Klein Tools VDV500-820 Cable Tracer with Probe Tone Pro Kit for Telephone, Internet, Video, Data and Communications Cables

Item not working. All came with batteries pre installed and everything. Changed the batteries and still not working. This person that pupal this into a box full of tape, could not just test it before sending it out. Avoid this seller

Worked as advertised

Easy setup and accurate. Had two electrical outlets with no power. Used instrument to verify the second one was a slave to the first by toning the hot (black) and common (white). In an outlet box across the room that had power, found an unconnected cable that suspected was to the first dead outlet. Did not know why the cable was disconnected by the prior owner. Toned the black wire of that cable to outlet one hot (black) wire but noted it toned to the common (white) wire too. PROBLEM was short in cable, which is reason they disconnected it. If I didn’t use this tool, I may have connected the cable, powered it up and ended up with a fire before the breaker tripped. GREAT TOOL that I plan to use on my sprinkler system to trace wiring to a dead solenoid.

Has everything BUT the ability to Tone Live Networks.. works good and is very accurate.. for the money it is a great product.

Does what it should sends the tone to track down cat and tele cables.

Good product

When connected to the ground and phase of a wire, this tool produces a clear and unmistakable signal. I was able to make this tool work in a 4 gang box full of wires. There is no mistaking the target wire.

Purchased to trace some wires and it worked very well.

The toner is fine, however the speaker on the wand is incredibly weak. Even with the volume turned all the way up, you gotta have the wand physically touching the wire to get tone. And anyone who has toned cables knows how unhelpful that is when try to locate wire in bundles or on a rack full of patch panels.

We bought this at my workplace and have found it mostly useless. Ive always had great luck with Klein, but this tool is definitely not worth the money. Even on a short test cable, you can just barely hear the tone coming from the wand. Used it a few days ago trying to locate a cable in a closet and never could determine where the cable was due to this unit simply not putting out a strong tone. I would definitely not recommend purchasing this unit.