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Said no way a $12 toner probe would beat my $300 one, ate my words on a Plano job
Honestly I laughed when the new guy pulled out this little green tester he got for $12 off Amazon. I have been running a $300 Fluke for years and figured anything that cheap was junk. But we were hunting a dead pair in a 40 unit complex out in Plano and his cheap probe found the break in 4 minutes while my fancy one kept ghosting on me. Tbh I still keep the Fluke for cert work but that little thing lives in my pocket now. Any of you got a cheap tool that ended up outworking the expensive one?
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cora21611d ago
My old journeyman told me back in 2011 that the tool that finds the break fastest is the best tool, period, and the price tag dont mean squat. He had this beat up Ideal tone set from the 90s that he swore by over the shop's brand new stuff. I watched him find a bad splice in a warehouse off 635 in like 2 minutes with that thing while the fancy set sat in the van. Cheap stuff has come a long way too, the chips in those little Amazon testers are the same ones going in gear that costs 10x more. Youre just paying for the name and the case at that point. Fluke still wins for cert work where you need the paperwork to back it up, so keeping both makes sense.
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