Noyafa NF-8508 Network Tool

all right everyone welcome back to better biomed today we're going to talk about networking and uh it's because there's a new tool and I love new tools especially when they give you more functionality for a cheaper price how cool is that so anyway let's get right into it guys networking tools coming up next right here I'm better biomed [Music] all right guys let's get right into it here we have on my desk this is our traditional scan tool and this is an economical option you can find these on Amazon for probably I don't know 30 30 or something like that maybe 40 bucks don't really remember it's been a while since I bought this one but it's old and reliable let's go ahead and check it out check out Old Reliable so in the original kit we have a tool for using scanning and we have I don't know what is this a generator I guess that's a generator it generates tones which allow you to track down wires we also have here um what is this guy this is a male to male short um cable and then I've got this one here for doing phone line and Signal tracing I then have earbuds ah so if I'm in a loud environment I can plug these guys in probably to this guy right yep right there then I can listen on the earbuds for the signal we'll get into that in just a minute all right so the functionality of these guys is actually kind of simple uh we have an RJ45 and an rj11 the RJ45 is ethernet rj11 that would be your typical telephone all right a bit smaller uh so we can do a scan which uh let's see with the scan let's turn it on and let's hit the scan here how one is near it with proximity it beeps so I can actually use this attachment right here and you can clip it onto cables even even inside a medical device as long as it's powered off you can clip it onto a cable if you want to find out where that cable comes out let's say there's a wiring harness inside your ultrasound and you want to figure out which wire is this one that comes through if you can access one of your conductors you can clip one of these bad boys on and use a signal Tracer so we hit the scan and even if you're within proximity you can hear it you see that see that so that is how you do a scan but we can also do Network test which I'm going to go ahead and use this little doohickey right here I'm going to connect it to the RJ45 and then down here at the base of your scanner or your hand probe you can connect your other one well now you can see LED lights going through there it is now you can see them so what this test does is it tests all your conductors inside the cable and if you do it correctly it's going to scan them pin by pin and you want to make sure that on each end it's scanning through nice and even like one two three four you don't want it to go to one to three to two or having multiple pins highlight at the same time which means that you've got a short which does happen especially if you make your own ethernet cables let's go ahead and test this bad boy this is like a 50-footer all right you see it going through the pins one two three four so really what you're going to do is you're going to be looking on the hand uh probe which is this guy right here so one end you're gonna plug this guy in or you can plug it into a jack which is for this and then you go to your calm closet or like I did in my house right yeah I wish I could show you guys like what what a nightmare that was to go up into attic and stuff and I was not sure uh if I got the correct pit out I wasn't sure about a lot of things but uh anyway you can see how it functions it Scrolls through all the lights and when it Scrolls through the lights you uh make sure that it coincides with you know both ends and you know you got a good cable so you can do tone so that you can test for telephones and continuity which I don't think I've ever tested for continuity anyway don't really know never had to do that but that is the old style way of doing it so if that's the old style I bet you guys are wondering what the new Styles like because holy cow technology has certainly come a long way from this tool now this is a pretty cost effective tool you've got a lot of functionality in this 30 tool so if you are making network cables or if you want to just quickly deploy and check cables like especially if you're doing medical networking or if you're checking like because your device isn't connected into the central you can connect one of these bad boys on and you can normally test the cable as long as you have both ends but let's say you want some of that more advanced functionality more advanced functionality like the fluke net tools and stuff they can tell you if there's a problem with your cabling without being at both ends they will tell you how long your run is your length of cable and I'll tell you if there's anything wrong with it and they do a bunch of other things and because of that I seen a very cost effective version of the fluke tool which actually has more functionality in some ways right here from Amazon it is Optical wire meter Tracer this is the NF 8508 as soon as I seen it and I seen just a couple of its little screens I thought you know something I have to have that because being able to troubleshoot without having access to both ends of the cable are really important so