Can we talk about spending $400 on a cable toner? Debating if it was worth it

I dropped $400 on a fancy Fluke toner and probe set last month after my cheap $30 one kept giving me false readings on a big commercial job downtown. It literally saved my butt when I had to trace 50 runs in a ceiling that was packed with old wires and some new ones mixed in. But now I'm looking at my bank account wondering if I shoulda just stuck with my old one and dealt with the hassle. The signal pickup is way better though, no joke, I found a run in 2 minutes that woulda taken me 20 minutes before. On the flip side, my coworker swears by his $80 Klein setup and says I overpaid for a name. Anyone else drop serious cash on a tool and feel like it either paid off or was a total waste?

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leep333d ago

Man, I feel that... I bought a $500 label maker once for a big warehouse project and my wife still brings it up. Thing printed thermal labels that lasted forever in the sun, but man it felt like a silly purchase until I had to re-label a whole rack six months later when the cheap paper ones faded to nothing. Now I just tell people it's an investment...

simon3783d ago

Ha, the wife tax is real with those purchases!