This is EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks for making this video and showing how easy it is to trace a wire to a breaker. This will hopefully help save me money on trying to fix my electrical issue.
Nice, I was wondering how to use my Sperry network tone generator to find a AC wire. Your approach makes total sense! Personally I am going to make a plug to connect the clips to instead of taking the outlet out. Just got to mark it with a huge warning 💥
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Great I just picked up the Klein tools version of this thing and finally I think I’ll be Abel to fix my outlets in my house that always are not working but the breaker still shows on lol 😂
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I have 2 bedrooms with no power. Purchased a new 15amp gfci breaker but it didn't fix my issue. The new one tripped as soon as I put it in and reconnected power. So I unplugged everything in both bedrooms and it does the same thing. I wonder if I have a bad outlet in one of the rooms that's causing the breaker to trip? Their are no gfci outlets in either of the rooms. Any advice would be helpful. -Thanks
If you have a dead outlet that is down line from a gfci outlet, but you don't know which gfci outlet, will this tone generator method still work at the circuit breaker box or would you have to try each gfci outlet individually? Thanks great video!
Does the tone generator make a noticeable sound in walls to help trace a wire? I'm talking through just lathe and plaster and/or drywall, in my case as I try to find out why I can't get my outlet to power.
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If testing a series of dead outlets and light switches in a Mobil home where one side works and the other side works where do i start. can i connect to any of the dead ones and trace it to the circuit breaker panel
That was good. I bought your recommended device. Now I just have to use it. I have (presumably) several dead circuits (entire banks of dead outlets). Does this sound like a symptom of a dead circuit breaker to you?
QUESTION: ONCE THE MAIN POWER IS TURNED OFF!!! Rather than taking the time to open the outlet box, would it be OK to use the male end of an old extension cord with the wires cut and bared a few inches out from the plug as a connection point for the tone generator? Good video, Thanks
@@handymanPF I know what you are saying. Probably best not to mention that alternative BUT... I would bet that many time conscious, seasoned electricians would opt for the bare wire solution.
I wonder if it will track a wire that's hidden behind sheet rock? I have an open somewhere that's caused a 2 rooms full of dead AC outlets and am not sure how the wire feeds. I'm thinking it goes to the ceiling in the bathroom to pick up power maybe from the fan circuit. Because it goes in the bathroom/dining room wall from the crawl space into an outlet. This looks quite a bit nicer than the very basic one harbor freight sells for about the same price. I can walk in and get the Harbor Freight one though.
Recently I had trouble finding the breaker switch in the panel that feeds electricity to gfci outlet that was not working at all. I replaced it and it works but I still do not know what circuit breaker controls that particular string of gfci controlled outlets. I bought the exact same devise you used in this video and I will do exactly as you showed in the video, kill electricity to the panel before putting tone to the outlet. Thank you very much for your good video. Keep up the good work. My back up thoughts were to plug in a light bulb to the gfci outlet and start turning on and off circuit breaker until the lite turns off and the gfci is working properly. Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Hi, thanks Customer has an outside flood lamp fixture that we can't find the switch for or the fixture was disconnected at some point when an extra bedroom was added to the house. There are a couple 3way switches we've located that don't seem to do anything... maybe totally unrelated. I screwed a circuit finder into the lamp holder and tested the circuit box and got nothing... Is that because the light fixture is "switched off" somewhere and or also the line is just dead?
Did you check to see if all the connections were tight, even the neutral wires? At the box and switches. Also check to see if there are any splice boxes. You could even have a loose wire nut somewhere. I hope this helps. Please let us know the outcome
@@handymanPF I haven't opened the exterior fixture box yet but I'll open it up tomorrow. After it goes into the soffit I have no idea where it goes. Thanks
How would you find where outlet is not working. All breakers are working , several outlets and switch not working. This is in a home built in the 1920's. Could you follow with probe to find breaks.?
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So then how do you locate the breaker for a hardwired appliance like an oven, cooktop, etc without going through and shutting each breaker off one at a time until you find it? Ovens are usually on high amp breakers but cooktops (for example) are not always the same.
Most all outside lites and plugs are on a ground fault circuitwith plug located in a covered box outside near the lites. Check to see if you can find one and check the buttons in the plug to see if it was tripped and engage the other button present on the plug to reset it. This may be your fix.
