$1000 circuit tracers?

[chris kennedy]

Wow, I was just searching old threads looking to purchase a tester that could be used on disco's in addition to receptacles. I was looking to spend maybe 200-300.

I have seen the "Poor mans tester" with the coin flasher so lets not go there. I use a heat gun to do the same thing. I need something I can hook up to an energized disco and run around a building without taking two dozen panel covers off.

 

[quogueelectric]

If you hawk ebay you may find an amprobe 2005 for about 400 bucks once every month or two 2-3 hundred a couple of times a year. Pm me for advise on sniping theese products without creating a bidding war. I picked up mine for 400 with no test leads and no case. It uses standard test leads found at any radio shack.

 

[chris kennedy]

If you hawk ebay you may find an amprobe 2005 for about 400 bucks once every month or two 2-3 hundred a couple of times a year. Pm me for advise on sniping theese products without creating a bidding war. I picked up mine for 400 with no test leads and no case.

I was looking at that but again $1000 new. Something I may only use once every couple years, thats a hard sell.

It uses standard test leads found at any radio shack.

Are they cat III rated?

 

[quogueelectric]

I dont think radio shack leads have any cats. You could buy fluke and they will also fit. I dont know if the tracer is cat 3-5 rated either it has two transmitters and one is power off and one is power on. It will power itself with any source 9-600v ac or dc.

 

[electricalperson]

my greenlee was about 600 dollars

 

[EBFD6]

This is the model I have. I love it, never fails. Very easy to use, traces circuits up to 300 volts.

Amprobe circuit tracer

 

[chris kennedy]

This is the model I have. I love it, never fails. Very easy to use, traces circuits up to 300 volts.

Amprobe circuit tracer

How would you hook that up to an energized safety switch?

 

[EBFD6]

How would you hook that up to an energized safety switch?

It comes with 2 attachments that plug into the transmitter, one is the 3 prong plug attachment that you see in the picture. The other is an attachment w/ alligator clips. You just plug whichever attachment you want into the transmitter.

I'm a commercial/industrial service electrician and I use this tracer everyday on anything from a 480v (277v to ground, not phase to phase as the unit is only good >300v) disconnect to 120v recept.

 

[cadpoint]

From the same Amprobe tracer web page only these five are listed for Hot Work

 

[e57]

Before this goes deeper into the mysteries of ebay....

Wow, I was just searching old threads looking to purchase a tester that could be used on disco's in addition to receptacles. I was looking to spend maybe 200-300.

I have seen the "Poor mans tester" with the coin flasher so lets not go there. I use a heat gun to do the same thing. I need something I can hook up to an energized disco and run around a building without taking two dozen panel covers off.

I'm still trying to figure out what it is you want. < $1K to do what? That is normally I know where the main is - its finding stuff from the little end I most often want to do. Even the pricey stuff you have turn up the transmitter to pump the signal up - doing so at the main will only tell you that it is connected TO the main - you already know that???? Right?

That said - for the 200 range there is not much....

This one fits the bill - but IMO is not the best.....

Then again - ALL of the radio toner type of tracers pump a signal of a strength into the line, and it is up to you to determine if what you find it what you seek IMO. But on the low end of tracers - it will leave you wanting more of it someday. JMSO...

 

[mivey]

I was looking at that but again $1000 new. Something I may only use once every couple years, thats a hard sell.



Are they cat III rated?

I have an Ideal 61-958 and it is Cat III-1000V rated. I got it for $967.75, including a 61-830 (normally about $450).

One hard locate makes it worth it. Time is money. You may use it more than you think. It will follow circuits around a house to locate weird switch set-ups/feeds. I semi-retired my old fox & hound.