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A comment on Ask HN: Cablefinder to find telephone cables in the wall.

Re:Ask HN: Cablefinder to find telephone cables in the wall by tssva on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:54AM (#39940877)
Search for “wire toner”.
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Re:Ask HN: Cablefinder to find telephone cables in the wall by fefferkorn on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:43AM (#39941176)
the intellitone pro 200 looks promising, any experience with it?
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Re:Ask HN: Cablefinder to find telephone cables in the wall by tssva on Friday April 05, 2024 @10:45AM (#39943016)
Unfortunate not. My experience using wire toners was mostly in the mid-90s when I was doing cable plant installations.
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Re:Ask HN: Cablefinder to find telephone cables in the wall by errata_piccata on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:34AM (#39941108)
i read wire boner.. :/
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Re:Ask HN: Cablefinder to find telephone cables in the wall by fefferkorn on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:30AM (#39941076)
yeah we already had an electrician / telecom technician here with such a device, but they only were working close range (1-3 centimeters) and had too much noise after a few centimeters of distance to the cable. But yeah, thats a good searchterm, i just came up with cable tracer or cable finder. Tone generator is also good.
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