If I have a 15a/15a tandem breaker and only one of the 15 keeps popping, will this method still work for me? I am still a bit confused how to follow it through the walls though once have that tool... Let me try to explain my situation.I have a mass array of wires coming through the main panel and it's also installed inside cinder block wall in garage... I have tried replacing breaker, checking all the outlets i know are on that line for wiring or ground issues and still nothing. I even found one outdoor spotlight w/the cap off and wire all exposed. Fixed it and still doing the pop asap once turned on. Any advice appreciated!
Question, if you connect only the black wire to the tone generator, will you be able to trace the wire to the correct CB without flipping off all the CBs?
If you do not flip off all the breakers then the signal will travel through the leg in the main panel and will give you a signal in every circuit breaker in that leg. So by shutting off the circuit breakers, you are isolating all the breakers in which will help you identify which breaker is giving you the problem. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching and commenting. Please like share and subscribe.
Left me totally confused. What became of the dead wall outlet? Where was it dead at? I bought CBF/ Klein. Have (2) rooms w/o electrical current.(6) total- where is the problem? Burned out breaker? Where is the disconnect?
With that type of drywall ring you only needed to listen the 2 screws kitty corner and pushed up and 45 deg to right, you could access your wires with less taking apart
Does someone make a tone injector that is built into an AC plug form factor? Could wire up a pig-tail adapter, but a plug-in tone injector would be easier. Thank you.
I have one dead outlet, I've checked all other outlets and all are working fine, nothing is tripped. I'm not a electrician so I won't open that box. How much will a electrician charge to locate the bad breaker for this outlet?
Man, cut you and end of an old appliance cord and just hang your clips on that! no need to open the outlet!!! non-destructive testing, and look at the time savings.
@ j1mbobtech I always take things apart whenever something breaks,and wonder what to do with the cord. Thanks for the advice, and being that there is no power it will be 100% safe.
So I have a have an outlet with no power next to washer and dryer, but in the electric panel there’s a breaker label washer and dryer( it control the basement light and some outlets) but not giving power to the outlet...there’s drywall I check the GFI outlets making sure they are not trip
Interesting question, in which I do not have a definite answer for but I would not rule it out. Thanks for watching and commenting. Please like share and subscribe.
You have to cut the power just like you would for a multimeter in the ohm setting for testing resistance. There can be absolutely NO power to it at all. The thing with the tone generator is you have the one device you can attach to the problem circuit and use the receiver to find the other end of the wire through the wall or to the other end for several feet.
No problem. Thanks for watching and commenting. Here is the link to purchase this particular tone generator - amzn.to/30VIpwU other types of tone generators to choose from - amzn.to/2JYLjeV
An old tech showed me the easy and fast way. Make up a heavy cord with a 40 amp fuse and a heavy switch (50 or 100 amps) Set it up to dead short the circuit through the fuse. Plug it in and flip the switch momentarily and the breaker is found. (Only a trained professional should attempt this.) If the house burns down you know that the circuit beaker was defective. (When the tech showed me this it was with the bare Romex wires and a screw driver)
@ Handy Man Now that we have identified both ends of the wire (breaker/outlet), what do we use to trace the wire and find the faulty spot in between? PS My son works for a cable/internet provider, I'll see if he has this tool, but if not, I'll go out and buy it.
Personally, I would replace the whole wire for safety reasons. Especially if it’s behind a wall , because a mouse or other critter might be chewing on it in other spots also. I’m a better safe then sorry type of guy. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching and commenting. Please like share and subscribe. Also please hit the notification tab 🔔
@@handymanPF How do you replace the whole wire when it is behind a tiled wall, under a cabinet under a sink under the kitchen floor into the breaker box down below? Also does this thing detect power through sheet rock and tile?
@@billparker5457 cap off both and all ends and use cable raceway to run the new circuit . Here’s a video I made on how to do that th-cam.com/video/ievsNsj1qm0/w-d-xo.html And here is all the items I use in this video Cable raceway amzn.to/2ZEG4sL Raceway wall light switch amzn.to/32xB7DI Voltage sensing pen amzn.to/3eEbOSR Magnetic level amzn.to/2OCXjEd Cordless drill amzn.to/2DO2SO0 Wood screws amzn.to/2ZF2yd5 I hope this helps
@@billparker5457 I would recommend that you hire an electrician. Because there is only so much I can do through the comment section without actually being there and seeing your project. A professional electrician would know exactly what to do.
Someone stripped my wiring from the attic. They only cut a few wires. How can I trace where they came from? I still have the wires they left that they were going to still.
