Fluke PRO3000 Tone and Probe Kit by FLUKE NETWORKS
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Digital camera reviews of Fluke PRO3000 Tone and Probe Kit
Digital camera Review: A big time saver
Summary: 5 Stars
This tool has paid for itself in a short time, allowing me to trace wires of several different types (CAT3, CAT5, coax, speaker) that were run through walls in the house I just purchased. Most of the wires were not labeled, so my first job was to identify were they were all running. The PRO3000 was just the tool I needed to get this job done quickly and accurately.Digital camera Review: Beats the outdate Progressive Toner kit.
Summary: 5 Stars
Im a Cable technician for a communications company. Ive been using the Progressive toner kit for years. I broke the wand and desided to change it up.. Not only is this kit far louder and sensitive, its has many features which the other brand doesnt.. Finally, it was $20 cheaper as well.
Fluke is the leader in Electronic test equiptment. I should have threw my Progressive kit into the trash long ago!
Digital camera Review: CS
Summary: 4 Stars
For the price this unit is holding its own as any of its expensive counterparts.Digital camera Review: Circuit tracer
Summary: 5 Stars
I am an Electrical contractor & somtimes need to trace wires or cables. The Pro3000 is by far the best tool I have used for this.Digital camera Review: Could be great with a few modifications
Summary: 3 Stars
I have never used another tone and probe kit but I have read reviews of other brands and many say they aren't sensitive enough to work behind walls. I think this one would work fine behind walls because it can sense from more than 1'-1.5' away from the wire. It also has a neat feature that if you short the wire your are connected to it will change the pattern of the tone letting you know for sure you have the correct wire. However this device falls short in two areas.
1) Build quality: like another review stated the volume thumb wheel knob has little raised spots so you can get some friction with the your thumb to increase the volume. This is great...however the body of the device is a bit small and when the raised areas on the knob try to go past the body of the probe, it hangs and you have to push really hard to get it to snap past it. I will need to take the probe apart and file off a bit of the body for more clearance.
2) Connectors: This device only has the bare wire clips and an old telephone RJ11. No RJ45, no coax, or any other type of connection. Another brand I almost purchased that is twenty five dollars less came with RJ45, RJ11, Coax, bare wire clips, and even fuse blade type ends so that you can plug in to a fuse box on an automobile. So of you want to connect to an ethernet receptacle on the wall you would have to cut an ethernet cable and pull out the bare wires to clip to. Also the same for Coax.
So this device is twenty five dollars more and I am going to have to make special cables for testing coax, rj45, and automobile fuse box....and I will have to disassemble the probe to fix the volume knob. If I knew the other device was a sensitive as this one then I would just send this back and get the Sperry ET64220. Also, the Sperry has audible and visual indication. This fluke only has audible.