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Spent 4 hours trying to find a bad zone on a DSC panel yesterday
I had a customer in Denver whose backyard sensor kept going off at 3 AM. Turned out a mouse had chewed through the wire inside the wall, and it took me four hours to trace it because the break was hidden behind insulation. Has anyone found a faster way to locate wire breaks without pulling new cable?
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davis.emma5mo ago
Does that tone generator actually work on a chewed wire inside a wall though? Sounds tricky.
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the_sam5mo ago
That sounds like a brutal night. Have you tried using a tone generator and probe for those hidden breaks? It can sometimes save a ton of time fishing around in walls.
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