5/17/2018

Digital Control Incorporated DCI Today…

The DigiTrak folks
- DCI are the pioneers of HDD
Locating Systems
Since 1993.
Renowned for…
- The DigiTrak Mark III
Now produce the World’s Most
Advanced HDD Guidance System that
sets the standard for performance.
FALCON
FALCON technology allows drillers to
measure active interference across
hundreds of frequencies and choose
the best ones for their particular job.

- The DigiTrak Eclipse To watch over our flock of Falcons, DCI

provides unparalleled customer
support/field service, with Global
HDD locating systems Regional Service Centers.

Stepping back to the basics. Challenges to HDD Jobsites

-The HDD Tracking system
A look into why DCI developed Falcon

• Below ground
transmitter.
• Active Interferences

– Can cause a loss of the

• Hand Held transmitter’s signal

Receiver. – Distorts the transmitters

signal making it difficult to
track the drill head.
– Interferences can come
from below or above
• Driller’s ground and ranges in
intensity.
remote display.

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Let’s step further back... Jobsite interference to our eyes…

To the Electromagnetic Field
• Typical example of active
interference seen
• The transmitter in a drill throughout Asia.
head emits an elliptical
shape field the same one
discovered by Michael • All utility lines emit
Faraday more than 100 distinctive magnetic fields
years ago. with certain intensity at
certain frequencies which
can influence the locating
• Interferences in the system.
environment with similar
frequencies can block the
transmitter’s data.
Invisible magnetic fields generated by active interference radiate through the environment at a
much higher rate today than 20 years ago. Our planet is literally a buzz and only getting noisier…
Lets take a closer look at these inferences…
All of us in the Trenchless industry should continue to bring awareness to the Asia world leaders
and local government officials that with the adaptation of trenchless technologies, our streets
don’t have to look like this. We can make a change that makes our streets safe and our utilities
dependable by being placed underground away from Typhoons and high winds.

Jobsite Interference to a Falcon divides the jobsite noise

DigiTrak Falcon. into distinct groups or what we call.
“The bands”

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• Falcon presents and
sections off the best or
worst frequency into
groups or “bands.”

• There are 9 bands

available for use.

• The Locate operator

selects the two best
bands suited for the job.

With Falcon we can measure jobsite noise

both in terms of…

-loudness / Intensity of the inference (dB)

-frequency of the interference…..(Khz / Hz)

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Then comes the Marriage.

It’s easy to customize Falcon’s
frequency based on site conditions After you have chosen the best
two bands on Falcon…

• Scan job site noise Marry the Falcon transmitter to

the Falcon Receiver.
• Choose the two
lowest bands Let’s review

• Pair/calibrate -1890s Michael Faraday discovers magnetic and electric fields throughout nature.
-1930s Einstein proves these two fields to be one in the same thus the name “Electromagnetic
field”
• Your ready to drill. -1980s John Mercer co founder of DCI understands the Field very well and designs the first DigiTrak
HDD locating system to capture the field and use it to determine the drill head’s position,
orientation, and angle.
Its easy, pick the two lowest in noise. -2018 DCI desings Falcon as to empower the driller to know customize the field’s frequency to suite
the site conditions.
Is being a HDD driller today not amazing?

Falcon cuts through active Just a second, there’s another

interference allowing a clear view of the drilling data jobsite interference. We call
this second type “passive”.

Passive interference like reinforced

concrete, box culverts, and steel
shoring “blocks” the transmitter’s
signal.

It’s all abut the data. Clear view. Reliable. Fast.

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Falcon Technology
Ultra low frequency transmitter is the answer.
A new approach to jobsite interference.

• Thousands of
The Falcon F5 Sub K rebar frequency options
transmitter uses ultra low
frequencies below 1 kilohertz.
• Customize frequency
of Falcon best to
The rebar transmitter who’s
frequency can be set as low as counter localized
0.3 KHz reduces the blocking jobsite interferences.
effect caused by rebar and
other types of steel found on
HDD job sites.
End of presentation
Ultra low frequency is the key
for fighting jobsite passive
interferences.
Click onward for pictures of Drillers and DCI’s support in Asia

Jobsite Training
A New Player in Vietnam
Thailand

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Explaining HDD Methodology A proud Falcon Locate Operator

Northern Thailand in Vietnam

On the Job Training Falcon F2 after sales training

Indonesia Philippines

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ATC and the Team from Thailand Converting HDD pioneer Alex
Provincial Electrical Authority Falcon F5
Roadside demo Philippines

Drilling in Jababeka Indonesia

Drillers and Trackers
from Philippines

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Falcon F5 training
Happy Falcon F2 & F5 Owners Practical: High Interference Jobsite
Theoretical: Field Training with Drillers
Vietnam HCM

Husband & Wife Team Vietnam Malaysia

Falcon F2 Road crossing Malaysia

Falcon Training
We speak your language Falcon Pre bore preparations =
A delivered outcome

Maju Menemukan Titik

– 2 Dimensi

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Not forgetting the drillers One of the pioneers of HDD

circa 1993
From the East

CK Lim,
400 MM Steel pipe crossing, near Melaka.
1993 Mersing (Sub con)-HoHop (Main Con)-Petronas (Client)

The bird size really doesn’t matter, just that it’s…

Even Barack Obama’s brother is getting in on the Falcon.
action recently trading in Mark III to Falcon F5