How to use a Tone Generator (Klein VDV500-123)

[Music] wizard of West LA here today we're going to look at toners and how to find lines that may be a jungle of cables or a big mess and you can use it especially if all the cables are labeled the same or have the same color you can use a toner to locate things there are many different ones on the market and this is just one of them but I wanted to give you some handy hints that you can use and let's take a look at these toners and how they work the first part we'll look at is this which is called a probe and what it is is it has a speaker and it detects tones from the other device the way this works is it has a speaker it has a volume other ones have a rotary switch this one has digital switches on an off switch and this one comes with the light it's very simple and it gives you the strength of the signals and it has the probe tip some are metal some are plastic the old ones were metal I still have some of those this one is a plastic tip but I'll show you what this does when you hit the power switch it turns on and if you turn it up you'll hear a bunch of interference we hear a hum if you touch it [Music] here here's some sounds that come from it and then this one has a light which projects on the top in case you're in a dark closet or wire room very useful little thing the other part is the toner and this toner has a power switch it runs different tones and you can select different tones it also checks polarity of a phone line and all different things and what we're going to play with are these two lines which send out a tone and the other device finds the tone so using this toner we have two lines we have a red positive line a black line and a lot of them come with a rj11 jack to test the find phone lines what we're going to do is this is the red line actually transmits the tone and I'll show you what happens when these short out and what I'm going to do is send this tone down the piece of metal and I'm going to use the sensor and show you what this actually detects so let's turn this on and right now a tone is being emitted and you can see what it says yeah we're gonna send this one an 800 Hertz tone so if I turn this on there's the tone and you can hear the tone going through this whole piece of metal as it goes through so that is one thing that it will do I will actually go over here and change the tone so you can see what else it does it sends different types of tones so that's what happens when you send a tone through the probe will detect the tone on the piece of metal now let's see what happens when you short these out suppose you're trying to find if a line is if a piece of wire is open or if a piece of wire is closed like two different wires and you're trying to see if those actually make sense on the other end so we're going to do I'm going to touch these and you'll be able to hear the different sounds so let's turn this on again and I'll leave it at 800 I'm going to just turn this on and you'll hear the tone and I'll lower the volume pump you can probably hear it now look what happens if I touch this on the piece of metal actually I'll put it closer so you can hear when we turn up the volume if you touch it together you get a little alarm cell and that tells you they're connected and liquid the sender with you a lot of senders will do this too it gives you a red light which means short if I take it off its continuous or open and there's an indicator to tell you that if you're testing the line and you don't know where it goes but on the other end they're touching that's the little message you will get so that is how you use a toner so that red line just travels down a piece of wire in this case a piece of metal and this receives it now there's other other little tricks to this now here's the other little trick to this that helps if you run the toner near this you get the tone but if you hold it in your left hand or away from that piece of metal or actually a wire and you touch it with your right you'll hear the sound go off that is a way you can double check that it's that wire because you may have adjacent wires next to it and the toner will just make the same tone but if you hold it far away and touch each individual wire it'll tell you what it will do it'll tell you if it detects the tone just by touching it some people wet their fingers you don't have to but you can actually touch the wire and this is very handy when you're trying to find extra lines so this is a very handy tool if you're trying to repair anything for example if you're a 3d printer breaks one of the lines is out and you're trying to replace a line that controls like one of the motors and you can't find which line goes where you can hook the red line to one wire and then use the toner and find it where it goes to on the on the the chassis you can find where it goes and find out where it's connected so I just wanted to show you a basic concept of how you use a toner and I'll go through and show you some other videos on how you connect it to a phone how you find phone lines and different things but this is good for repair for all different types of equipment that you might have if you liked the video feel free to give us a thumbs up and also feel free to subscribe to the channel as we will be posting a lot of videos with that are jam-packed with information remember keep on learning

Channel: The Wizard of West LA

Views: 144,863

Keywords: diy, electronics, DIY, robotics

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Length: 7min 45sec (465 seconds)

Published: Wed May 27 2020