An ac-based continuity tester for front-line test-and-repair jobs provides a simple go/no-go test for localizing faults in multiconductor cables (Figure 1). Open circuits are more likely to occur at ...

The situation: I rent a place, it has network cabling installed (no conduit) and the cables from the rooms terminate in one room where I have the router etc. I ended up installing some of the wall ...

In addition to basic continuity testing, the Model ST1000 hand-held SCSI cable tester will display the presence or absence of TERMPWR, indicate whether the bus is SE, HVD, or LVD, and display the ...

As part of my basement finishing project, I ran 7.2 speaker cables and 4 HDMI drops from my AV closet to the theater room. I don't have speakers or a display yet to test them and we are having drywall ...

Welcome to another in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 20 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. This post ...

CableEye wire harness testing systems easily link to custom test fixtures and harnesses and instantaneously check for faults, ...

Cable and connector faults arerelatively common in LANs (local-area networks). You can use the circuitin Figure 1 to test straight- or cross-link10BaseT, 100BaseT, or gigabit ...

The Arduwire UNO is an innovative shield designed for the Arduino UNO development board. This shield enables users to perform a variety of tests on cables and harnesses, including continuity, open ...

Don’t look for atomic-powered cable/harness testers. The present crop of testers isn’t quite that revolutionary, but they do incrementally improve upon those available a couple of years ago by ...