Yes, If you want to follow a wires path there are many tracers that can be used on a live wire. Something like the Amprobe AT-6010 can be used on either hot or deenergized circuits. If the wiring is functional and you just want to find the breaker there are many breaker locators on the market. I'm not familiar with your countries wiring so can't recommend any in particular.
Hello , I have an dead outlet in the living room area , one light in the hallway and a dead oultet in the bathroom. the bathroom light works but not the outlet. What are your suggestions to this problem.
First thing you want to do is test the line wires to see if there is voltage present. If there is then the device either is bad or had a loose connection.
I pulled out an old electric outlet, to replace it with a GFCI. I accidentally touched some part of the old outlet while removing it on the metal box, and saw a small spark. (I thought the fuse was out, but maybe I had the wrong fuse out). Now, I am reading 14 volts from hot to neutral, and from hot to the metal box(ground). I've pulled every fuse in the panel, and still see 14 volts! Note, the outlet was working fine before my accident (although the hot/neutral were reversed). What did I do break when that old receptacle sparked? Did I burn/short a wire, or junction? How do I find the problem. I cannot use continuity tests since I have 14 volts present. Help!
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I watched the video to hear it with my son. But I can’t locate the exact time it sounded like that. Haha . Could you pin point what time in the video you heard it please? Regardless, I greatly appreciate your comment. Please like share and subscribe. Thanks for watching
had to HURRY with comments I've never been 1st at anything dont like the company u have to keep or attitudes so no big deal being 5556 until the #1 position is uncontested
There was no problem with this circuit. It was a demonstration. There are quite a few things that can be wrong with a circuit, not enough time to cover in a short video. But this video will help you in the process of diagnosing the issue. Thanks for watching and commenting.
There’s always one guy. Thanks Handyman for your help. Your description of the video was exactly what was done. I have this exact issue going on in a clients house and hope it’s the circuit breaker
This is EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks for making this video and showing how easy it is to trace a wire to a breaker. This will hopefully help save me money on trying to fix my electrical issue.
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the ol' Fox and Hound! good job!
Nice, I was wondering how to use my Sperry network tone generator to find a AC wire. Your approach makes total sense! Personally I am going to make a plug to connect the clips to instead of taking the outlet out. Just got to mark it with a huge warning 💥
Great idea .. wonder if I can just cut off extension cord plug end expose those cut off wires and hook gator clips to them
yes, it helps, thank you; I was just worried about destroying my tools. POWER EVERYTHING OFF!!!
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YOU HELPED BIG TIME THANK YOU AND WELL PRESENTED DOWN THE EARTH EXPLAINED TUTORIAL!!!!!!
This is Actually A Really HELPFUL video. With some useful tips 👌 These tools are amazing , but can be a little difficult if you never used one before.
Great how to. Getting ready to replace my old fuse box in the garage with a circuit panel and I think I will trace all my lines so I can label them.
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Thanks I definitely needed one of those find the circuit wire for a room with 3 Dead Outlets.
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Great tutorial, on finding dead circuits!!! Thanks!
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Awesome video - exactly what I was hoping to find! Thank you
Thank you for posting this. I have am having the same exact issue.
Great I just picked up the Klein tools version of this thing and finally I think I’ll be Abel to fix my outlets in my house that always are not working but the breaker still shows on lol 😂
Same issue, was it helpful??
Great video .. how did you connect alligator clips to the outlet please or does it matter
This is exactly what i need but in reverse
This was great. I really never thought off killing the mains then using a tone generator. Now I just have to find mine.
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How does it find break if the power is shut off? Im still not understanding that
@@floridagirl9064 Tone generators create a radio frequency on the line. The probe picks it up and plays a tone the closer you get to the wire
Hey thats pretty cool 😎 bro !
Thanks, your video was exactly what I needed to see.
Helpful device.i would ring through but now I'm going to try this tool
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Amazing!
We are rehabbing a mobike home..struggling to find the dead short....the breaker keeps tripping...
I do this all the time good work I need one like that
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Thank me to you your is the best out of 100s
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Kiss...that works ..thank u..
I have 2 bedrooms with no power. Purchased a new 15amp gfci breaker but it didn't fix my issue. The new one tripped as soon as I put it in and reconnected power. So I unplugged everything in both bedrooms and it does the same thing. I wonder if I have a bad outlet in one of the rooms that's causing the breaker to trip? Their are no gfci outlets in either of the rooms. Any advice would be helpful. -Thanks
If you have a dead outlet that is down line from a gfci outlet, but you don't know which gfci outlet, will this tone generator method still work at the circuit breaker box or would you have to try each gfci outlet individually? Thanks great video!
