PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-600
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 600
NOVEMBER 2002
SOUM For Good Detecting
Keep It Sensitive
The detector's sensitivity
varies over time as you're
sweeping, so you need to keep
checking it. As soon as you've
made the initial sensitivity set-
ting, put the head over ground
where there is no metal to trig-
ger a signal. Take a metal
object like a trowel or bayonet
and slide it down the wand
until you get the same signal
from the detector you heard
with the head over the target.
Move the center cable clamp
that you placed on the wand to
the tip of the trowel or bayo-
net. Compare the signal from
the mine or test piece with the
signal from the metal object
touching the clamp.
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PS 600
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Float the detector head over the
target, just grazing the ground,
sweeping at a rate of about 1 foot per
second.
Graze ground
with detector
1 foot
per second
Make sure you
still get a
clear sound as
the detector
passes over
the target.
Keep It Close and Slow
The word used to be to keep the head 2 inches or less above the ground while
sweeping. No more! Let the head graze the ground. And don't sweep 3 feet per
second like you were taught—sweep 1 foot per second. Closer and slower sweep-
ing dramatically increases your chances of finding a mine.
The clamp is now your
sensitivity
mark. After
every 2 meters of sweeping,
touch the clamp with the
metal object. If the signal
has softened, turn up the
sensitivity knob. If it's loud-
er, turn down the sensitivi-
ty. Don't move the clamp.
If you have to frequently
adjust the sensitivity, the
batteries probably need to
be replaced. Weak batteries
can hurt your detector's per-
formance long before the
low battery light comes on.
Sweep no faster than 1 foot per second and overlap each sweep and the edge of
the lane you're checking by at least one half the width of the detector head.
If you
don't,
turn up the
sensitivity until
you do.
Recheck
signal every
2 meters
your
signal’s
getting
weaker
and
weaker.
How Can I
get more
information on
the new mine
detecting
procedures?
Get hold
of CECOM
safety of use
message
(SOUM) 02-001.
Your CECOM
logistics assistance
rep can help.
M9 ACE Tee Fitting
NSN 4730-00-466-7496 gets the tee fitting for the earthmover’s fire extin-
guisher. The NSN shown as Item 23 in Fig 45 of TM 5-2350-262-24P is wrong.
I think I
need more
juice.
replace my
batteries.
Slide trowel down pole until you get signal
Move center
clamp to tip
of metal
object
600. 18-19 (C)
9/26/02
5:42 PM
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