If you are using this in commercial applications then are you saying it will pick up the signal through EMT conduit?
@mikestoolfun23 күн бұрын
@@reiserx i have traced cct’t in EMT. I connect to the wire i am tracing and the common on a separate ground in a different conduit. I usually have an 80% success. I have also been able to locate ccts in buried pvc conduit. Hope this helps.
@user-nj2vt6kj8yАй бұрын
It sucks I do not recommend it
@danielc4361Ай бұрын
I used the et310 on several jobs and then got the et450- just fyi for those looking, the et310 is very accurate and far faster in identifying the exact circuit, because it automatically remembers the highest value from everything you show it in the panel. The more expensive et450 will allow you to trace high voltage and de-energized circuits, but you often have to play with the sensitivity, and if you do adjust it, you have to trace the whole panel again to find your maximum and visually look at every reading. The et350 was just 2 sweeps of the panel every time, and it would sniff that thing out. If you need the extra voltages above 240, or the extra sensitivity, get the et450. But I seriously miss using the et350. It was snappy and it felt way more like a fully automated process. It was either red or it wasn't, and it was awesome.
@danielc4361Ай бұрын
Forgot to mention if you need to trace de-energized wires or you need to trace through barriers, the et450 is it. That's why I got it in the first place. But I miss that snappy result at the panel with the et310 :)
@mikestoolfunАй бұрын
@@danielc4361 I keep both on hand.
@Beyros19 күн бұрын
I bought the et 450 and yes, you're right it took me awhile to find a breaker,very time consuming. I bought because of the high voltage and non energized feature, but again it was time consuming and at times frustrating so I returned it.!
@ObmanaCareАй бұрын
How good is this at finding lost neutrals or hots. Like you half the circuit is on and the other half has no power. Have you tried using this tool for that
@mikestoolfunАй бұрын
@@ObmanaCare (open neutral) I clamped one lead onto the neutral in a receptacle and clamped the other lead on a ground from a different cct. I was able to trace in a wall up to a light in the ceiling. The signal did not continue on. So i removed the light fixture and discovered the neutrals were not twisted and one was loose in the marratte which was causing the open neutral to occur. Basically the line came from the panel to the octagon in the ceiling and branched out from there. The homeowner waited until i figured out the problem that he recently changed the light fixture.
@arturoangelsanchez2 ай бұрын
So it only checks gfcis
@mikestoolfun2 ай бұрын
Not only
@deontelopez74902 ай бұрын
i know this is an old video but what lock do you use for the zippers? zipper holes are a bit small
@mikestoolfun2 ай бұрын
I dont lock it since most locks that would fit this can easily be broken.
@jstone12112 ай бұрын
I really like my tone generator to troubleshoot…
@yieldhog2 ай бұрын
I’m trying to determine how best to trace a low voltage line. A landscaper installed a low voltage wire through a small brick wall to feed a concrete flower pot. I have access to the wires that come out of the pot. Unfortunately, as I have found elsewhere, the contractor installed these in case a low voltage light was desired in the pot but left the other side in the ground disconnected. How can I find the other side without digging up my yard? Thanks
@sircartier94283 ай бұрын
Very good video
@FixItWithMe4 ай бұрын
I don’t have the et450, but I just bought the regular small circuit breaker finder. I had horrible results and it did not work for me. I have a large electric panel and two small panels all in a small closet. Does this affect the circuit breaker finder? Thanks!!!
@mikestoolfun4 ай бұрын
It can affect it if the smaller panels are sub panels to the larger one. Slowly run the receiver along each breaker in the first panel. Dont stop even if the receiver indicates the breaker you are passing over is potentially the one. Make sure to scan every breaker, and then go back to the start and do it again. This time it should narrow down the breaker with the second pass. I prefer the ET450 cause i can connect the common of the transmitter to a different ground or neutral , from the line i am trying to scan. This helps with the magnetic field not being cancelled out and makes for a stronger signal at the receiver. Note: when you are scanning a circuit and you use the neutral and line from the same circuit the magnetic field gets cancelled out and the signal will be weaker.
@LOB244 ай бұрын
Great job!
@craiglocke81165 ай бұрын
Does it work through air better? My pipes are in the ceiling 20' or more up
@mikestoolfun5 ай бұрын
I haven’t tried it. I have traced the conductor that was in the conduit by running the receiver along the pipe. The further away from the conductor, the weaker the signa
@greedygringoprospecting69415 ай бұрын
or telecom. i dont use the tool caddy. yet. holds all i need.