Does the tone generator make a noticeable sound in walls to help trace a wire? I'm talking through just lathe and plaster and/or drywall, in my case as I try to find out why I can't get my outlet to power.
love it thanks for ur time patients and visual along w/ verbal explanations
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Thanks nice God Bless you
Thank you very much,it helps a lot!
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If testing a series of dead outlets and light switches in a Mobil home where one side works and the other side works where do i start. can i connect to any of the dead ones and trace it to the circuit breaker panel
Thank you for posting a great video .
I’m glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching and commenting. I greatly appreciate it.
That was good. I bought your recommended device. Now I just have to use it. I have (presumably) several dead circuits (entire banks of dead outlets). Does this sound like a symptom of a dead circuit breaker to you?
Thanks man I appreciate the information. Straight to the point.
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Super. 💙 T.E.N.
Do you attach both wires to the outlet neutral and hot!
Will this work tracing wire in wall? Looks like no?
QUESTION: ONCE THE MAIN POWER IS TURNED OFF!!! Rather than taking the time to open the outlet box, would it be OK to use the male end of an old extension cord with the wires cut and bared a few inches out from the plug as a connection point for the tone generator? Good video, Thanks
I do. But I was kind of skeptical about showing people that method. I hold a lot of stuff back because of that reason.
@@handymanPF I know what you are saying. Probably best not to mention that alternative BUT... I would bet that many time conscious, seasoned electricians would opt for the bare wire solution.
Can you run down the neutral wire the same way ?
I wonder if it will track a wire that's hidden behind sheet rock? I have an open somewhere that's caused a 2 rooms full of dead AC outlets and am not sure how the wire feeds. I'm thinking it goes to the ceiling in the bathroom to pick up power maybe from the fan circuit.
Because it goes in the bathroom/dining room wall from the crawl space into an outlet.
This looks quite a bit nicer than the very basic one harbor freight sells for about the same price. I can walk in and get the Harbor Freight one though.
I have the same question. Did you find out the answer??
@@trevorswansonbtw Yes I had a wire blown in two where a rat had nibbled on it where it laid touching a cast iron vent pipe for the bathroom.
Great info. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Surprising way to find a dead circuit! Cool! May come in handy some day.
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Recently I had trouble finding the breaker switch in the panel that feeds electricity to gfci outlet that was not working at all. I replaced it and it works but I still do not know what circuit breaker controls that particular string of gfci controlled outlets. I bought the exact same devise you used in this video and I will do exactly as you showed in the video, kill electricity to the panel before putting tone to the outlet. Thank you very much for your good video. Keep up the good work. My back up thoughts were to plug in a light bulb to the gfci outlet and start turning on and off circuit breaker until the lite turns off and the gfci is working properly. Your thoughts would be appreciated.
What if you don't have that specific device what other devices is there that works just as fine or better
Hi, thanks
Customer has an outside flood lamp fixture that we can't find the switch for or the fixture was disconnected at some point when an extra bedroom was added to the house.
There are a couple 3way switches we've located that don't seem to do anything... maybe totally unrelated.
I screwed a circuit finder into the lamp holder and tested the circuit box and got nothing...
Is that because the light fixture is "switched off" somewhere and or also the line is just dead?
Did you check to see if all the connections were tight, even the neutral wires? At the box and switches. Also check to see if there are any splice boxes. You could even have a loose wire nut somewhere. I hope this helps. Please let us know the outcome
@@handymanPF
I haven't opened the exterior fixture box yet but I'll open it up tomorrow.
After it goes into the soffit I have no idea where it goes.
Thanks
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Does it make the noise we couldn't hear from the outlet portion of the tool or the hand held part?
Hand held part
How would you find where outlet is not working. All breakers are working , several outlets and switch not working. This is in a home built in the 1920's. Could you follow with probe to find breaks.?
Thank you, all the other ones are for working circuits! why the heck would I want to trace a live circuit I can just flip the damn breakers
I had a minor roof leak which caused water to drip through a kitchen chandelier. I'm in hell. I'll try this. Ty
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Hello Handyman which function should you use when doing this test,thx in advance.
So then how do you locate the breaker for a hardwired appliance like an oven, cooktop, etc without going through and shutting each breaker off one at a time until you find it? Ovens are usually on high amp breakers but cooktops (for example) are not always the same.
