Let's Make a Connection
This is the usual starting connection point for a gas locate.
What is the gas meter?
The color paint used to mark telecommunication lines.
What is orange?
This line connects to the home/business and provides the customer with the respective utility
What is a service line?
This is the most common material used for metallic telecommunication lines.
What is copper?
When an electric current is placed on a conductor, this is created.
What is a magnetic field?
This is the preferred connection method, allowing the use of low power and low frequencies.
What is direct connect?
What is an arrow?
Fiber optic phone distribution mains are run through these structures.
What is a handhole?
Telecommunication lines made of this material are more effective, but are non-conductive.
What is fiber optic/glass?
This is the preferred mode when performing the initial locate. It uses the horizontal antenna in your receiver.
What is peak mode?
You can connect to the riser of an electric meter using this connection method.
What is close induction/ring clamp?
These colors are used to mark water lines
What is blue?
Electric mains and services are referred to as these (2 answers).
What are primaries and secondaries?
Utilities made of non-conductive materials must be located using this.
Turning up the frequency increases the chances of this occurring.
What is bleedover?
When locating a copper cable TV service line, hook up to this structure.
What is a grounding block?
The labels painted in between stripes give this piece of information.
Who owns the line?
Cable TV mains may be spliced together or apart in this structure that also could contain an amplifier.
What is a doghouse?
Gas pipes are most commonly made of out of these materials.
What are plastic, steel, and cast iron?
When using direct connect, the electric current returns to this in order to complete the circuit.
What is a ground?
You should do this if you cannot hook up to a connection point within your locate scope.
What is find an outbound access point?
The color paint used to mark temporary survey lines.
What is pink?
This term is used to describe the gas service to a house that is on the opposite side of the gas main.
What is long side service?
While copper is the most common metal used in electric cables, this material is sometimes used due to its high conductivity and lower price.
What is aluminum?
This signal type is "naturally" present on a conductor as a side effect of the utility performing its function or acting as a return path for another signal.
What is a passive signal?