@Dane_V5 ай бұрын
Question: can you use this to find a break in dog fence that’s buried outside?
@tadmarshall27396 ай бұрын
It looks like you moved Klein's Circuit Breaker Finder to the side as you described using the ET450 to find a circuit breaker. Does this mean that you don't like the circuit breaker finder? For 120 volt circuits, it seems to work well but it can't handle the higher voltages you talked about with the ET450.
@mikestoolfun6 ай бұрын
The ET300 is handy to trace live ccts and fits nicely in my tool bag. I bring out the ET450 when I need to locate a stubborn cct, or de-energized one. They both work really well
@Gelo7606 ай бұрын
I’ve seen that the smaller ones say they need to be de energized before tracing. Is that not the case with this model ?
@mikestoolfun6 ай бұрын
The ET-450 will trace energized and de-energized ccts
@Gelo7606 ай бұрын
@@mikestoolfun thank you
@nicholaswilson5256 ай бұрын
Does this tracer kit work the other way around, taking wire off breaker, putting alligator clamps on hot/neutral and following wire through walls/floor?
@vincatzero6 ай бұрын
Would it work to find a single tracer wire that is buried with a water line?
@mikestoolfun6 ай бұрын
It might. I have roughly a 90% success rate with the tracer. Its not a high end tracer that costs $7000. Its a $250.00 tracer that works really well.
@Paine1376 ай бұрын
Did the same process in a recently purchased house, which led me into the attic where I found an open-ended 12/2 cable surrounded by insulation. For 20 years it sat like that, with live power. Complete insanity.
@mikestoolfun6 ай бұрын
Thats awesome that you were able to find that.. cheers
@user-yi7tj4us9d6 ай бұрын
If you hold the wand more vertical it works better or even turning it occasionally ive found helps
@mattheweveleigh63516 ай бұрын
I’m a tradesman, are the zippers strong and will they last for a few years?
@mikestoolfun6 ай бұрын
I’m an Electrician and this is my daily bag on commercial construction jobs. Its been a year since I made this video and the zipper works fine. One thing I wish this bag did have was wheels. The bag is amazing but can get heavy.
@mattheweveleigh63516 ай бұрын
@@mikestoolfun ok thanks for letting me know, I’m going to purchase one soon in Saint John New Brunswick.
@mikestoolfun6 ай бұрын
@@mattheweveleigh6351 Im in Ontario. 😎
@frogfootpt17 ай бұрын
Great video. Looks very interesting. How does it do if you want to find the breaker that it’s on? Can it isolate the breaker in a panel? Thank you.
@Dudeguymansir7 ай бұрын
I bought one to hepa vac my interior carpets after making a bunch a bunch of cedar dust in the garage. Hepa bag + hepa drum + m12 agitator bar = happy skin, eyes, nose, throat, and lungs. Is it as convenient as a standup vacuum cleaner for doing inside carpets? F*ck no! Does it do a better job of finally trapping and removing this damn irritating cedar dust? Absofuggin lootly.
@mikestoolfun7 ай бұрын
I use it mostly in commercial buildings on their carpet after a service call or Light Upgrade. I use it in residential homes on the rare occasion I get sent to do a service call. It does its job, but I agree. Its not a dyson. Lol
@Dudeguymansir7 ай бұрын
@@mikestoolfun I had used another vac that had a hepa filter over the exhaust, but I found it still kicked up irritating cedar dust, which would stay suspended for a while. Not all vacs with hepa filters provide actual hepa filtration, it seems. Similarly, Ridgid warns that the cyclonic hepa filter bag and the hepa filter drum don’t provide full hepa protection by themselves. But when used in tandem together, they do. Supposedly. This has been a night and day difference. I’m not looking for my inhaler after vacuuming like I have been recently!
@rodriguezpoolservice34477 ай бұрын
Just got this tool. Can’t wait to troubleshoot some electrical!
@mikestoolfun7 ай бұрын
Just remember that it has a big learning curve. A few guys I know get mad the first couple of times that they used it, but once they figured it out, it is now their go to tool for tracing. Cheers
@GTLee97 ай бұрын
Do you find that the volume on the ET450R receiver is sufficient?
@mikestoolfun7 ай бұрын
I find it fine. Mine is loud.