Great tutorial👍
Would this tool help me to figure why both flood exterior lights on each side of the house and under one switch don’t work?
Thank you
Most all outside lites and plugs are on a ground fault circuitwith plug located in a covered box outside near the lites. Check to see if you can find one and check the buttons in the plug to see if it was tripped and engage the other button present on the plug to reset it. This may be your fix.
@@bobgieser2943 what if they arent?
If I have a 15a/15a tandem breaker and only one of the 15 keeps popping, will this method still work for me? I am still a bit confused how to follow it through the walls though once have that tool...
Let me try to explain my situation.I have a mass array of wires coming through the main panel and it's also installed inside cinder block wall in garage... I have tried replacing breaker, checking all the outlets i know are on that line for wiring or ground issues and still nothing. I even found one outdoor spotlight w/the cap off and wire all exposed. Fixed it and still doing the pop asap once turned on. Any advice appreciated!
Question, if you connect only the black wire to the tone generator, will you be able to trace the wire to the correct CB without flipping off all the CBs?
If you do not flip off all the breakers then the signal will travel through the leg in the main panel and will give you a signal in every circuit breaker in that leg. So by shutting off the circuit breakers, you are isolating all the breakers in which will help you identify which breaker is giving you the problem. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching and commenting. Please like share and subscribe.
Left me totally confused. What became of the dead wall outlet? Where was it dead at? I bought CBF/ Klein.
Have (2) rooms w/o electrical current.(6) total- where is the problem? Burned out breaker? Where is the disconnect?
Can this help determine which neutral is which?
Seeing as how everything should be dead after turning off the main power. Does polarity matter?
Yes Polarity matters.
With that type of drywall ring you only needed to listen the 2 screws kitty corner and pushed up and 45 deg to right, you could access your wires with less taking apart
Great Idea!!!!
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Does someone make a tone injector that is built into an AC plug form factor? Could wire up a pig-tail adapter, but a plug-in tone injector would be easier. Thank you.
I have one dead outlet, I've checked all other outlets and all are working fine, nothing is tripped. I'm not a electrician so I won't open that box. How much will a electrician charge to locate the bad breaker for this outlet?
Man, cut you and end of an old appliance cord and just hang your clips on that! no need to open the outlet!!!
non-destructive testing, and look at the time savings.
@ j1mbobtech I always take things apart whenever something breaks,and wonder what to do with the cord. Thanks for the advice, and being that there is no power it will be 100% safe.
So I have a have an outlet with no power next to washer and dryer, but in the electric panel there’s a breaker label washer and dryer( it control the basement light and some outlets) but not giving power to the outlet...there’s drywall I check the GFI outlets making sure they are not trip
Interesting. Wonder if that tool could be used to trace circuits on an electronic appliance board.
I am thinking it could to some extent.
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Sir, is it safe to the tone generator? Thank you very much for this video. But unfortunately my tool for tracing circuit is only the multimeter.
You have to cut the power just like you would for a multimeter in the ohm setting for testing resistance. There can be absolutely NO power to it at all. The thing with the tone generator is you have the one device you can attach to the problem circuit and use the receiver to find the other end of the wire through the wall or to the other end for several feet.
@@handymanPF Thank you Sir. Hopefully, the company I worked have this kind of tool.
Thanks for the video. Great tool. Where is the link to where to buy the tool?
No problem. Thanks for watching and commenting. Here is the link to purchase this particular tone generator -
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other types of tone generators to choose from -
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An old tech showed me the easy and fast way. Make up a heavy cord with a 40 amp fuse and a heavy switch (50 or 100 amps) Set it up to dead short the circuit through the fuse. Plug it in and flip the switch momentarily and the breaker is found. (Only a trained professional should attempt this.) If the house burns down you know that the circuit beaker was defective. (When the tech showed me this it was with the bare Romex wires and a screw driver)
I've been dead shorting circuits for years to find breakers...takes seconds
@ Handy Man Now that we have identified both ends of the wire (breaker/outlet), what do we use to trace the wire and find the faulty spot in between?
PS My son works for a cable/internet provider, I'll see if he has this tool, but if not, I'll go out and buy it.
Personally, I would replace the whole wire for safety reasons. Especially if it’s behind a wall , because a mouse or other critter might be chewing on it in other spots also. I’m a better safe then sorry type of guy. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching and commenting. Please like share and subscribe. Also please hit the notification tab 🔔
@@handymanPF How do you replace the whole wire when it is behind a tiled wall, under a cabinet under a sink under the kitchen floor into the breaker box down below? Also does this thing detect power through sheet rock and tile?
