Warning: spent 2 days chasing a wire short that was right in front of me

Had a job last month wiring up a new breaker panel in a house off Highway 99. The neutral wire had a tiny nick in the insulation right where it bent into the box, took me 48 hours of checking every connection to find it. A $10 continuity tester would have saved me two days of lost work. Anyone else got a story about a simple fix that took way too long to figure out?

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3 Comments

jana50913h ago

Wait, wouldn't a regular multimeter do the same job cheaper?

brooke4489h ago

Clamp meters measure AC current without breaking the circuit.

charlieh746h ago

Funny how people overlook the simplest tool for the job.