uh let's see let's go ahead and read off it says it's an optical power meter slash vfl well that's kind of beneficial because um if you are testing like uh Optical networks which if you're doing a network Hub that's probably what you're going to be doing or if you're going to be doing let's say a medical video systems like in operating rooms a lot of those like Carl stewartz they are fiber and since they're fiber fiber optic you need an optical uh intensity Checker all right so the other things that this guy can do multi-function for cable scanning and continuity testing it's kind of like the other one cable length measurement it's kind of a big one cable length measurement that is more of an advanced function that you find on like the fluke net tool and what it does is that I I believe it sends a ping down the cable and based on Resistance or whatever uh it tells you how long that run is and if you have a cut or damage in the line usually they'll show that if they have that functionality we're going to find out let's see it has a Poe switch test that can be nice a Poe switch test which means that you can test your Poe your power over the ethernet which more and more things are Poe now whether it's security cameras it could be wireless video systems there are so many options for Poe it is the future so being able to test that without whipping out an extra meter that's a huge Plus now uh let's see it does NVC AC test and it allows you to locate Target cables quickly which is very similar to that unit over there but this guy does so much more all right let's go ahead let's get right into it guys now how much do you think this guy costs it comes with a few things we've got a manual we've got the same male to mail I've got male to male rj11 and male to male RJ45 which is the ethernet and I have rj11 to the gator Clips which is just like the other one which allows you to inject a pulse into a cable and then you can use your cable tracer to go further down and see where it stops maybe you have a construction project that cut the cable like they did to me one day anyway we also have the earbuds this is looking very similar to the other one didn't it I have ah I have a USBC charge cable I am so glad that these uh Chinese companies started adding the USBC not only can you do fast charging with it but having that universal plug end is so nice anyway let's see what do we got here you got this guy everything comes at a nice plastic bag I like that I dig it okay it's got a uh like a butylene rubber over mold USBC charger nice earphone jack nice it's got a good texture good texture grip I like that you got a thumb control for your volume it's got a flashlight just like the other one scan nvcu and a flashlight okay all right so up here these are your fiber optic testers I have a scan for uh hmm so RJ45 I have a port for length or Flash and I have a port for QC and continuity so I would assume that you'd plug one end here and the other end here we're going to find that out let's go ahead and power it on now it does have a little uh it's got a clear plastic over the screen let's see if I can get this off okay it's a touch screen no it's not a touch screen it looks like a touchscreen it's an illusion but it still looks like it's pretty good okay so you can use the arrow keys to go up down up down Okay so let's do continuity I'll plug one in here and we'll see if I plug the other end here enter press ok testing says Cable open so I wonder for continuity if we're supposed to use the receiver instead of up here the scan Port again I haven't looked at the manual I like my tools to be self-explanatory let's go ahead and turn this guy oh nice nice it's got good LEDs it's got a scan thing there it's actually got a much brighter and much better uh LED for detecting uh if you're in a com closet or something like that the other one didn't have a really good cable or a good LED light okay let's do continuity again type Cat 5 6 or 6A press ok to test look at this here we go okay and it showed me the pin out one to one two to two three to three four to four five to five so if you have a twisted pair or a crossover cable um it'll tell you cool enter let's do scan okay all right well if we're gonna scan it has to be connected to the scan Port I know that you guys are going to say that [Applause] okay so this is digital scan mode and there's also analog scan mode this one I might have to actually read the manual for hmm let's go to analog mode okay okay so the analog mode the analog mode does have a oh yeah okay so analog mode it attenuates the signal the further you get away from it oh yeah okay so let's go to digital mode okay digital mode does not attenuate the volume it's it's just on or off right so if I'm in a closet and I got this one here there's a little bit of a delay see it um I don't know because if you got a whole handful of cables and you're going through and testing them yeah I don't know I don't really like that delay here let's go back to analog mode okay I do like the analog mode a little bit better yeah I like the analog mode for scanning a wee bit better Let's see we got Flash we've got length let's let's try length okay CAT5 start testing okay okay oh so for length I'm supposed to plug it in there is a separate port for length my