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Ron will explain how to use IDEAL's SureTrace™ Circuit Tracer to find a breaker in an electrical panel. It works great!
If you would like to know more about Ideal’s line of Sure Trace circuit tracers. Y ,you can find them on our website or contact our customer service department and learn more about how you can get your hands on one.
The circuit tracer can be used on open or closed circuits and is rated up to 600 V AC or DC and is a category three rated tester so it can be safely used in distribution panels and throughout a building.
You can use it to identify breakers and fuses in electrical panels and to trace wires throughout a building.
Now if you are using the circuit tracers to trace lives circuits please be safe out there and follow good industry safety practices.
The tracers consist of a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter produces a unique signal onto the circuit to be traced.
The receiver detects this unique signal when placed in the proper orientation to the wires being traced or breakers being identified.
The receiver provides a numeric value and a variable pitch tone that increases as the signal become stronger.
Step one is to plug the transmitter into the circuit being traced.
Holding the receiver near the transmitter shows it is receiving a signal and the lightning bolt indicates power is present on the circuit.
Whether the circuit is open or closed greatly affects the strength of the electromagnetic field being generated.
In an open circuit, no current flows, so the electromagnetic field produced is much weaker.
However, in a closed-circuit, the injected voltage also induces a current flow which produces a much stronger electro-magnetic field.
We can do this by simply placing a load like a lamp on the furthest outlet in the circuit.
This is the optimal method for tracing as this much stronger signal allows the receiver to detect the signal from a greater distance away from the circuit being traced.
The tester receiver has 4 sensitivity modes with great resolution from 0-99.
The four sensitivity modes really help in trying to trace cabling and can get you fairly close to the cable you’re looking for and by changing the sensitivity you can zero in on the right cable.
Step two is to set the receiver to it’s lowest sensitive setting or breaker mode.
Step three is to go back to the electrical breaker panel and properly identify the breaker by simply slowly scanning each of the breakers with the receiving unit and looking for the breaker with the highest rating.
It may take a couple of passes to identify the breaker with the highest signal.
Starting in the upper left corner of the panel, hold the nose of the receiver at right angles to the breaker over the location where the branch circuit conductor is connected.
Scan around in a consistent manner keeping the orientation of the receiver the same for the entire scan AND be sure to go around the beakers completely once, noting the area where you obtain the highest reading.
Be sure that all panel breakers have been scanned. On the second scan, confirm your observations and determine the breaker with the highest reading. To double check your findings, rock tilt the receiver up and down 45 degrees.
Do not twist the reciever.
The readings should remain fairly stable.
If you note that they do not, then this may not be the correct breaker.
Be sure that the nose of the receiver is centered on the conductor located under the panel cover.
The nose should also be on the outer edge of the breaker.
Due to wiring techniques beyond our control, it may be necessary to remove the panel cover and touch individual conductors to sense the presence of the signal for optimum accuracy.
Once identified you can trip that breaker and the lightning bolt symbol indicating power will turn off on the receiving unit indicating that the transmitting unit no longer detects power on the circuit.
This tells us with a quick look at the tracer that I tripped the right circuit breaker.
Make sure to hold the tip of the receiver on the face of the breaker in the orientation shown for best results.
Following those steps when identifying a breaker at an electrical panel will help you find the correct breaker using the tracer.
Call the ideal customer service line or visit our website to find out more about the circuit tracer tester and a local distributor you can buy one from.
Thanks for watching I’m Ron with ideal.
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