Bought a cheap cable toner from a truck sale and it cost me a full day

It was a 'Sure-Tone' model, looked fine, but the signal bled across every pair in a 50-pair bundle. Spent eight hours chasing ghosts in a new office building before I gave up and used my old one. That was $40 and a day's pay down the drain. Anyone have a toner they actually trust for big cable runs?

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evan_carr16d ago

Ever feel like your tools are actively working against you? I swear my cheap toner once made a whole rack hum!

bethwhite16d ago

Couldn't it be the rack was already having issues? Sometimes a tool just finds a problem, @evan_carr. That hum might have been a helpful warning you got for cheap.