I lay a bunch in my palm Then check my palm to see that the unit still calls me that odd color that is does; I find black mixed with my skin gives me a dark maroon reading white wire mixed with my skin says light pink and red gives me light red. It works for me. I haven't done small 24gsizes though.
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Bob Kennedy wrote: > Tom, > Since you work with wires, do you know of a way to identify colors of wires? > I had asked doctor Benham to make me something up and he said he knew of > something that would work, but he never did get a chance to finish it. > > I'm only interested for something in a housing situation where there would be > 4 colors at most. Automotive with their tracer system confuses people so I > couldn't expect a machine to get it right. > > I've used the one from MaxiAids but even after drilling a hole through the > side of the cap to allow the wire and not extra light, it can't pick up black > or white. Usually they are called gray, sometimes "very dark gray" which is > encouraging until both wires are labeled the same color... > > If you guys have come up with something I'd love to hear about it. > > Bob > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom Fowle > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:42 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] color identifiers > > > Lenny, > The one we tested, which was the cheapiest from MaxiAids, wasn't > very repeatable, but would be O.K. for identifying clothing once you knew > how it worked on your stuff. > > It needs a fairly big area of the desired color to get good results, thus > unless you burn an area of a square inch > or so consistantly, I doubt it would be found. > > Tom > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
