What Is A Paladin Cable Tester?

Paladin Tools Inc. has a lot of different paladin cable testers to choose from. Depending on what job is to be done, they can help to customize per the job and pick which paladin cable tester is just right for the technician.

There is the Paladin 1577PC Cable-Check Pro. This paladin cable tester is a new universal tester that maps cables, detects good connections, open circuits, short circuits or crossed circuits. It works on an array of different kinds of cables including LAN & telephone cable, serial cable, coaxial cable, USB cable, VGA cable, Mini-USB cable, S-video cable, FireWire cable, PS/2 cable, keyboard cable, and parallel printer cable.;

The features of this paladin cable tester is it has auto scan and manual scan modes, it is equipped with rubber feet so that it can grip to a desk or bench without slipping off, it's power shuts off after 30 seconds of no activity, it has a rugged case that has a handle so it is easy to transport, it works on a 9 volt battery and when you buy the unit, the 9 volt battery is included. The paladin cable tester tests all cables that have several terminations including the Modular plugs: RJ45, RJ11, RJ12 and UTP/STP. It can test the coaxial terminations including BNCs & CATV "F". It can test the D-sub: 9-, 15- & 25-pin, the HD-sub: 15-pin, the USB: A, B, & mini 5-pin, the 1394 FireWire: 4- & 6-pin, and the Centronics: 36-pin printer. ;

The advantages of this paladin cable tester is it is a universal tester for all computer cables, it can quickly troubleshoot a cable pin-out, it has bright LED lights that are easy to read and understand, it has true cable mapping, and the best advantage that it has of all the other advantage's is that it is a very affordable diagnostic tool for the cable technician today.

There are also other paladin cable testers that basically do the same thing that the Paladin 1577PC Cable-Check Pro does but some may not have all the features that this one has and some may have a couple more convenient features that this one does not have. It all depends on what type of environment or remote site the technician might be in to test cables. Some of the Paladin cable testers do exactly the same but are different sizes. Whatever job the technician has will tell what paladin cable tester will be right for him.