Specifications ................28 Contacting Platinum Tools, Inc. Warranty ..................29 Figure 1—Display Screen and Keypad Icons ......... 8 For information on this product or any Platinum Tools product, Figure 2—Wire Map ..............12 please visit us at www.platinumtools.com. Figure 3—Mis-Wire ............... 12 Figure 4—Shorts ................
Data (Twisted pair): 15 pF/ft Specifications are subject to change without notice. Warranty Platinum Tools warrants this product to be free from defects in material and workmanship for 12 months for test equipment and 3 months for cables and accessories from the date of purchase.
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VDV MapMaster 3.0 Features Specifications Cable Verification Display Large 2.75” Backlit Monochrome LCD • Test, Measure, and Map data, coaxial video and voice cables Dimensions 6.8˝ x 3.2˝ x 1.4˝ (17.3 x 8.1 x 3.5 cm) • Fault testing for opens, shorts, mis-wires, reverses and Weight 10.8 oz.
Extend the life of your tester by using the RJ45 Port Saver as your sacrificial cable. This eliminates the wear and tear from constantly The use of a Port Saver (Platinum Tools P/N 21025C), a plugging in and out of the tester port.
Maximize efficiency and save time, by eliminating the need to walk back and forth to test sites. Combine this kit with the master remote in your Platinum Tools tester to both ‘Test’ and ‘Map/ID’ up to eight drops/locations simultaneously. P/N TRK220 Data Remote Set, RJ45, 20 pc ID/MAP 20 data (twisted pair) cables or data ports/jacks at one time.
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Mode ed pair or a selected pin. These tones can be heard by using Port Link Data Cable an inductive tone tracer (Platinum Tools TP250C ToneSeek- Mode Mode ). The signal generated on a pair has the signal on one...
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Connect the cable from the switch to the test- er and press the MODE button until the Link Icon/Term Description Light icon and “Linc” is displayed on the DATA/LAN Cable Test mode screen, then press “OK”. VIDEO/Coax Cable Test Mode VOICE Cable Test Mode TONE Mode Port Link-Blink Mode...
Single-Ended Testing Test Results and Other Functions If no test remote or mapping ID is found, a single-ended test is performed on the open cable. A single-ended test first measures the length of all 8 wires. If all wires are greater than 4 feet, a split-pair test is performed.
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NOTE: To access the Set PASS Criteria menu, you must press and hold down the SETTINGS button for more than 2 seconds. When editing a setting, press the Setup button to return to Setup loop without saving. Pressing the OK button saves the setting and returns to the Setup loop menu.
The tester will display the “Pass” icon when all 6 pins are Using the Tester correctly wired in a one-to-one order. If all 6 pins are The corresponding connectors at the top end of the tester correctly wired in the reverse order, the “Pass” icon are labeled the same as their mode switches.
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Remote-End Wire Map: The bottom line displays the Note that this tester will not determine which end of a faulty corresponding pin on the remote-end. Dash lines on cable is mis-wired, reversed, or split. the remote line indicate short pins. No pin numbers displayed on the remote line are open pairs.
The tone generator operates in DATA, COAX and VOICE Interpreting Tests Results modes. In this mode, the conductors or pairs associated with one of the three connectors are displayed. The specific mode Pass/Special Cables: “Pass” will appear if the cable is a (DATA, COAX, VOICE or TONE) is selected by pressing the properly wired 4-pair T568A/B data cable, a 3-pair MODE button.
Voice/Data Cables - Up/Down keys select pins used for Remotes length, OK/Test keys resume testing (automatically returns after 5 seconds of no activity). The “LEN Auto” There are four types of remotes that can be used with the setting measures the first pin pair it can find without a tester: short or other detected problem.
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