Just finished wiring the garage to the house - and find that the wire is damaged! Now what? - eviltoast

I mean, the simplest answer is to lay a new cable, and that is definitely what I am going to do - that’s not my question.

But this is a long run, and it would be neat if I could salvage some of that cable. How can I discover where the cable is damaged?

One stupid solution would be to halve the cable and crimp each end, and then test each new cable. Repeat iteratively. I would end up with a few broken cables and a bunch of tested cables, but they might be short.

How do the pro’s do this? (Short of throwing the whole thing away!)

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    If you just want some spare cable. I’d make 5x 20M pieces. The one that doesn’t work becomes 2x 10M. That bad one becomes 2x 5M … As far down as you like.

    • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t that almost what they suggested except starting at a different size and doing a binary search basically? You’re just starting the binary search after the first step of cutting into 5 lengths instead of 2.