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Vent: Got stranded on a job in St. Paul because I skimped on a cheap tester
Last Tuesday I was finishing a run for a new customer in a house built in the 50s. My cheap coax tester kept giving me green lights but the signal was dead once I hooked up the modem. I spent 2 hours pulling new lines and checking splitters before I grabbed my buddy's Fluke. Turns out my tester was showing false passes on a bad connector right at the wall plate. What kind of tester do you all trust for the weird old houses that pop up?
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the_joseph27d agoMost Upvoted
Whoa, that sound like a nightmare man. Tbh I had a similar thing happen with a cheap voltage tester once, not on a job but in my own basement. I kept getting a beep on an old switch and thought it was dead, ended up shocking myself pretty good when I touched the wires. It was just a bad ground in the tester itself. I tossed that thing in the trash and now I only use Klein Tools for anything electrical. Their stuff is worth the money.
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jadew6327d ago
Switching to Klein fixed the same issue for me too @the_joseph, night and day difference.
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