bad sorry start testing okay wow one of the cool things so here it's telling me uh wires one and two are eight point five meters long uh wires three and six are eight point five meters wires four and five eight point five meters so if you have a busted internal set of wires it'll tell you round about how far down the the unit is that's very cool uh okay so let's let's go ahead and change this to yards or feet yeah we're gonna do feet because this should be a 50 foot cable I think okay there we go 28 foot 28 foot 28 foot love it let's see if it makes a difference when it's plugged in here it's 28 foot it's right on the money man so I'd be curious how long this patch cable really is it could be a 30 foot long cable um I just grabbed it out of a box so who knows right okay let's go back back Poe that's cool QC test so the QC test that is definitely one of them that I'm going to want to do here so right here um we can go to QC test and QC is on this port and we're going to hit OK and you can see it gave me green check marks all the way down saying that this cable is good okay let's go back and let's see we can do OPM vfl those are both for fiber optics I'll show you guys the the length this is actually a nice little meter so this meter was 119 dollars couldn't believe it considering the functionality is built into it especially the the cable length and testing out individual conductors that's a huge Plus for 100 bucks hell yeah okay so we're on meter let's go ahead and change it to feet CAT5 let's start testing actually I think this is Cat6 yeah it is Cat6 okay here let's let's do it again let's go back let's do CAT5 I think it's using resistance for how it figures out how long the cable is okay so we're on Cat6 start testing okay 26.7 foot there we go 26.75 all the way down so this must be a 25 footer that's probably more realistic again it's not going to be an exact map but if you're working in a medical facility or in an office building or something like that or even like here at my house you know I've got cables that are going up through the attic and then down into other ports and stuff you have no idea the length of those you can use this tool okay so let's go up to I don't know let's try the Flash link tests okay so length and Flash so length is here and we're gonna press ok let's go okay link test am I supposed to plug both ends in here test timeout here let's try it again okay link test I wonder if I'm supposed to plug the cable in here or unless this is supposed to talk to the router that could be what the flash is I don't know I'll have to look that up some of you guys will probably know what it is for okay so let's see we got scan let's go ahead and hit OK all right and this is where we would take the scan tool and you go over it okay and let's see continuity that's the last one is continuity enter five cat six okay so for continuity it's looking for it to be plugged in here okay it's and there we go it gives you a pin out one for one tells you how it goes all the way down I guess I could probably also plug it into here right enter okay okay for continuity oh so stupid it's supposed to be plugged into the continuity part there are a lot of different plugging things in the different ports it's a little odd let's go ahead and hit okay okay there we go tells you what your wire is wire for wire all the way down pretty cool I dig it anyway I know I don't have any fiber optics on hand especially to test this guy out but uh it's good to know that I have that functionality just in case I want to get a lot of functions in this guy man so hmm maybe sometime I will go through and I will do an in-depth review on this guy maybe in the field but with that being said this guy is a pretty neat tool for 120 bucks the fact that I can do especially like Poe checks and length that's such a huge plus but uh anyway guys what do you think what do you think pretty neat little guy 120 bucks I'll leave a link in the video description where you can go ahead and check it out if you want I would say at 120 this guy would have saved me so much of a pain the fluke tools um those are like thousand two thousand three thousand dollars given they they do some extra functionality like you can you know do ports and stuff on them but this one here does a pretty good job I don't know what the flash does I would assume the flash is it talks to the router maybe pulls up um information you know like what it's connected to the fluke tools I know that when you get those they will tell you all the nodes on the network between here and wherever it is that you're pointing to and uh that's kind of a cool feature but for 120 bucks this guy here is definitely gonna be and it comes in a nice little kit it's going to be one of my go-to tools especially when I'm out in the field and uh you know my customers are complaining that the data is dropping out or something it's a pretty good tool to sit there and try and analyze that well guys let me know what you think um this is just a neat another little tool this would be the optical wire meter Tracer the NF 8508 from Amazon 120 bucks link it's down in the video description thanks for watching guys

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Length: 22min 55sec (1375 seconds)

Published: Mon May 29 2023