NewRehabber
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I recently purchased a new home and will be doing a lot of electrical work myself. I have enough knowledge and comfort with the subject to do most of the work myself. I'm educating myself along the way and am trying to get the right tools for what I'm doing. I have a basic set already, but one purchase I'm trying to figure out is the testing side of things.
The house was built in the 1960's and it seems like it went through quite a bit of electrical changes, upgrades, etc. Its difficult to know what's what, so my first plan is just to sort of map it all out and see what is on each circuit breaker, etc.
I know there are a variety of wire tracers/tone generators and circuit breaker finders, but I'm trying to figure out if I should get multiple tools or if one tool will do the trick. The only electrical tester I have at the moment is a multimeter - which is great for some things, but not so much for mapping out a whole bunch of outlets and sockets in the house.
The house was built in the 1960's and it seems like it went through quite a bit of electrical changes, upgrades, etc. Its difficult to know what's what, so my first plan is just to sort of map it all out and see what is on each circuit breaker, etc.
I know there are a variety of wire tracers/tone generators and circuit breaker finders, but I'm trying to figure out if I should get multiple tools or if one tool will do the trick. The only electrical tester I have at the moment is a multimeter - which is great for some things, but not so much for mapping out a whole bunch of outlets and sockets in the house.