That's pretty much what I'd like to find. With that, I could trace
the wires to everything I need to.
One bugger is a fan in the attic, it doesn't work any more but I have
no idea it that's because it is damaged or because there is a remote
switch to turn it on/off. Can't see the wiring because of that damned
paper mache insulation covering everything 1' deep in paper fiber.
Gary
KA1J
> : This might be what I need to do. I don't know about a signal tracer
> : kit if its something to carry around and look for signals behind a
> : wall, without opening up the wall, that is what I'm looking for. I
> : haven't come into contact with anything like that to date.
>
> In the early 90's I bought a wire tracer "pen". It ran on a single AAA
> battery, looked like a rectangular laser pointer, had a metal tip. I bought
> mine at All Electronics for a few bucks, Radio Shack had them as well for
> more.
>
> I found I could sweep a wall and locate a "hot" wire behind sheetrock,
> plaster, et cetera. I would press the button, then "sweep" the tip across a
> wall and watch for a red LED on it to illuminate. When it did, I could
> sweep more slowly to narrow down the inch or so it would light, then make a
> faint pencil line. I would then connect the dots, so to speak, to have a
> map of the wire behind the wall!
>
> Kurt
>
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