Underground pet fence wire break locaters?
Guys who need to find wire breaks the most, have been outdoor telephone line repairmen. You may be able to find a used tone generator & inductive amplifier probe on Amazon Auctions, CraigsList, eBay, Yahoo Auctions, … Different test methods: – use a whetstone bridge to accurately measure a wire’s resistance to ground, compare than with a resistance for a known length and compute the probably length to a ground-short (you repeat this from both end of a wire) ================================================= – use an audio or RF signal generator to energize the wire with an oscillating signal, and use a receiver (inductive amplifier tone probe or radio receiver – usually AM) to follow the signal until it drops, you repeat this procedure for both ends You can get a tone generator & inductive amplifier probe kit from “big box” home improvement centers (HomeDepot, Lowes, …) Amazon.Com also sells them for a little more. =============================================== – use a time domain
