Spent $200 on a 'smart' wire tracer that failed on a simple job

I was working on a retrofit in an old building and the tracer gave me a false positive behind a plaster wall. Ended up cutting a hole for nothing and had to patch it, which wasted half a day. What's a reliable wire tracer you guys actually trust?

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casey39314d ago

Tried a bunch of tracers and kept getting ghost readings in old walls. Finally grabbed a basic Amprobe model on a buddy's advice. Its tone is super clear and it hasn't lied to me yet, even around old knob and tube. What kind of wiring were you dealing with?

noah_chen1714d ago

Wait, it actually works around knob and tube? That's wild, I thought those things were basically ghosts to tracers.