Use the ground instead of neutral path on tracing back to breakers. Helps reduce false readings.
I use the remote ground provided but still get a strong signal on wrong breaker.... will try it again tomorrow before I write it of 100%
Amprobe got bought out by Fluke. They had a much better tracer at double the price, but discontinued it.
That is unfortunate news. The Amprobe Pasar (spelling?) was the best tracer made.
That’s the one I have, the receiver antenna tends to break loose and quite working after 5-10 years, starting to get hard to find replacement parts. The first one I bought was back in the mid 80’s. Did a lot of computer room work, and for some reason they get po’ed if you turn off the wrong breaker!
Better a good live tracer than a mediocre live/dead. A former boss had a Greenlee that worked well for him but I never had much luck with it. He had better than average hearing & could read the beeps very well. I hear ok but it on some tones.
All tracers do this, since signal travels thru several breakers along the bus, and some breakers resonate better than others.
Those that draw a current pulse do not, the dead/live tracers do not work on that principle, so they are much more susceptible to false readings.
I presume those require an amp clamp, which wont fit around breakers ?
I’ve shorted my share of circuits with a wire but can’t get caught doing it now. We’re in a different world today.
No, they draw a pulse off the live circuit, and the hand held receiver picks up that pulse, kinda like a radio wave. The one drawback, is some computers have close to the same frequency, which can bury the pulse and causes a lot of noise, but not at the same pulse rate.
Now I'm curious, what is it ?
