alt Hacker NewsOK sure your 6 figures thing or even that 20k thing are way better testers than the Treedix. But for my use case, i.e. verify what's actually in the cable (not blindly trusting the marker) the latter is sufficient and very ergonomic, and the "real" testers are overkill.
> verify what's actually in the cable (not blindly trusting the marker) the latter is sufficient
But as was repeated 101 times on that thread ....
All that those cheap $40 boxes are doing IS reading the marker.
Sadly you are kidding yourself if you think a $40 box off Amazon is doing any sort of "verification". Let alone in any sort of calibrated, reproducible sense free of random unknown variables.