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Master Electrician Dad and Apprentice Son go on a call and troubleshoot a missing wire, thoughts?

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Hendy The Sparky

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This project demonstrates how a master electrician uses specialized tools, a Greenlee Sniffer Tool and a clamp-on multimeter, to effectively troubleshoot and locate a missing electrical circuit within a building's wiring system. The process involves generating a signal on the target wire, tracing its path through walls, and performing continuity tests to confirm connections, ultimately leading to the circuit's origin in the electrical panel.

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The signal's getting stronger. Check over here. When I use the sniffer, I want to attach one wire to ground and the other wire to what the wire is that I want to locate, which in this case it's this one. Okay. So now I if I come close to this, watch. Look how far away I am. I hit reset. Watch as I get close. That's how strong this is. >> Yeah. What I want to do now is find >> Power could be coming from that switch? Well, we can put our amp probe here. We can we can actually take our meter and we can go in between the two. Okay. Oh, continuity test. >> Yeah. You have long enough leads? Yeah, it should be. I can hold one? Yeah. All right. Which wire are we going to? Uh you can go to any the top wire. This is why I don't like these for a beginner electrician cuz you really need to know how to use this. So I'm going to put this automatically on continuity. Okay. Okay. So I'm going to go on my wire. It'll beep, right? If it's a Well, let's put them together to make sure, right? Watch. Yep. >> Yep. So it's top two wires again. Nothing? Nothing? >> Okay. So we got to find out where that circuit is being fed from. Okay. Could it be the outlet? Could it Could it be this outlet? Uh no, there's only one wire in that outlet. It could be a home run that's not ready yet to be cuz there's only one wire in this and this is a 12 gauge. So that's a small appliance cuz this is the dining room. So this is a different room. This is lighting. Whenever we use one of these devices, it's always looking for the stronger signal, okay? So if we find the signal, say here, but it derives from further over, Yeah. it'll give us a reading here and it will keep giving us a reading until we find where it is. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to reset it.

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