<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I've used one in the past with success. Use the trigger with a bulb (still attached and powered) in the gun. Also used it on empty sockets.<br><br>Sent from my iPad, small keys, big hands, large errors.<div><br></div><div>John Lay</div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Dec 5, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Robert Bruninga via aprssig <<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Sorry for the off topic.<br><br></div>Will one of these cigar sized (yellow) electric field sensors be any use in finding the bad bulb in a series XMAS light string?<br><br></div>It beeps in the presence of an electric field and detects AC about 6 inches <a href="http://away.th">away.th</a> this?<br></div><br></div>I can find no difference all along the string. But then this is a 3 wire string with a receptacle on the end so there is AC end to end, even though there is a series bulb out.<br><br></div>Maybe this technique will work on a 2 wire loop string and not a 3 wire?<br><br></div>I'm happy to cut off the end plug and pull out the 3rd wire if someone claims it will work on a 2 wire string.<br><br></div>Sorry for the off topic post, but I'm probably not the first one with this dumb question at this time of year.<br><br></div><div>Bob<br></div><div><br></div>B<br></div>
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