The new Probe Kit is indispensable for the wiring technician and easy to use. With a volume switch and a tone selector the Tone-Test set can be personally adapted for any work place. The Kit includes a high power tone generator with a short circuit checker and a tone tracing probe. Without destroying the insulation, the amplifier probe recognizes and traces wires or cables within a group. This cable locator can test CATV data, telephone, coax, modular and security cabling. This kit also comes with interchangeable flat/spade plastic probe tips and a round metallic probe tip.
Features:
LED Headlight
Headset Jack
Short circuit beeper
External warble-select
RJ11/45 coupler
Volume Control
Fat/spade plastic and round metallic probe tips
Alligator/ABN Connector Clips
Battery Included
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including phthalates, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information, go to www.p65warnings.ca.gov
A: A cable tester is a device used to test the signal strength or connection for a type of cable or network of cables. There are many different types of cable testers and each test specific cable or several different types.
Q: What does this product test?
A:
Locate and identify cable pairs
Identify and trace cable pairs
Diagnose the break point
Continuity
What are different types of cable testers?
A: Verification – A cable tester can verify whether or not the cables wired are properly connected and paired. This type of tester will reveal any problems in the cables.
Qualification – These types of testers cover everything that the verification equipment test but they will also tell you how well the cable supports data transfers.
Certification – These cable testers are the most sophisticated of the three. They cover the functions of both verification and qualification but they also can create a schematic of the entire network.