Microscanner2 help

[Cornerstone Technologies]

Hello all, been a busy summer. Recently, I was troubleshooting a Cat5 run in an apartment building, and as part of the contract, I am to use the Microscanner2, which has been more than handy on a number of other jobs. I was testing one particular run and all pairs appeared to match up as they should, but I caught a series of 1's and 0's above three of the wires. The run is bad, but the manual doesn't state what this means, and I am at a loss. Anyone have any ideas or resources that might help?

 

[Markverhyden]

Did you take a picture? The tool you used does not do the detailed tests that other, more expensive, tools do including induced voltage, BERT, etc.

 

[Cornerstone Technologies]

I did not take a picture, and I wont go on site again until next week when I pull new cable. For $400, it does everything I need it to, and meets the requirements for my support contract, though I may be a bit irritated that such tools have a real lack of useful documentation.

 

[PcTek9]

My suggestion

Send fluke an email and ask them. Without seeing what you saw it's really difficult to know. Sometimes having a run that goes by a flourescent light ballast or other sources of high voltage can set up a field on several or all of the wires in the ethernet cable. This induced electromagnetic field can easily overpower the low voltages of ethernet, flipping bit values or slowing down traffic tremendously. The reason I recommend asking Fluke, is because I am sure you've already googled for a manual for this testing device.
To me it sounds like IEMF (guessing here) b/c I have no idea how it's appearing on the fluke display screen. Maybe the device is trying to show you a changing data stream as the result of IEMF, maybe it's indicating POE, or perhaps saying some of the wires are broken in the ethernet and identifying which wires it is, how long are the streams of 0's and 1's? Is it 8 of those 0's and 1's? I'm really guessing in the dark here, not being able to see the display and all.