All,

Here's my situation. Rough electrical run, passed rough electical inspection, next up is drywall installation. All boxes installed, all wiring run and pigtailed. Four home runs of romex unattached near the breaker box. No breakers installed yet.

From your experience, what is the best way to test my electrical. The best tools and method. I figure the tool is in two parts. One to attach to the line near at the breaker that sends out small volts and low amps. The second part of the tool is like any other tester to make sure I am receiving at the outlet. Any suggestions, links.

Thank you.

All,

Here's my situation. Rough electrical run, passed rough electical inspection, next up is drywall installation. All boxes installed, all wiring run and pigtailed. Four home runs of romex unattached near the breaker box. No breakers installed yet.

From your experience, what is the best way to test my electrical. The best tools and method. I figure the tool is in two parts. One to attach to the line near at the breaker that sends out small volts and low amps. The second part of the tool is like any other tester to make sure I am receiving at the outlet. Any suggestions, links.

Thank you.

Unless you think you damaged the wire, there is not need to test it. As for splices, per code all splices must be accessable inside a box. So even if a splice is bad you should be able to fix it anytime.

I learned my lesson on damagin cable with the first staple I nails...missed the staple and broke the sheeth. Lesson learned and I inspected each cable after that. Not worried about my splices for the reason you give. Thanks.

You could get a toner set but if you have a multimeter, you could use that.

First, I would check the cable to ensure that it is open but touching two conductors at a time checking for continuity. Then you could check the conductors by twisting two conductors together at one end and then test for continuity at the other. I would snip off the twisted sections when I was done just to ensure that there was no hard short when I went to wire it up.

Never had to do this but, this is how I would if I did. Your visual inspection should be fine.

The toner set is handy when you are trying to find one out of a bunch of cables. The set I have is an ethernet and coax tester as well.

Kevin