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Prepare Circuit for Tracing

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

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What happens here

The electrician sets up the circuit to be traced. He identifies the specific wire (in this case, a 12-gauge small appliance wire) that needs to be located. He explains the principle of connecting one lead of the tracing device to the target wire and the other lead to a ground wire to establish a traceable signal. This signal is then picked up by the Greenlee Sniffer Tool.

Goal: Establish a traceable signal on the target electrical circuit.

Tools and materials

  • Electrical Wires — The specific circuit wire that needs to be traced
  • Greenlee Sniffer Tool — Generating a traceable signal on the electrical wire
  • Ground Wire — To complete the circuit for the tracing signal

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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

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