@@billparker5457 cap off both and all ends and use cable raceway to run the new circuit . Here’s a video I made on how to do that
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Raceway wall light switch amzn.to/32xB7DI
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I hope this helps
@@handymanPF It's got to be in the wall.
@@billparker5457 I would recommend that you hire an electrician. Because there is only so much I can do through the comment section without actually being there and seeing your project. A professional electrician would know exactly what to do.
is there another way to locate the wires I found the black wire but I cant find the white wire?
Someone stripped my wiring from the attic. They only cut a few wires.
How can I trace where they came from? I still have the wires they left that they were going to still.
Mr. Handy,Thank you for helping us.
My question is:
Is there any device can works with electricity in the wires?
Greetings from 🇸🇦
Yes, If you want to follow a wires path there are many tracers that can be used on a live wire. Something like the Amprobe AT-6010 can be used on either hot or deenergized circuits. If the wiring is functional and you just want to find the breaker there are many breaker locators on the market. I'm not familiar with your countries wiring so can't recommend any in particular.
@@robb1165
Thank you so much..
So connect the red clip to the hot and black to neutral on plug? That part of the video kind of skips
Yes
What would be some of the common problems of a dwad circuit? Loose wire perhaps?
What happens when I find the Breaker to the outlet & the outlets still Not working.
Hello , I have an dead outlet in the living room area , one light in the hallway and a dead oultet in the bathroom. the bathroom light works but not the outlet. What are your suggestions to this problem.
First thing you want to do is test the line wires to see if there is voltage present. If there is then the device either is bad or had a loose connection.
Do I have to watch you remove the cover?
I pulled out an old electric outlet, to replace it with a GFCI.
I accidentally touched some part of the old outlet while removing it on the metal box, and saw a small spark. (I thought the fuse was out, but maybe I had the wrong fuse out).
Now, I am reading 14 volts from hot to neutral, and from hot to the metal box(ground). I've pulled every fuse in the panel, and still see 14 volts!
Note, the outlet was working fine before my accident (although the hot/neutral were reversed).
What did I do break when that old receptacle sparked? Did I burn/short a wire, or junction? How do I find the problem. I cannot use continuity tests since I have 14 volts present. Help!
did you find out ?
Where can I'm buy the RJ11 brot nice video
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Did anyone else laugh when it sounded like a dying bird?
I watched the video to hear it with my son. But I can’t locate the exact time it sounded like that. Haha . Could you pin point what time in the video you heard it please? Regardless, I greatly appreciate your comment. Please like share and subscribe. Thanks for watching
I’ve never heard a little birdie die! Up on a tree where they die.
@@bertharuiz1225 I have struck birds with my car, I don't hear them die because my wife is screaming.
What if you can't turn all the brakes off?
So what was the fix for this??
This was not broken, it was just a demonstration on an existing circuit.
Show where you attach the alligator clips!!
Go to 3:15 of the video. It’s somewhat unclear but what you do is attach them to the sides of the wire connection tabs. I hope this helps
Let's start with 120v
my first at number. 1
had to HURRY with comments I've never been 1st at anything dont like the company u have to keep or attitudes so no big deal being 5556 until the #1 position is uncontested
Haha . Thanks I appreciate it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I have three dead outlets and all the breakers are on.
Handy Man ,..So you found the circuit problem but didn't explain how to fix it . Not much good to me if the problem isn't corrected .
There was no problem with this circuit. It was a demonstration. There are quite a few things that can be wrong with a circuit, not enough time to cover in a short video. But this video will help you in the process of diagnosing the issue. Thanks for watching and commenting.
There’s always one guy. Thanks Handyman for your help. Your description of the video was exactly what was done. I have this exact issue going on in a clients house and hope it’s the circuit breaker
Whats a 110v this isn't the 1920's
Turn the sensitivity down
Too much work already. Just make a circuit buster and plug it into the outlet and you’ll find out which breaker is what in a second.
How would that work with a dead circuit?
Dude - there is NO difference in the tones. And, if there is and you can’t hear it in the video - what’s the point of the video? Useless
Or you could just plug in a lamp and then flip the breaker. What a waste of time.
Try the new Ideal Armor bands! They are better than tape abd can be reused
What happens when I find the Breaker to the outlet & the outlets still Not working.