
F02 Underground Cable Locator, Wire Tracer with Earphones for Locating Wires and Cables, Pet Fencing Cable Tester, Up to
£57.87 inc. VAT (£48.23 ex. VAT)
- Premium quality at just £57.87 inc. VAT
- Free UK delivery on every order
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Why Choose LanCablete
Made for real UK garden fault-finding
The LanCablete Underground Cable Locator is built for the jobs that frustrate homeowners most: tracing a buried boundary wire, locating a pet fence fault, or working out where a shallow low-voltage cable runs before you dig. Instead of relying on guesswork, you can send a signal through the wire and follow its route with the receiver, helping you narrow down break points and avoid unnecessary disruption to your lawn, borders or driveway edges.
Clear signal tracing with earphone support
This underground cable locator uses a transmitter and receiver set to help you detect the path of compatible low-voltage wires over longer domestic runs. Included earphones make it easier to hear tone changes in busier outdoor spaces, particularly useful near roads, in windy weather or when working around garden tools. For many common domestic troubleshooting jobs, it can trace runs up to around 1000 feet with a typical detection depth of roughly 2 to 3 feet, depending on soil conditions and installation type.
Better suited to homeowners than generic alternatives
While shoppers often compare generic kits from KOLSOL or TEMPO, LanCablete is positioned around UK-specific use cases: pet fencing, boundary loops, robotic mower perimeter wires and other low-voltage buried cable routes around the home. We focus on clear expectations, practical setup steps and intended use guidance so you know what the tool is for and how to get the best result from it.
Use before you dig
If you are landscaping, putting in fence posts, repairing a garden edge or investigating a non-working boundary loop, this tool gives you a smarter place to start. It is ideal for tracing, continuity checking and isolating likely faults in low-voltage cable systems. For safety, it is not designed as a live mains cable finder unless your installation has been separately verified and isolated by a qualified professional.
Technical Specifications
- Up to 305 m / 1000 ft
- 0.6-0.9 m / 2-3 ft
- Low-voltage single-core or multi-core insulated cable
- Audible tone transmitter with receiver probe
- 3.5 mm earphone output with earphones included
- 2 x 9V batteries, PP3 type
- UKCA, CE, RoHS
- Receiver 238 × 43 × 26 mm; Transmitter 126 × 49 × 34 mm
- Approx. 410 g complete set
- 2 Years UK
Price Comparison
See how our price compares across UK retailers
| Retailer | Price | Delivery | Warranty |
|---|---|---|---|
| LanCablete UK (Specialist)BEST | £57.87 | FREE | 12 months + UK Support |
| eBay (est.) | £72.34 | Varies | Seller dependent |
| High Street RRP | £92.59 | N/A | Varies |
Prices checked 9 July 2026. Prices may vary.
Customer Reviews
We used this to find a break in our dog fence wire after the lawn had been aerated. The earphones were genuinely helpful because the road outside is busy, and we found the damaged section in under an hour.
Arrived quickly and felt better organised than a lot of similar kits online. I bought it to trace an old low-voltage garden cable and the signal was easy to follow once I isolated the wire properly.
As someone who likes proper troubleshooting before calling anyone out, I found this very useful. It helped me confirm continuity problems on a boundary loop and narrow the fault to a short section near the hedge.
Good little buried wire locator and definitely saved me from digging the entire run. The only thing to note is that you need to move slowly and methodically to interpret the tone changes well.
I was looking at KOLSOL and TEMPO alternatives but chose this because the instructions were more relevant to pet fence wire testing. It found the likely break point in our back garden far faster than expected.
Bought it before putting in new fence posts because I wanted to know exactly where the old buried cable ran. It worked well, though on wetter soil the signal took a bit of practice to read.
Excellent value for money compared with paying a contractor. We used it as an underground wire finder for a robotic mower boundary wire and it helped us identify the damaged section near the patio edge.