triplett Fox & Hound HotWire 3388 Live Wire Circuit Tracing Kit with Tone Generator and Probe

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Triplett Fox & Hound HotWire 3388 Live Wire Circuit Tracing Kit with Tone Generator and Probe

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The triplet fox and hound wire tracer works flawlessly. Used to track down a wiring issue in my motorhome. Can be used in hvac tracing thermostat wires.

Steering this probe requires a bit of patience, trial and error, and disconnecting a few junction boxes along the way. Read the instructions--the operating instructions.

The probes are sealed in plastic bags. Not a scratch on it. Still had to dig around to find wire.

Cons

The fox device putting out the rf signal is not sheilded and therefore spills rf an an area six to ten feet in diameter. The unit spills so much rf that the crosstalkattaches itself to any wire in the junction, switch or outlet box and therefore shows... Read More

Don't be fooled. Kit is incomplete. What a waste. Definitely not recommended.

The low grade abs plastic feels especially chintzy too, like it's one drop away from busting wide open. The only decently made part is red case.

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Highlights

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Quality

Great tool good for locating wires in ceilings when not bundled

Works on energized circuits and can follow wire in wall with reasonable accuracy

I had cables from two circuits running very neatly next to each other for about 7 feet and the rf propagated from the circuit u... Read More

Wire had broken and fence not working

Price

Got it used from amazon for 30 off

Think i saved about eight hundred dollars on that

For the price i like the green one better

Shipping

I saved a lot of time and money not having to tearing out drywall trying to follow the path of cable

Packaging/appearance

I bought this and within 5 minutes i found an electrical box that had been plastered over

I would never have known based on the condition it seemed originally packaged

We found it and if you want to know it was in a downstairs ceiling light fixture attached to the fixture utility box

Competitiveness

The extreme detail compared to the shotgun blast you might say

Overview

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This product had a total of 563 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 8 2024.