How to do Direct Connection with the Vivax Metrotech VM-560

Please keep in mind that the Direct Connection method is only one of several methods of locating which you can use and it will depend on the individual circumstances of your locate which one works the best.

So what we’re going to do is take the ground rod out and we’re going to try to find good soil to stick it in. I’m going to take the connector from a set of Vivax-Metrotech direct connection leads, plug it up into the transmitter, and then I’m going to take the black lead, hook the clip to the rod, and then the red lead to the tracer wire. Then I’m going to turn the transmitter on, and now I’m going to set the frequency on both the Receiver and Transmitter.

A question I get asked a lot is why do we have different frequencies. Well, frequencies react differently in different situations. So if we have a lot of resistance on the cable or pipe, we might find that 480 kilohertz will run a lot better. But when we go to a really high frequency, the chances are that it could also jump off on to something else. So that would be using 480 when you’re directly connected, only if you have to use it, because you can’t get it to locate in the other lower frequencies. And what I find with the 512, a lot of times it’s too low, and if there’s any resistance, it doesn’t make it run. Where 8K is a medium frequency and it’ll usually have great success with it going down the cable.

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