@terry78938 ай бұрын
So how much cement dust did you inhale since you weren't wearing a dust mask?
@terry78938 ай бұрын
@@mikestoolfun Expect to have lung problems when you get older if you have done that a lot. It will likely kill you. It's abrasive to your lungs.
@linkydinkydoodledumplin8 ай бұрын
Hello, I am wanting to know how to use this to trace pathway lights in a gated community. There is a transformer box on the side of each home, but each transformer powers the pathway lights to the house adjacent. I suppose they didn't want to wire under the driveway/concrete. How would I connect the Klein transmitter to trace the wires for a pathway light? Would I remove the wires from the transformer box and attach alligator connectors and de-engergize the circuit first? Thank you so much for any help.
@papatutti598 ай бұрын
A live demonstration would have been helpful.
@mikestoolfun8 ай бұрын
Keep scrolling my channel and you will find several “live” demonstrations. 😎😎
@vioreltanasa9888 ай бұрын
Can you help me with some explication for UNITEST BEHA TELARIS 16 EDITION
@arturoangelsanchez9 ай бұрын
This is the best out of all I seen
@mikestoolfun9 ай бұрын
Thank you
@superdutyscaler68239 ай бұрын
I loved these for the first week or so. Then they stopped charging, my supply house replaved them for me and the new ones only lasted about a mo th before they stopped charging also. Back to amazon for a cheap set of ear buds and they've been great for the fifteen bucks i spent on them
@Ghost777829 ай бұрын
Wtff😂😂😂
@matt40559 ай бұрын
How would you say this tracer compacted to the ones from ideal? At work we used to have the ideal tracers which work well but I don’t have access to them anymore so I was thinking of buying this one since it’s substantially cheaper
@skylark49019 ай бұрын
Do these work on an un-energized circuit? I have a wire in a wall that was hooked up and energized in an outlet, it went from my upstairs to my down stairs and it is no longer energized but I have no idea where it goes, it has no power itself when all breakers are on and all outlets and lights work down stairs. I will be closing up this wall soon and don't know what to do with this wire, my basement is finished and so not obvious where it goes, I'm not sure if it fed something that no longer exist? I'm not sure if I should just wire nut it and bury it? Any thoughts I'd appreciate it! Thanks
@mikestoolfun9 ай бұрын
It does trace de-energized circuits. A couple of things could have caused the wire to de-energize. 1. The wire was removed from its feed during your reno. Did you delete any outlets when you opened up the wall? 2. A mouse chewed through the wire. It can be possible that a mouse chewed the wire somewhere. Ive run into this many times. 3. The wire is one a light switch somewhere. Go around your whole house and turn on all the light switches. Ive also run into this scenario. The owner installed a light-switch and put the line on the load side. So when you turned off the lights two receptacles would turn off. If you have a voltage mete with resistance/continuity testing, see if you have continuity between the white and ground. That could be an indicator whether the wire is tied to a circuit that goes back to the panel.
@skylark49019 ай бұрын
@@mikestoolfun Awesome thanks for the reply! My description was probably bad, it's deenergized now because I unhooked from the outlet which I am moving, I just don't know where it goes to because nothing seems to be effect by me detaching it, another person mentioned doing a continuity test which I never thought of so thanks for that! Have a great Thanksgiving!🍻
@skylark49019 ай бұрын
@@mikestoolfun BTW, I get zero continuity when checking between white and ground, or any other configuration for that matter, thanks again
@mikestoolfun9 ай бұрын
@@skylark4901 if you are getting no continuity from neutral to ground, its cut somewhere. You could have an open neutral, or the wire does not run back to the panel. Theres a few more options to check but that involves going into your electrical panel. You would have to shut the power off to the electrical panel. (Shut main breaker off). Connect the black wire to the ground in that wire. (The wire that is hanging in your wall) MAKE SURE YOUR PANEL MAIN BREAKER IS TURNED OFF Go to your panel and check continuity from hot to ground on each breaker. (The black wire connected to the breaker) and see if you pick up continuity there. If you pick up continuity, go back to the wire in the wall, separate the ground from black, and check in the panel again to see if you still pick up continuity on the same breaker wire. Side note. If you have any ballast fixtures in your house, you could pick up a low resistance on the line wires. This is what I would do if I was tracing the wire and didnt have a circuit tracer, I do highly recommend you get an electrician for this. Cheers
@skylark49019 ай бұрын
@@mikestoolfun Thank you for all of this valuable information and your concerns, I did completely gut my upstairs and downstairs with the exception of that one wall upstairs and had most of the electrical redone by a licensed electrician, so who knows what happened there, I may try this but I decided at least I'll put it in a box with a plate so I can finish thins up for now. 👍 Thanks again.
