User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Operator’s Manual
- Digital
- Control
- Incorporated
- DCI Headquarters 19625 62nd Ave. S., Suite B-103 Kent, Washington 98032 USA Tel 425 251 0559 / 800 288 3610 Fax 253 395 2800 E-mail DCI@digital-control.com www.digitrak.com
- Important Notice
- Safety Precautions and Warnings
- Safety Precautions and Warnings (Continued)
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- Introduction
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- Receiver
- Power On
- Toggle and Trigger Switches
- Speaker and Audible Tones
- Adjusting Screen Contrast
- Main Menu
- Locate Menu
- Set US Menu
- Low Fre/High Fre Menu
- Configure Menu
- Changing the Telemetry Channel
- 1-Point Calibration
- 2-Point Calibration (In-ground Calibration)
- Changing the Grade Mode
- Changing the Depth Measurement Mode
- Cold Screen / Normal Screen
- Tele Option A/B
- Locator DL / No Locator DL (Enabling and Disabling DataLog Menus)
- Set Roll / Unset Roll (Enabling and Disabling Roll Offset Function)
- Remote Display
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- Transmitter
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- Battery Charger
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- Locating
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- The Target Steering® Function
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- Cable System
- Cable System Components
- Non-DCI Supplies Required for Operating the Cable System
- Connecting Power Supply to Power Source and Cable Transmitter
- Grounding the Cable Transmitter
- Cable Transmitter On/Off
- Calibrating the Cable Transmitter
- Enabling the Roll Offset Function on the Remote Display
- Locating Using the Cable System
- Viewing Transmitter Depth or Predicted Depth
- Viewing Status of Cable System Power Source
- Target Steering Function Using the Cable System
- Troubleshooting
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- Appendix
- Depth Increase in Inches (Centimeters) per 6-foot (1.8 meter) Rod
- Depth Increase in Inches (Centimeters) per 10-foot (3-meter) Rod
- Depth Increase in Inches (Centimeters) per 15-foot (4.6-meter) Rod
- Percent of Grade to Degree Conversions (0.1% Pitch Transmitters or Sensitive Pitch)
- Degree to Percent of Grade Conversions (0.1% Pitch Transmitters)
- Calculating Depth Based on Distance Between FLP and RLP
- LIMITED WARRANTY
Cable System
Power Supply – This unit is inserted into the battery compartment at the back of the remote display. It is
hard wired to the Eclipse cable transmitter with a 10-gauge (white) wire and to the power source with a
gray cable that contains 14-gauge black and red wires.
Battery
Compartment
Power Supply
White Wire
Gray Cable
Insertion of Power Supply in Remote Display
Remote Display with Cable Function – This specially configured remote display supplies power from
the power source to the cable transmitter and displays the cable transmitter’s information. All Eclipse
remote display units manufactured after
February 2002 are equipped with this cable
function and will show the Cable option in the
main menu when the unit is turned on (see
Remote Display section). Remote displays
manufactured prior to February 2002 can be
upgraded to the cable function. To upgrade your
Eclipse remote display, contact DCI.
Cable Transmitter with Cable Extraction/
Insertion Tool Screwed into End
Extraction/
Insertion
Tool
10-gauge
Cable Wire
Cable Extraction/Insertion Tool – This tool is
used for inserting and extracting the Eclipse
cable transmitter to or from the housing. Two
threaded holes (1/4”-20 thread) are provided at
the back of the cable transmitter for threading
the extraction tool (see photo).
NOTE: Never remove the cable transmitter
from the housing by pulling on the wire.
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Operator’s Manual