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Underground Cable Tracing.

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An P.V.C./P.V.C.  cable is run in steel conduit underground from a farm barn to another location. It may run underground to some nearby concrete slabs previously used as a base for wooden sheds, or it may run for about 80 metres to some distant  derelict outbuildings.

I am not too familiar with all of the types of underground cable tracers available.

Which would be the best type of cable tracer to use to determine its run? There may be other buried metal to confuse some tracers. Will a signal injected into the cable be able to be detected by a cable tracer as the cable in inside steel conduit?

The cable is currently dead.

Thanks,

Z.

 

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    That's a load of nonsense!

    The loops of water pipes are a carefully controlled trial.

    Yes, a conductor will be surrounded by a magnetic field, but it certainly will not be detectable by some bloke with a couple of coat-hangers.

    There is a sub-station diagonally across the road from our entrance. It does not frighten me, nor apparently, the surveyor who has lived next door to it for longer than the 25 years that we have been here. (I keep resisting the temptation to ask to measure his Ze. ? )

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    That's a load of nonsense!

    The loops of water pipes are a carefully controlled trial.

    Yes, a conductor will be surrounded by a magnetic field, but it certainly will not be detectable by some bloke with a couple of coat-hangers.

    There is a sub-station diagonally across the road from our entrance. It does not frighten me, nor apparently, the surveyor who has lived next door to it for longer than the 25 years that we have been here. (I keep resisting the temptation to ask to measure his Ze. ? )

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