My tone tracer can isolate individual wires. Does yours have that option?
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On 6/5/2024 12:24 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Anybody remember your POTS troubleshooting skills?
I’m trying to get an alarm system to work from a VoIP ATA over about
1000 feet of convoluted wiring at a farm, a combination of overhead
and buried. I get tone on my tone tracer (Tempo brand) but 0 VDC on a
buttset or voltmeter. It’s too far for my Fluke cable tester which is
meant for data cables.
I suspect one wire in the pair is open, but I don’t know how to check
this with just a tone tracer.
The alarm system just calls and plays a recorded voice announcement,
so the VoIP part shouldn’t be tricky at all, not like FAX machines or
alarms that use modems. But it can’t even seize the line and call out.
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