Access Detection will be promoting Sewerin Gas Detection equipment in 2012. Sewerin have long been leaders in the field for Gas detection in Europe. Now Australia will have the benifits of Sewerins wealth of experience in Gas monitoring a detection.

Sewrin have one of the largest range of gas detection equipment starting at the low cost Snooper Mini right up to the RMLD laser gas detector. Access Detection will start to introduce tis range in 2012 for the Gas industry here in Australia. Access Detection will have afull service centre for all reparis of the Sewerin range.

Access Detection with our partners Rycom instruments have introduced the new Rycom 8879 PLS with there more powerful transmitters. Rycom have used some of the latest technology in electronics to create a incredible powerful transmitter which far exceeds the older 8879 transmitter.

With testing and a wish list from Australia Rycom have improved signal penetration on poorer earths, improved induction search capabilities for blind or unknown service detection. This unit brings performance that exceeds far more expensive locators. With the new transmitters and improved receivers in the 8879PLS range rycom have an excellent locator on there hands which should prove to be popular with professional locator contractors, Councils and any operator who wants a high performance locator at an affordable price.

Most professional locator require a locator based on the simple but effective locate techniques including Peak & Null as well as well as depth and current measurement. The Rycom 8879 receiver has all these functions and is an effective and fast way of locating accurately.

A lot of new units on the market today have many functions that most professional do not require to locate and are more industry specific or a gimmick than a real benifit for the end user. Rycom have listened to there somewhat vocal customers here in Australia and over the years have improved immensly with both quality and performance, the new 8879PLS transmitters are testament of listening to these customers.

Rycom will soon be releasing a 10 watt version but going on price and performance this 5 watt unit will be very popular.

This unit is defenitly worth a locate test.

The Sewerin UtiliTrac has many feautures that make this locator one of the best locators on the market. But the best feature is its simplisty of use.

I have been supplying cable locators to the industry for over 13 years and have trained on and sold many of the major brands in the industry. The biggest hurdle anyone faces when purchasing a locator is understanding how it works and what type of locator suits what I do. The biggest hurdle I faced when first using this locator was that is was very different from traditional locators. After testing against my favourite leading brands I came to the conclusion that this was a locator that was actaully very good in both performance aund use in the field. The first thing that I found was that locating was far quicker and just as accurate when used correctly. The single trigger control which controls all functions of this machine does take a bit of getting used to but once familiar I could locate 2 x faster with the same amount of accuracy as the traditional locator.

The second thing I found is that operators that arent as familiar with this technology actually located with ease. The Sewerin UtiliTrac offers all the functions that professionals need including Peak & Null but have several easy functions that allows a quick location. The line mode is by far the simplist form of locating using this machine and on normal locations is very accurate, once in congested areas you can change to the other functions to improve on accuraccy.

We recently did some trials with AUSGRID which is one of NSW leading power suppliers. Operators from AUSGRID found this machine to be very simple to use and proved to be as accurate as the current unit they where using. The UtiliTrac also had several Passive power modes which work on the different power systems that AUSGRID using. From these trials AUSGRID now use the UtiliTrac as an alternative and is proving popular with their staff in the field.

This unit is well worth a locate test and is perfectly suited to power companies, councils and water authorities that want something better than the traditional CAP, CAT type products or for operators who need more frequencies and functions for more demanding locates.

Rycom have just released  a small upgrade that really makes this the best entry level performance locator. This new unit uses the KISS approach (keep it simple system) and is designed for the infrequent user or companies that want a reliable easy to use locator for their service crews

The CAP receiver has very basic controls including digital depth,  Power, Radio passive modes and 33 kHz active mode. It has a push button sensitivity control and large display which is easy to read with a numeric signal strength for accuracy when doing depths. This new upgrade has added current measurement  a feature normally found in more expensive locators, this aids the operator by indicating signal strength on the service being traced from the transmitter  and reduces the tendency for the operator to drift onto a ghost cable or non target services. The CAP transmitter is a powerful class leading 1 watt unit giving better signal penetration. The unit is compact and the transmitter and receiver bags can be separated to make it easy to store in vehicles.

The concept behind the PhaseID System is very simple. Every GPS second, the base station at the dispatch office measures a reference phase using any power outlet and stores this phase, along with the GPS second at which it was taken, in a data file on the base station PC.

When the field probe touches an energized line, a phase measurement is taken at the next GPS second and encoded, along with the GPS second at which it was taken, into a 9-digit sequence. When this sequence is entered into the base station PC, it retrieves the outlet phase taken at the same GPS second, compares them, and determines the field location phase attribute.

This system is extremely easy to use and can operate with multiple phase probes