who know what the proper name is for underground electric wire locating equip ?
https://www.fluke.com/en-us/product/building-infrastructure/wire-tracers/uat-620 https://www.plumbersstock.com/greenlee-501-tracker-11-cable-locator-501.html
Quite a price difference.
radiodection is a big name manufacturer.
A lot of people around here just use a digger of some sort, backhoe, trencher or excavator. Bob
Company I use to work for had a operator that could locate wires, pipes you name it at the drop of a hat with a 225.
We use a Radiodetection C.A.T. and Genny. It's basic, but works well.
Entirely capable of doing it that way except its my cable. Only want to fix it.
My never fail wire and pipe locator is my Bobcat excavator
This is what we have - https://pipehorn.com/product/800h-pipe-and-cable-locator/ Invented and made in Birmingham, AL. They have the original one in their office. Think we paid around $1200 for it a few years ago but not 100% certain. It's easy to set up an use, the learning curve is not that bad. If there is a locating wire the accuracy is within a couple of inches on either side of the line. Of course we call a locator here a "Pipe Horn" - image that.
And I thought I had the first one cm lol,still works good
Well they say it's the original one. . It's in a glass case on the wall in their office.
Search 'radiodetection' on ebay. You can find a lot of used units to save some money.
We call that a physical locate lol Sounds like you probably want a locator and a fault finder if you have a faulted cable.
Here's the model (<< that's a link<<) I use on the ranch.
Yes got a part in a leg of a 240 line thats been in the ground 24 yrs . There is a y in the line & im pretty sure thats where the prob is just have to find the y.i may be able to find someone to locate it here local without having to buy some thing.there is for sure lots of stuff on e bay from 120.bucks up to 15.000
Ever tried dowsing rods?
Do you know anyone who does directional drilling? A lot of those guys will have their own locators.