An ac-based continuity tester for front-line test-and-repair jobs provides a simple go/no-go test for localizing faults in multiconductor cables (Figure 1). Open circuits are more likely to occur at ...

Before you buy a cable tester, you need to decide what it should achieve. At the lowest level, a tester identifies shorts and opens resulting from mistakes made when the cable was fabricated or caused ...

As part of my basement finishing project, I ran 7.2 speaker cables and 4 HDMI drops from my AV closet to the theater room. I don't have speakers or a display yet to test them and we are having drywall ...

The CT20 is a two-part system consisting of a master continuity tester/transmitter and a two lead, bi-color (red/green) LED remote probe. The continuity tester/transmitter is used for local continuity ...

The Arduwire UNO is an innovative shield designed for the Arduino UNO development board. This shield enables users to perform a variety of tests on cables and harnesses, including continuity, open ...

All it takes is a kink in the cable, somebody running over it with their office chair, or a poor crimping job on one end (like leaving way too much wire untwisted) to make the cable not work. I'd ...

A new hyper-scale data center was built in rural New Jersey that’s served by more than 100 25kV cables. Six months into operation, a cable termination failed catastrophically, and the forensic ...