NOYAFA NF-826: The Secret Weapon to Locating Hidden Cables

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NOYAFA NF-826: The Secret Weapon to Locating Hidden Cables

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9 ай бұрын

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@causeimscottish 4 ай бұрын

Great job explaining this tool! And it's a heck of a lot easier using this than it is digging a million holes in my yard.

@Barry-Watson 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@abuckley6028 2 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks for taking the time

@Barry-Watson 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@pkerr32586 7 ай бұрын

Thanks man! Really appreciate the video. Very helpfully.

@Barry-Watson 7 ай бұрын

You bet!

@drewbush6535 Ай бұрын

wow great job explaining everything

@Barry-Watson Ай бұрын

Glad you liked it

@edwardparkison6576 3 ай бұрын

Great video!

@Barry-Watson 3 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

@lionoftruth777 3 ай бұрын

It would be helpful to see how you connected your cable to the transmitter/launcher

@Barry-Watson 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip, I'm sorry I didn't show that in more detail. The transmitter unit has a pair of leads coming out of it, like a typical voltmeter, and those leads have alligator clips or you could slide those off and just use straight probes. Typically you clip the black lead, ground, to a ground source and then attach the red lead (the signal) to whatever wire you wish to trace. When I traced the AC lines in the house I simply removed the alligator clips leaving two straight probes and carefully inserted those probes into the 2 flat blades of the electrical outlet. Alternatively I could have connected the black lead to the ground rather than the neutral. The transmitter module includes a voltmeter function, so if you are connecting to a hot line, it will display the voltage on the line and that is a useful feature for knowing that you have made a good connection.

@JDAfrica 8 ай бұрын

Can you use this as a cable/wire locator in cement wall? As you would a normal tone generator to locate cable run/direction and position. I’m keen to getting a device to help me locate cable from time to time - would be handy if it also did buried cable

@Barry-Watson 7 ай бұрын

I'm sure it could, it's quite sensitive and can find buried cable in a few feet of dirt. So as long as the cement wasn't ridiculously thick, I'm sure you'd sense the cable within

@JDAfrica 7 ай бұрын

@@Barry-Watson that’s wonderful news. Theoretically - you could also locate rebar, or copper pipe I’d imagine… anything that can carry a signal. Possibly water too (filled PVC pipe that has water inside)

@Barry-Watson 7 ай бұрын

I think you'd have some success. Something like rebar might be challenging because the conductor that you're putting a signal into is also touching the dirt and getting grounded. A typical wire you can put a signal through the wire and there is an insulator between that and the ground, so it doesn't just short out the trace signal so easily. Overall, I find that tool to work pretty effectively. Sometimes it can spray a fair amount of trace signal around so you may have to work with the signal drive, and the sensitivity to get closer to pinpoint accuracy.

@mrtechie6810 3 ай бұрын

How does the MS6818 compare to the Nofaya NF-826?

@Barry-Watson 3 ай бұрын

Looks similar, but I have not tried the MS6818.

@johndaniels3984 6 ай бұрын

How would I set this up to trace the path of an underground galvanized water main?

@Barry-Watson 6 ай бұрын

I think I'd use a ground spike with one probe and energize the pipe with the other. But if it's a metal pipe going directly through the earth, that's going to ground itself which will likely make it harder to detect. If there's an insulated ground wire running along with the pipe, I would energize that instead.

@johndaniels3984 6 ай бұрын

@Barry-Watson Thanks. That's what I was thinking. No tracer wire-- I might try to ground to a big piece of metal instead.

@drewbush6535 3 күн бұрын

i am looking for a wire under ground but i dont have a end to hook anything to

@Barry-Watson 3 күн бұрын

That would be a challenge, because you need to be able to inject a trace signal for this tool to detect the cable. If the wire is owned by a utility service, the utility companies are usually cooperative with helping you locate their underground cabling.

@drewbush6535 3 күн бұрын

you didnt really show how you use ground stud and alagator clips

@Barry-Watson 3 күн бұрын

Thanks, but it's really quite simple. You just push the ground probe spike into the dirt, and clip the negative lead from the trace transmitter unit to it with an alligator clip. Then connect the red lead from the transmitter onto a wire in your cable you are trying to trace and locate.