PetSafe Wire Break Locator

 (7 customer reviews)

The break detector did find the break in my fence, at least it got me to within 20 feet of the break. From there it was a matter of digging up the wire and finding the break. Of course, 20 feet is much better than digging up 1000 feet or more. Problem with this product is that it relies on clear frequency in the AM band, in a large metro area, Atlanta, there are so many AM radio stations that finding a frequency where no station exists is very difficult. Also, tones are very close together which really hampered the process. Finally, when I got down to the final stage of the location, I literally had to crawl through the yard to keep the receiver close enough to the wire to narrow the break down.

Used this to find a break in my 3.5 acre lot. Seemed to work OK. They kept it simple and low cost, but it did work. I had a single break. The two tones that are generated by the break detector transmitter aren't that much apart (tone wise) or different. But you can tell them apart. Too bad you have to bend over to hold near the ground. A 4 foot pair of ear phones and a stick to put the AM radio might be nice to walk the wire. If I was doing this a lot, I would fabricate something.

This wire break locator works very well. I was able to locate the broken wire for my robomower (<...>) within 15 minutes of connecting the ends to the transmitters. Digging the wires out of the grass would have taken me several hours. I found it easier to connect each side of the wire loop to each transmitter independently and track one tune with the radio. It was easier for me to recognize one sound and the transition to no sound as opposed to 1 sound transitioning to the other sound. The radio is adequate for the job and instructions are easy to understand.