User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Operator’s Manual
- Digital
- Control
- Incorporated
- Safety Precautions and Warnings
- Introduction
- System Components
- Startup and Operating Instructions
- SST Operating Procedure
- Setting Up SST Laptop
- Setting Up Equipment and Site
- 2. Establish Borepath Reference Line and Mark Borepath
- 3. Assemble and Torque-up Non-Magnetic Housing to Non-Mag Tool
- 4. Align Drill to Marked Borepath
- 5. Position & Align Non-mag Tooling Assembly onto Marked Borepath
- 6. Stage SST Equipment and Power Sources Adjacent to Tooling Assembly
- 7. Power Up Eclipse SST Equipment
- 8. Measure SST Transmitter Current Draw
- 9. Install SST Transmitter into Aligned Non-mag Tooling Assembly
- Setting Reference Heading (Ref Yaw) and Roll Offset
- Calibrating SST Tool and Confirming Proper System Operation
- Logging Drill Run
- Summary of Basic Operating Procedure
- SST Operating Procedure
- Computer Software Instructions
- Inputting and Changing Drill Data
- APPENDIXImporting Topography, Drill Plan, and Planned Deviation from Excel File
- LIMITED WARRANTY
Operating Instructions
22. Log Last Rod
The last rod logged is just as important as the first. At the end of the run, with the tool at the exit location,
you must measure and document the length of the Last Rod so that you can enter it when you download
the drill data to the computer. The Last Rod measurement is the rod length minus the length of drill rod
left on the rack. For example, if you measure 6 ft (1.8 m) from the make-up/break-out clamps to the top of
the rod, then you would subtract 6 ft (1.8 m) from the rod length. If the rod length is 10 ft (3.0 m), then the
Last Rod measurement will be 4 ft (1.2 m).
NOTE: If the depth of the Last Rod is less than 24 in. (61 cm), you must set the ultrasonics
and log the last data point above the ground level for an accurate depth reading, or
you can record pitch only.
Top of Rod
Drill
Make-up/Break-out
Clamps
Drill Rods
Slots in
Housing
6 ft (1.8 m) Rod Length Left on Rack
Ground Surface
(Topography)
Zero Elevation
Reference Line
Drill
Head
Termination / End
Point
Rod Length
(10 ft / 3.0 m)
Last Rod Measurement
23. Save Project
DCI recommends that you save the project at the end of the bore using at least two different names, so
that you have an extra copy of the data for backup. Then, if you accidentally make changes you don’t
want, you can still revert to the earlier version of the file. You may even want to save the bore data more
than two times.
When the SST software was loaded onto your computer, the default storage location was C:/Programs/
Digital Control Incorporated/Steering Tool 2.9. Within this folder will be a Drill Data folder, which is where
your bore will automatically be saved.
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