How to find an open circuit or shorted wire the FAST easy way

wow how many years did i go without knowing about this tool !!!! Thanks for sharing

I bought the Southwire affordable version, but it doesn't show the instructions on how to use the fuse lead on the testing probe. Any ideas? I don't know how to use this device. I have a fuse that keeps popping my parking lights, so I'm not sure where to put the testing lead? In the breaker fuse box?

That's looking for an open not a short

$100 !!!!
hahahaha, F that!

Junk..... don't buy it. It won't work .

good info

Where can I purchase that tool

Indonesia hdr

Just so happens I do LV cabling; however, because I'm also restoring a 1992 Toyota ST185, I will use this method to troubleshoot engine / body wiring harness issues if they arise. Great idea, thumbs up!
TRUST !!

I know this is years later. But could I use this device for a motorcycle wiring harness?

This is meaningful material. A book I read with congruent topics was a milestone. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze

Ok. I’ll plead ignorance. How do you know where the shirt is. I just heard a lot of noice but what’s the difference when the short is found? Thanks.

Excellent video, Brian!

You didn't really tell me how to find the break in the line.

I have to probe my car, and was turned onto these types of tools. But now I know, that’s not great for probing

I wish you would demonstrate finding a short circuit

Short and open are two different things, you seem to have confused them. You are demonstrating open circuits , not shorts.

What's the name of the tool?

I am not so good with electric things, but I am trying to find a short circuit on my car, how should I do with this tool? Because the video shows how to find an open circuit, wich is not my case. Thanks!

These have gotten WAY cheaper! Under $20.

Terrible video haha. The example of see it stops beeping as you’re moving it a foot away from the wiring harness baha

But how does it find short? Signal everywhere....

I have a version of this tool made by another brand and did not think to use it. Bought to locate wires behind walls and it served its purpose Harbor freight has this tool for under 30 bucks.

Can you use this device to find short or broken wire in the house? My garage door shocks me when it rains

Would this work to find shorts in an electric fence?

Wait... can I use this on a wiring harness ON my bike? And how effective would it be?

Guess this is a good way if you can get to the harness.

I've learned a lot of things as an electrician but I never thought to use a toner to find a short because whether it was commercial/residential electrical automotive electrical, I never had to find many shorts.

I like using this example the best. If a surgeon can open someone's brain or heart and put it back together, then they must be very "smart" or "intelligent" right?


But if they can do that but they don't know how to change a flat tire, does that really make them smart? Just because they learned our were taught how to do one thing well, it just makes them good at that thing but not necessarily smart or intelligent by any means.

This young kid that worked at our gun part manufacturing/CNC warehouse was the programmer for the CNC machines and was by far the smartest kid in the room. He was autistic and has Asperger's too.

With that being said, he did so many stupid things, you wouldn't believe he was as smart as he was if you didn't already know.

Watch a video called, "college students can't answer basic questions," and you'll see what I mean.

Hi Brian: Please show us how the tool works to locate the short. I have a situation that the wires are partially shorted and small amount of current crosses. I want to locate the short instead of tearing up the wall.

HA Aliexpress has for 1/5 th the pr. Different brand but probably made in the same factory!

If you turn down the volume on the tool, it would work a lot better.

I need a few more beers to understand this.

Hello thanks for the video and help. I have a quick question. Will this allow me to find a ground short in my wiring in my harness. Since it’s not a break it just has a short?

As a retired Electrician with over 50 years in the trade I would find this just another useless tool. The sound would drive me crazy. Just a light would be enough.

Thank you! :)

Thanks for posting this.........wow 12 years ago......I have missed out on having this tool in the Automotive trade............Clayton

You didn't show how tne tool fiound the bad spot or the problem

Great tool Brian 🙌 I will buy my own because I trace lots of shorts on trucks at my shop

Thank you!

all this tool does is trace a wire. This tool can't be used to efficiently test for open circuits in bundled wiring. This tool can't ID shorts , no way. I use a tool similar to this all the time. In the industry this tool is known as a tracer.

Yes…
great video / great tool

Just not very accurate..

Great tool and very intelligent outro. I respect the want for feedback

I like your direct no nonsense style. thanks

Tool name?

I use my toner often to find shorts

It is not a short …… it is an open ……. A short blows a fuse. ….. an open is a break in the circuit ………

Although I don’t think it would be my go to tool, I can certainly think of times and places it would work well.

The first one like I ever saw was the Power Probe one, I believe the ECT3000 (too lazy to look it up right now). Anywhere comment on how this one compares to the Power Probe?

i beleive my car door harness is shorting out my alternator because it affects my alternator in my 99 trans am it s some where in my door idk mabe its my alternator but it does charge up n start after sitting