NOYAFANF-826 Underground Cable Locator Wire Tracker, for Dog Fence Cables Irrigation. Wall and Underground Pipeline Wire Detector. Test Short Circuit Breaker of Wall and Underground Cables.

Relatively inexpensive, buy does exactly what it says it will. Used this to trace buried telephone wire that carries the copper wire DSL internet----we aren't in a service area for anything else. Did have to open the "telephone company" side of the house box to see which were the powered and grounded wires and attack the leads. Also used it to trace the electric power utility buried lines (120 V) buried to house, barn, and well pump house. Again, some knowledge of what to connect the device lead clips to in the electric panel is required, but very simple and the built in voltage tester make that easy. Signal receiver worked well, even at 100+ yards from the transmitter. Saved me a lot of time and money.

Our Worx Landroid buried wire has a break after a nearby lightning strike. This tool made question work of finding the break quick and easy. Granted, I had to learn the right way to use it first. Worth every penny. We could easily return it for a refund, but it saved us and it will be here if and when we need it again.

This system does work quite well, and worth it for repairing our dog fence. A few things I figured out helped me a lot to use it.1. Read the manual. I do have some experience with electronics, but I did find the diagrams to be a little small to see clearly. The text we pretty good, however.2. The quity of the electrical connection to the buried wire is critical to its operation. Can't say this enough. Sloppy or loose connections won't do! The alligator clips supplied are suprisingly good quality, but even so, just wiggling the clip connection produced a wide range of signal quality. My fix was to eliminate the supplied alligator clips and cables, and just make short adapter wires with banana plugs to plug directly into the source device and the system ground and the two fence wires where they connect to the control box. So much better!! You can buy banna plugs for a few $ on Amazon, Parts Express, etc. I had a few false starts until I did this.3. I plugged the transmitter into a charger to be sure I always had a strong signal. Set the output to its maximum, and start the transmitter (there are two actions, one to turn on power, and one to transmit!)4. Tape the receiver to a piece of wood, broomstick, etc. so you can walk with it and keep the antenna very close to the ground. The Antenna 'snout' seems to most sensitive in the direction its pointed, so point it at the ground, don't waive it in the air. For precisse location, point it vertically at the ground. The signal strength meter and audio DOES work well, and it reads highest when nearerst the wire underground.5. Keep the sensitivity on the receiver just high enough to receive the signal reliably. This is the most accurate. If you are searching for something when you have no idea where to start, then increase the sensitivity.6. First, check that the pair of wires leading from the control box to the perimter re intact. To do this,connect the source to one of the wires leaving the control box (and the ground of course), and trace the wire to the fence perimeter looking for breaks. If none are found, THEN connect the device to the OTHER wire and check that. For me, these wires were intact and I could see that one went right, and one went left around the yard. Start nearest the source - If you can see the wire exit the house, start there. The receiver would be responding strongly there, if it isn't, stop and check the connections and that the transmitter is transmitting.7. I decided to keep them both connected, and traced the wire's path around the yard. If there was only one break, I would not have detected it, as I have the transmitter conncted to both ends of the loop (so both sides of the break would have had a signal). If that happened, I would have just connected the transmitter to one of the loop wires and started again. I know we had or yard aerated twice, so I guessed there might have been more than one break so I just made my way around the loop.8. I detected and located one break with this setup (both wires powered), which meant thatere must be another! So I apprached the area from the other side where I had signal and found another dead spot, indicating a break. The two breaks were about 20 ft apart and under our garden (hmmm..). We decided to re-route the wire in this area, as we put in a larger garden, so the repair was straightforward using some new 14 gage stranded wire and waterproof wire nuts.Total detection time was about an hour including making come test cables.Next project is figuring our where some wires go in our house...

I purchased a home 14 yrs ago and have been looking for my sprinkler valves ever since. I was skeptical about making this purchase based on some of the reviews. This tool works! It took some trial and error but once I had a good understanding on how to use it (about 2 hours of fiddling arourd in my yard), it was just a matter of minutes before I located the valves. They were buried in my flower bed about 18 to 20 inches deep under a rose bush..

The media could not be loaded. This detector worked great for me. I had some doubts about this but decided to take a chance. This turned out to be exactly what I needed. I had been trying to find the end of a 2" PVC buried drain pipe (AC condensate drain) in the back yard for several days . I did a lot of useless digging but found nothing but dirt. I bought the detector as a last resort. After playing around with it a bit I connected a two conductor 16 ga wire to the end of a fish tape with the end shorted together and pushed it through the end of the pipe at the AC unit I connected the transmitter unit to the free end a powered it up. I heard the signal blaring immediately and started tracking along the garage floor and then outside in the yard. I attached some pics and a video. This thing saved the day. Wish I had it to start with, I could have saved a lot of sweat.

I bought this because I needed to locate my underground dog fence. The device itself is of good quality. The directions, however, leave a lot to be desired. Others have mentioned YouTube videos as training tool but I none that I could find were produced by the manufacturer.

FAR exceeded my expectations! I first tried one of the less expensive devices, and it was useless. This one worked right out of the box, and made it downright simple to trace the buried wiring for several circuits over a distance of hundreds of feet. I can locate the conduits to within about 6". I also used it to find a break in an underground wire, to trace a buried plastic sprinkler pipe (by passing a wire through the pipe), and to trace wiring for one specific circuit inside my house. It worked beautifully in all cases.

Transmitter will not charge. No way to contact Seller directly. The Amazon assistant does not give an option for defective, only damaged which pushes it to Amazon support, who will not assist since they only did fulfillment.