welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm going to review this ET 300 it's by playing tools and it
comes in this piece and this piece now this is the transmitter and the whole idea behind this
particular tool is to find out which socket that you plug this into corresponds to a fuse or a
breaker on your electrical panel and sometimes that can come in real handy well if you're not
working at your own house and you go to somebody else's in their panel is not labeled at all or of
course you can't really label everything right so you have this one outlet on the ceiling that you
want to replace and some people will go downstairs or wherever their breaker panel is or a fuse panel
and just start turning everything off until the light goes out or the receptacle doesn't work
anymore right well this particular unit here it finds out which one it is and I think it's
a great tool to have I don't sell anything on my channel but I'm going to display it for you and
show you how it works now in the instructions it does state that it's used for breakers I'm
up my grad year and I have fuses and I've used this before to label exactly everything to make
sure that it corresponds with the particular load that you have in your garage so let's try
this out right now and let's see how it works ok so here we are right here in the background you
can hear I have a radio playing and I'm going to take this unit here which is the transmitter
plug it in and you'll see there'll be a light at the end here that lights up to verify that it's
on and the first thing it does is interfere with the radio so you know that it's working so let's
go over to the fuse panel well the first thing we do is we actually have to scan the panel with
the unit which means going on each one so it will learn exactly which circuit that that particular
transmitter is on so as you go around it will learn now generally it only takes like twice to
do it and as you could see well it's not showing anything here anymore right so we get up to here
and here and we'll go down to some other ones here and you could see it's it's not going off on them
right so you have to go slow take your time and you could tell this is the one right here you
could see its flashing green and everything okay so if I unscrew this the radio should turn off
there you go right there well plug into a receptacle outlet using this transmitter yeah
it does interfere we're from Radio if a radio was plugged into the same circuit it'll interfere with
it so what do you do when you want to say replace a light fixture well how do you plug this in well
all you do is you get one of these and these are very inexpensive and you take one of these
and plug it in now it's polarized so I want to go in one way so anyways you take this and you
screw it into your light fixture now we're gonna do that no I know somebody's gonna say to me okay
so where do I get one of these I think I have just a little placard yeah I saved the little
placards for these things I mean this is it right here if you take a look at that if you could see
that and on the back here there's a number I don't know if that number is gonna be good for anything
but it's made by GE and it's called a polarized handy outlet so we're going to take this I got a
light up on the ceiling here I'm going to plug this into and it's gonna find which particular
circuit that light is attached to now remember you have to have the load on right so you have to have
your actual light switch on and your lights on which we do in the shop here now so I'm going to
plug this in I'll show you where it's going and we'll see if we can find it there you go right
there I got it screwed into my light receptacle on the ceiling and you can see that it's verified
with the LED light showing on the bottom that it's active so now let's go over to the fuse
panel and let's do the same thing well on this unit here if you do not use it after a certain
amount of time it automatically shuts off anyways so yeah you have to actually turn it on again and
make sure it's on and then we'll start scanning so we'll do the same thing like I know it's not
that circuit right but it's it's learning as it goes along and you have to find right one
right now you're supposed to both slow see it's supposed to go real slow you can go backwards
forwards any direction you want but you know what I'm thinking it's telling me it's that one right
there so let's unplug that and you can see all the lights in the shop went out and I'll show you on
the ceiling as you can see right there you're really zoomed in the light went out and yeah
it works like a charm well I think that's a great unit you got this piece here this piece here that
comes in the kit and of course you got to buy this piece yourself but pretty well handles most of I
would say everything you're going to average the average homeowner they're going to run into and
I always like to double check and verify because the last thing you know you really want to do if
you're working on a place where you know it's not your own and you you don't know if all the
lights gonna go out like I knew all the lights in my shop we're gonna go out right so I like
to double check and verify to make sure that the circuit is out because you know what what if in
the meantime this little LED like were to go dead on yeah well you know now you're working on a life
circuit right so you have to actually verify and make sure that's a whole idea behind doing any
electrical work safety is number one paramount especially if you want to live so hope you like
that little bit of a demonstration on this tool I think it's terrific I've used it many times I
really can't see the average homeowner wanting to go up and spend I don't know how much this
was I think I paid thirty five bucks but I find it's handy rather than going around and turning
everything off and on off and on you know plug in a radio or light into a an outlet and then
going upstairs downstairs upstairs downstairs see if it's on or not right so thanks for
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to review some more interesting products that maybe you don't know about in the future Cheers
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