Don’t let a buried pipe or cable keep you from performing your job. If you need to bury your own cable or dig a foundation, a pipe locator can help improve the safety of your project.
A pipe and cable locator is used when one or more accessories related to a heating oil tank are visible, but the location of the tank itself is not known. A pipe and cable locator consist of two parts. One part is a battery powered signal emitter that is clipped to the visually accessible accessory. The other is a wand that is programmed to seek out the signal being emitted. Limitations to this method include, but are not limited to areas where no accessories are visually/physically observed or accessible.
The basic premise behind an underground utility locator is that it works by producing and transmitting a signal onto a utility that is metallic that the receiver can detect. A signal (measured in kHz or Hz) can be produced by a transmitter and is sent through the utility by either conductive or inductive means.
“Conductive” means a direct connect connection such as alligator clips. “Inductive” means the signal is “induced” onto the metallic utility line with an induction clamp which is secured or clamped around the utility line but does not connect metal to metal as the conductive alligator clip does. Inductive is great when you don’t have access or ability to do a direct connection.
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