Anyone used one of these?

www.amazon.com/Tool-Aid-25100-Short-Tester/dp/B000...U

Reviewed here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQ1dRPPWTU

Guy says its over-priced, as is everything, but I dunno where else you could easily source the inductive detector, as he alleges.

In action here, fairly convincingly

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZrCrBx4uFY&t=73s

Something similar (maybe a bit better for heavy currents) plus some other nice gizmos/tricks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQruaj-zy-8

I tried using the vehicle flasher as a fluctuating field generator (the commercial version has a thermal flasher in a can, hence the oldish caveat in the title, because this may not be compatible with fragile modern electronics) with a compass as the field detector,

No worky, not really surprising when one considers the car is made of steel.

Edited by edlithgow on 09/02/2023 at 12:06