Cable Testing

 A Visual Fault Locator sends a beam of visible light down the fibre so that you can check for damage to the sheath or for poor connections or breaks. If there is a fault the light, typically red in colour, will spill out. Fibre networks operate in the infrared region so you would not be able to see anything in an active fibre cable and, of course, you should never look directly into a fibre cable under any circumstances.

A sample report from the OWL Wavetester kit can be seen on OWL's website.

A suitable replacement would be something from the Validator product range. If you need a fibre power meter then the NT1155 or NT1150 would be a good choice. Both units include an optical Power Meter and the NT1155 also supports Wifi networks. Both units have USB memory ports.

The TX2002 is a cable fault tester rather than a telephone tester. It is used to detect cable breaks and so on on long cable runs. To analyse faults on an ADSL line you would need something like the Vonaq Quicktest 500.

If it's a telephone tester you need then take a look at the Ranger LB255 which is a telephone test set designed to work on digital lines.

Yes the Faultcaster will work on shielded 7-15Kv cable provided that the cable is de-energised.

The Psiber Pinger+ is manufactured in the USA.

Yes. We are happy to help. Do you know where and when you bought the unit? The Test-Um Validator is supplied with a one year warranty so your unit may well still under warranty.If the Validator is out of warranty, we can arrange for a repair.

A cable length measurement capability does not necessarily imply an automatic distance to fault capability. Testers that are able to select which pins to measure could be used to measure distance to fault, at least distance to breaks, but they would be very slow to use as you'd need to test each pair in turn. For a CAT5 and above cable that would imply four measurements to cable. Not ideal. Fortunately there are testers that will do all of that automatically for you.