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• Activating Sonde depth will provide an inaccurate readout.
• Always use chalk or paint to mark services, never pegs or other material which are driven
• Additional services may be within the excavation zone, as well as the service you are
• The reading will be more accurate when taken over a straight run, where the service does
Depth shown and actual depth:
Warning
The depth reading might not reflect the real depth if your Locator picks up the signal induced
into the service by the Transmitter. This signal is radiated from the centre of the service.
This is even more important when the signal is produced by a Sonde, lying in a large diameter
conduit!
Precautions:
Always compensate depth reading for service size.
DIGICAT 500i/550i, How to Use the Locator
into the ground.
taking a depth reading from.
not bend, or have a service crossing it or coming off it.
d1 Depth shown on the DIGICAT = depth to the
centre of the line.
d2 Actual depth of the service.
Note the difference between d1 and d2 !
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