Part 7:4 Conductive – Locating a Tracer Wire/Far-End
March 9th, 2022 | American Locator Magazine, Damage Prevention, Education, Locating, SU Online Locator Training Curriculum
We’re going to go to the far-end of the tracer wire, which was ungrounded, and using a jumper, we’re going to put the end of the wire to earth. Now we get 61 mA of current flow out of the transmitter versus 5 mA (Figures 17-18). This is the value of a far-end ground
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We’re going to go to the far-end of the tracer wire, which was ungrounded, and using a jumper, we’re going to put the end of the wire to earth. Now we get 61 mA of current flow out of the transmitter versus 5 mA (Figures 17-18). This is the value of a far-end ground