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DIGITRAK FALCON F5+ USER MANUAL
DCI DigiGuide 11.04.2023
Bootcamp
HDD LOCATING HISTORY
Locating in the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) industry was initially based
on locating a buried cable by sweeping the locator back and forth to find the
highest signal strength (peak signal), indicating that the locator was over the
cable. Unfortunately, this method did not always guarantee an accurate
location of the cable, nor did it provide any depth information.
This "peak signal" method was adapted to HDD with the introduction of a
transmitter that provides information on the position and depth of the drill
head. However, this method is unreliable and inaccurate because the peak
signal strength is not always directly above the transmitter housing.
In addition, peak signal locating doesn't show where the drill tool is headed.
Think of drilling like driving a car: it is more effective to look ahead through
the windshield to see where you are going than to look down at the road
through the floorboard to keep the car (drill tool) on the road (drill path).
YOUR DIGITRAK FALCON GUIDANCE SYSTEM
The Falcon locators are part of the integrated Digital Guidance System. The
system comes standard with a locator, a remote display, a transmitter,
batteries, and a battery charger. You can purchase additional transmitters,
batteries, and the R1 terrain mapper from your local dealer.
You can find a chart of the compatible transmitters in the Reference Chapter
in the "Compatible Transmitters" article.
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