Anyone used one of these?
www.amazon.com/Tool-Aid-25100-Short-Tester/dp/B000...U
Reviewed here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQ1dRPPWTU
Guy says its over-priced, as is everything, but I dunno where else you could easily source the inductive detector, as he alleges.
In action here, fairly convincingly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZrCrBx4uFY&t=73s
Something similar (maybe a bit better for heavy currents) plus some other nice gizmos/tricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQruaj-zy-8
I tried using the vehicle flasher as a fluctuating field generator (the commercial version has a thermal flasher in a can, hence the oldish caveat in the title, because this may not be compatible with fragile modern electronics) with a compass as the field detector,
No worky, not really surprising when one considers the car is made of steel.
Edited by edlithgow on 09/02/2023 at 12:06
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