I've looked at a few TDR (thank you btw) what do you think of the VDV Scout Pro 2?
I'll see if I can borrow one but if not how accurate are they at pinpointing the break in line?
I have no experience with that particular instrument. The lowest cost device I’ve used is a fluke ts100 and it was good for short lengths of a few hundred feet or less and was best the shorter the length of cable being tested. Which was the main reason I used it, for instance when I had gotten so close to my short or open and cut up a road or parking lot and made an opening and couldn’t see the fault with my $8000 TDR because I was say only feet away from it the ts100 was a life saver. Or if I was chasing shorts and opens in 20’ of inside house wire it was great.
Might look on eBay for something used. That stuff is on there all the time, probably telco techs selling their company issue stuff. And then you can always turn around and get your money back from it on eBay. Or if you know anyone that works in telco they might have one or have access to one if they are in outside maintenance. May be a few networking guys that have one but I doubt it.
If you don’t mind give me as much details of the cable you have issues with and I can probably run through some of the most common problems I see.
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