Locating Reinforcement Bars; Before You Start; To Locate A Single Layer Of Reinforcement Bars - Elcometer Protovale 331 Operating Instructions Manual

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OCATING REINFORCEMENT BARS

5 LOCATING REINFORCEMENT BARS

This section describes how to set up and use your Covermeter to locate

reinforcement bars.

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Are you using the correct search head?

See "Search heads" on page 27.

1. Connect the search head to the Covermeter.

2. Switch on the Covermeter.

3. Zero the Covermeter.

4. Adjust sensitivity - see "Adjusting sensitivity" on page 24.

5. Align the search head parallel to the reinforcement bars being sought.

6. Maintain the alignment of the search head and move the search head

across the search area (Figure 8).

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Figure 8. Align search head and scan across bars

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