NOYAFA NF-826 Underground Cable Locator Wire Tracker, for Dog Fence Cables Irrigation, Wall and Underground Pipeline Wire Detector, Advanced Circuit Breaker Finder for Wall and Underground Cables

works great , I only quickly tried this out and it worked great , I have 7 underground power lines each in 2 inch plastic conduits , I need to locate these lines before digging started on my property . I called two different private locating companies , I had quotes from 225.00 to 400.00 , this purchase saved me quite a large amount , and I can use it when ever I have time and I own it . This is another one of the great products that Amazon sells . Thank You ,,,

I was skeptical because it wasn't one of the more well-known brands. But for a residential user trying to track down one short in a wall, this worked OUTSTANDING for me and the price was right. It saved me dozens of hours and worked great! I would recommend this to any occasional user. It was way cheaper than calling an electrician! Bravo Noyafa!

I purchased an "Underground Wire Locator", NF-826, on Amazon. It worked! At 1/20th the price of a professional unit, it was well worth it for home use. It was not as accurate or as easy to use as the $4K system I use at work, but it was accurate enough out to 174 feet from the transmitter. It may work on longer runs, but that's the longest run I had to measure for the initial project. The photos show that the tracer put the ground surface location of a tracer wire buried 24 inches below ground with a plastic gas line to within 4 inches of the actual location. The written instructions were not without some minor translation problems, but they were clear enough that I got it to work. At first it appeared that the unit did not produce a signal, but I only had to press the [||>] button on the transmitter for it to start generating tone. Something that I did not pick up from the instructions. I'm writing a review of the product, since none of the reviews on Amazon gave an actual review of the unit's ability to do what it claimed to do: Locate underground wires. One of my pet peeves about "product reviewers" on line is that they don't produce actual reviews. They say something like: "I just received and unboxed the product today, and I'm real excited to have a new toy. It looks very (interesting / fun / exotic / well-made, etc.), and then they give it 5 stars, and they have not even read the instructions yet, let alone used it for it's purpose. So they skew the ratings without actually having used the product. And then there are the reviewers who give the product a rating of "1" because the product didn't or couldn't do something that the product description CLEARLY stated was not within it's capabilities, or was outside any reasonable persons expectations. For example: "The food processor could not make sand out of gravel".

I purchased a home 14 yrs ago and have been looking for my sprinkler valves ever since. I was skeptical about making this purchase based on some of the reviews. This tool works! It took some trial and error but once I had a good understanding on how to use it (about 2 hours of fiddling arourd in my yard), it was just a matter of minutes before I located the valves. They were buried in my flower bed about 18 to 20 inches deep under a rose bush.. Power went out in several rooms in my home. I determined I had an open neutral. After ruling out a loose connection or a bad outlet/ switch I used the tracer to find a break in a neutral wire behind the wall. Again, it took some time and research but once I had an understanding of how to approach using this tool it pinpointed the broken wire

Worked as expected. Traced whole house in an hour.

Works pretty good, but won't show a short to ground unless the wire is completely broken. Will not show a short to ground that is tripping a GFI unless the wire is completely burned to open circuit

What a great tool. Works as advertised. I had it up and running in about 10 minutes. Traced out a line buried in my front garden bed. Great value for money saved me calling out a private service. I knew where it ran (the bed) but not the location. This tool did the job. The only thing I was curious about was could I use it in a live circuit. I decided to play it safe and shut the breaker down 100A feed to a sub panel.

I ordered a new item and received an obviously used product. It had scratches on the back of one. The probes were wrapped. The screens were dirty. I will return it as I don’t intend to pay a new price for a used product.