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Spent $150 on a fancy wire tracer and it couldn't find a single line in my own basement

I bought one of those Klein ET450 tracers after watching a YouTube guy make it look effortless. Spent a whole Saturday trying to trace a buried line in my basement in Cleveland, and it just kept beeping at random spots. Tried swapping batteries, read the manual twice, still useless. Anyone else had a tracer that just refused to work on older wiring?
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murphy.blair
Fancy tools always fail when you need them most, just like my new smart thermostat that won't connect to WiFi.
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holly_sanchez75
Blame the tool not the setup, @ryanh56 probably has his router in a closet. Smart stuff works fine if you take 5 minutes to learn it instead of whining about the price.
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ryanh56
ryanh562mo ago
Spent $150 and it couldn't even do its one job?
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