Re: How to locate 22/4 jacketed buried in wall.

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"ABLE_1" <royboynospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bob,
>
> A small warning.  Make sure that the wire is open before connecting the
> driver and walking to the other end to find the buried wire.  Because if
> you don't you will not be ABLE to find the tone.  This will be due to the
> driver smoking a bit.
>
> I have to rebuild mine because of this little whoops.  I think the next
> one will have a 10ohm load resistor built in, but I don't know how much
> that will decrease the output.  Must experiment a little on this.
>
> So all should be aware before actually making MY type of tone generator.
>
> Good luck and have a good weekend.
>
> Les

I was talking about this very issue today with one of my guys, and we
figured a low current auto resetting circuit breaker would be just the
ticket.  Then we could kill it by shorting it just like with a regular tone
generator.


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