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Default GB instrument, circuit breaker finder question

In article , "claude" wrote:
Has anyone here ever used a an Electronic Circuit Breaker finder? More
specifically a GB instruments CB locator. This is a gizmo where you plug a
small signal generator into a live plug and with a receiver probe you can
find the associated Circuit Breaker at the panel.


Yep, got one.

Here is the question. How is it possible to get 2 different Circuit breakers
reacting with the same audio and visual ( LED) intensity? Does this mean I
have spaghetti wiring? Or is this common in or around the same wiring areas?


It means the device isn't perfect, that's all.

I've found that if I remove the cover of the panel, and run the wand over the
wires, instead of the breakers, that the difference in the audible signal
when it's over the right one is unmistakeable.

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

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