Thought those new wireless testers were just a gimmick

Honestly, I got one of those Fluke Connect kits last month for a job in a high rise downtown and figured it would just be extra junk in my bag. Tbh, after using it to check a bunch of landing door locks from the pit without running back to the controller each time, I saved over an hour on the call. Ngl, has anyone else tried these and found a good use for them on older relay systems?

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lewis.mila5d ago

My Fluke Connect saved me an hour on a high-rise elevator call last week.

davidkim5d ago

No kidding, I read a forum post where a guy used a wireless meter to check voltage on old relay contacts while the door was cycling. He said he caught a drop-out he would have missed with a normal meter because he could watch the reading in real time from across the machine room. That seems like the real win, catching those weird intermittent faults.

phoenix_bailey5d ago

But what about the safety angle? If you're watching a reading from a distance, you're not right next to the live parts. That's huge when you're alone in a machine room. Like @davidkim said, the door is cycling... if you had to hold probes on moving contacts, that's a risk. Seeing a voltage drop from a few feet away means you can keep clear of the door mechanism entirely. It just feels like a smarter way to work on old gear.