GreatScott! | Cable Tracker || DIY or Buy || A useful tool for every electrician! @greatscottlab | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 2 days ago
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In this episode of DIY or Buy we will be having a closer look at a cable tracker. It is a tool that is used to locate wires in you wall. This is helpful to drill holes in your wall or to locate a fault in your wiring. I will show you how the sender and receiver functions and afterwards I will create a super crude, but functional DIY version in order to find out whether we should Buy the product or create our own DIY version. Let's get started!

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Music:
2011 Lookalike by Bartlebeats