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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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    It's Saturday morning, I have pulled some books out to show you.

    I not so keen on assembling my own library  oof old electrical books as some other forum members,  but I do have some old Megger pocket books from the days before most people Google things and believe what they read on the internet. 

    One of them is the Megger book on Resistivity Prospecting with Megger Earth Testers.

    There isn't any real reason why you cannot use your earth tester or MFT if it has the test on it to locate underground water supplies, what do you think the tester is actually measuring?

    If you have a buried metal pipe or conduit you should really be able to plot its course with your tester ?

     

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    It's Saturday morning, I have pulled some books out to show you.

    I not so keen on assembling my own library  oof old electrical books as some other forum members,  but I do have some old Megger pocket books from the days before most people Google things and believe what they read on the internet. 

    One of them is the Megger book on Resistivity Prospecting with Megger Earth Testers.

    There isn't any real reason why you cannot use your earth tester or MFT if it has the test on it to locate underground water supplies, what do you think the tester is actually measuring?

    If you have a buried metal pipe or conduit you should really be able to plot its course with your tester ?

     

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