Power Probe III
$69? I got a .99 cent glowing power tester and plenty of meters and tone generators. Trade related stuff. A telephone tone generator (flicker) and an inductive probe are really useful when tracing wires: clip one end of wire to red lead, clip black lead to ground. Now you can use the probe to follow the wire around the harness with an audible tone, and when the tone stops, there is your break. If your tone never starts (or stops), the wire (red) is shorted to ground (black). Very nice feature when looking for intermittant shorts or opens when you shake the harness at the plugs. You can usually find them on ebay for cheap used or broken. The toner is fixeable (always broken lead wires) , the probe not so much. It can hear active speaker leads too.
$69? I got a .99 cent glowing power tester and plenty of meters and tone generators. Trade related stuff. A telephone tone generator (flicker) and an inductive probe are really useful when tracing wires: clip one end of wire to red lead, clip black lead to ground. Now you can use the probe to follow the wire around the harness with an audible tone, and when the tone stops, there is your break. If your tone never starts (or stops), the wire (red) is shorted to ground (black). Very nice feature when looking for intermittant shorts or opens when you shake the harness at the plugs. You can usually find them on ebay for cheap used or broken. The toner is fixeable (always broken lead wires) , the probe not so much. It can hear active speaker leads too.
