What Is The Scout Advantage; The Micro Map Advantage; Scout Components - RIDGID Scout Operator's Manual

Scout™ Sonde and Line Locator

What Is The Scout Advantage?

Scout Views all of the signal (electromagnetic fields)
with multidirectional antenna. The multidirectional an-
tenna offers definite advantages:
1. Signal always gets stronger as user gets closer to the
target.
2. Eliminates Nulls and "Ghost Peaks". With conven-
tional locators it is possible to have signal strength go
up as it is moved farther away from the target. A
conventional locator signal has a peak then a null and
then a smaller peak. This can confuse the operator
especially if they interpret a smaller peak (known as
"Ghost" or "False" peaks) as the target. The Scout
sees just one peak to draw the user to the target.
False Peaks
Peaks
Figure 1 – Sonde signal as "seen" by a conventional lo-
cator. Main peak in center and two false peaks
outside the two nulls.
Peak
Figure 2 – Sonde signal as "seen" by the Scout. Only
one peak, no nulls.
3. How the unit is held does not affect signal strength.
The user can approach from any direction and does
not need to know the lie of the pipe or wire.
4. Additional tools to identify and solve "difficult" locates
include a graphical micro map and an angle indicator
to help interpret signal characteristics.
Null
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What Is The Micro Map Advantage?
The map provides graphics that shows the signal's
characteristics. It is a bird's eye view of the signal un-
derground, shown graphically on the screen. It is used as
a guide for tracing underground lines and can be used to
better pinpoint sondes. It can also be used to provide
more information for complex locates.
By moving the locator over the ground the Scout passes
over the signal emitted by the underground objects.
This allows the user to see on the screen, visualizations
of the signal and then mark them. Conventional locators
cannot map the underground signal as their antennas
cannot see the complete shape of it.

Scout Components

Display Screen
Keypad
Handle
Speaker
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