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Bob Engelhardt Bob Engelhardt is offline
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Default Copper cable going into the floor, cannot be pulled out

On 2/26/2013 9:49 PM, Steve W. wrote:

Well you might get lucky. Take an ohm meter and check for continuity
between any of the conductors and ground or each other. If you find a
good path grab a compass and connect up a low voltage DC source (12 volt
battery works well for this) to the conductive path with a self
resetting breaker. Now with the breaker tripping follow the compass
which will be going crazy with the magnetic field around the copper.
This is the same way the "short finder" kits for auto wiring works.


The problem with that is that the cable is in conduit, which acts as a
magnetic shield

Another method would be a signal injector and it's tracking receiver.


Same problem.

Bob