Just finished wiring the garage to the house - and find that the wire is damaged! Now what?
I mean, the simplest answer is to lay a new cable, and that is definitely what I am going to do - that's not my question.
But this is a long run, and it would be neat if I could salvage some of that cable. How can I discover where the cable is damaged?
One stupid solution would be to halve the cable and crimp each end, and then test each new cable. Repeat iteratively. I would end up with a few broken cables and a bunch of tested cables, but they might be short.
How do the pro's do this? (Short of throwing the whole thing away!)
Wire tracker maybe?
You might want a higher quality version than that particular one if the cable run is long, one of the reviews suggest that the distance is limited.
I was curious if that would work on ethernet cable! I've seen it done on coax, wasn't sure if it would work well enough on UTP to be useful outside a lab setting. Cheap too. Cool!