@argenissolis64099 ай бұрын
Este equipo realiza la prueva aun que no este conectada la tierra fisica?
@Motorrad419 ай бұрын
too bad Klein does not test their own safety equipment. mine did not work out of the box, it would not power up. can you trust klein ??? its up to you.
@mikestoolfun9 ай бұрын
I absolutely trust Klein tools. I only ever had an issue with a flashlight after 6 months of use. Klein replaced it with no questions asked and its still going strong. Klein produces 1000’s of tools. Just like any other manufacturer, there will be issues. The difference is how the manufacturer handles the issue. Cheers
@KEVINSCONTRAPTION9 ай бұрын
What brand tick tracers are you using?
@mikestoolfun9 ай бұрын
Do you mean like a non-contact voltage tracer? I use the Klein Tools NCVT-3 Voltage Tester, when I absolutely need to. I generally just use my Fluke 376 true RMS Meter for testing circuits. Side note. Thank you for the follow. I’m trying to produce more content. I’m still learning to figure out my mojo. Cheers
@acor126811 ай бұрын
I mean come on, it’s the only 240v breaker in the panel 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@CryptoiNNERG11 ай бұрын
Why not use a metal 4x4 box with metal RS cover for the GFI you take on side
@WOOTIMSOAWESOME1111 Жыл бұрын
So I currently use the Milwaukee jobsite packout backpack, it’s been alright but there are a few major flaws with it that annoy me daily. It falls over easily, some of the lower pockets are just useless, main zipper is failing, and a few more gripes. I do really like the size of the packout backpack, but this looks about as big. Considering upgrading to this bag, how is it holding up?
@TheMikeyp60 Жыл бұрын
These suck
@OggyBleacher Жыл бұрын
did the wire reach the panel? did u add a junction box to extend it?? was there space for a breaker?
@edra1837 Жыл бұрын
Thankyou for sharing this video. Just a couple question here- 1. Can this tool also work for tracing the other end of Telephone line/ Internet cable and Signal cable ? 2. if it can trace Telephone line/ Internet cable and Signal cable , can the cable be on energized or or has to be de-energized? Thankyou
@edra1837 Жыл бұрын
@@mikestoolfun Thankyou for your information, Just another question: say if Point A = outlet box, and Point B is the breaker switch that is connected to it at the electric panel. This tool is very useful to track down which breaker(Point B) the circuit is connected to from an outlet box(Point A) by plugging the transmitter at Point A, and use the Reciever to find the correct breaker (Point B) at the electric panel. But can I do it the otherway around? For example, I connect the receiver to the breaker switch screw with the alligator clip at Point B, and use the reciever to track down the other end(Point A) which is either an open circuit or close circuit. will this work ? thankyou
@mikestoolfun Жыл бұрын
@@edra1837 you can take the wire off the breaker and attached the alligator clips to is and wonder around with the receiver until you find the out. This could take awhile. Especially in a large facility. (I mostly use this in commercial facilities)
@let9790 Жыл бұрын
is the GFCI box with the cord you made or you purchased?
@mikestoolfun Жыл бұрын
I made it for use on job sites. We are required to have GFCI protection onsite.
@ADRASTEIA03 Жыл бұрын
This is the 5th tile project we've done where we've removed the old tile before installing new tile, and the first one with this tool kzfaq.infoUgkxqqoaX03nrziKwF7Bjjcc71YzLEleMvOS . I want to cry for all the unnecessary work we've done in the past. With this tool, we removed tile surrounding a fireplace, as well as the hearth tile, set in loads of cement, in less than an hour. I highly recommend this tool. It was easy to use, and very satisfying watching the tile literally fall off the wall.
@tjmooney4181 Жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍
@jonathankenerson Жыл бұрын
I need to locate an underground pump tank that I'm guessing is 3' down - just dirt, no concrete or cover. Based on your experience do you think this could pick up a signal that deep?
@dongsongcokhuc Жыл бұрын
how much ?
@mikestoolfun Жыл бұрын
Around $250.00 Canadian (CAD) I purchased this over a year ago.