Coaxial (Coax) Pocket Continuity Tester (Tracer) with Voltage Toner (Sound) and Barrel Connector Bundle, for Testing, Labeling, and Identifying coaxial Lines - Pocket Toner

Easy to use out of the box and makes tracing coax cables super easy! Great value for the time saved.

Being a novice at cabling it took me a little bit to get the hang of how best to use this tool but Im glad I got it. I bought a 5 year old house and the original owners (and cable company) only added connectors and used 2 of the 10 cables in the basement. This tool saved the day and I was able to trace the rest, label, and add connectors to the raw cables. Glad I was able to find this helpful tool.

This item works great. I had to figure out how to put the battery in but that was the only issue. After you remove the sounding element, you still have to twist off the remaining battery enclosure ( it has a gripping pattern) to insert the battery. Once I got the battery in it did the job intended

I used to have satellite TV until I ordered a outdoor powered TV antenna from Amazon. I used this tester to find all my cable lines to hook into my new antenna and to all my TVs around the house and this was the best purchase I have ever made and made it so easy to reroute to my new outdoor antenna

The red light is supposed to indicate shorted circuits but it shines on good circuits, too. A short piece of coax thats known to be good verified this so deducting 1 star. Otherwise, this unit works as described. There are no instructions but its not hard to figure out. Insert battery. Screw one end to a run of coax. Insert the tool into the other end of the same cable. Alarm should sound. If it doesnt then you havent found the correct end of the coax yet.

We recently moved into an older home that had a control panel for the phones, ethernet and coax hookups. Problem was, it was a mess! Nothing was labeled, nothing was properly hooked up or split with the main line, the Xfinity guy that set everything up for us only got the downstairs one working, but since we didnt have TVs in the house yet he couldnt test if the other ones worked. Which is crazy because I feel like he must have had a similar tool like this to test it, but he didnt want to try I guess. So instead of calling and dealing with another tech, I thought with the power of the internet and this tool I could do it myself, and I was! I was able to identify which coax cables went to where and get them all labeled and now have working cables in all rooms. It didnt come with instructions, but its not too hard to figure out. The bottom section under where you unscrew for the battery. is the little speaker. So just pop the main unit (L shape one) onto where the line youre testing and then just go to the other end wherever that may be and then screw on the speaker into each line until you hear a high pitch noise, and BAM thats your line. Super easy peasy.

once you get it apart its a breeze. had to use plyers to get the end loose from the tester.

Good product but bad documentation! Use the product as shown below: 1. Unscrew the black bottom from the device 2. Attach the end with red light in the coax outlet 3. Go to the other end and connect the black bottom you unscrewed in step 1 to coax end points one by one 4. When you connect to the correct end point it will beep. 5. Label that end point Checkout my video review for more details!

Right-angled connector detached from main body and cannot be used. This head connector should not have come off. To salvage from these parts, with pliers, the bulb and the tiny board where it’s attached can be pulled out. Replacing the connection from the detached head connector to the battery by soldering a new piece of insulated wire, the cable connectivity test can be done with the speaker as intended on a short coaxial cable and the speaker beeps. However, when used for testing coaxial cable in house, the tester does not work! The speaker does not beep. Probably total resistance from coaxial cable and speaker is too high and there is not enough current to drive the speaker. Further cutting the single piece of soldered insulated wire into 2 pieces and removing the light bulb from the tiny circuit board and putting the light bulb in series with the 2 pieces of wires and doing the connectivity test by looking at whether the light bulb lights up works, by not using the speaker at the other end but using a cheap coaxial cap instead (not part of components here).

I usually use a Klein scout to tone/test coax but this tool comes in handy for toneing wires quickly. The press on connection makes it a breeze to click through multiple wires to find the one your looking for. It doesnt replace a full blown tester/generated but at the price its worth adding to your tool bag.