DigiShot plus.4G - Page 9

UTM-00339 | Rev 19
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19.1. Blasting Overview ..................................................................................................................... 232
19.1.1. Local blasting ............................................................................................................................................ 232
19.1.2. Remote blasting ........................................................................................................................................ 234
19.1.3. Synchronized blasting (Multiple Commanders)......................................................................................... 235
20 DIGISHOT
®
PLUS 4G COMMANDER SYSTEM TROUBLESHOOTING .......................... 236
20.1. DigiShot
®
Plus 4G Commander System Troubleshooting: Reprogram required ................. 242
21 APPENDIX A – COMMANDER SYSTEM PRACTICAL TIPS AND HINTS ...................... 243
21.1. On Bench Delivery of Detonators ............................................................................................ 243
21.2. Distributing Detonators on the Bench ..................................................................................... 243
21.3. Priming with DigiShot
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Plus 4G Detonators ........................................................................... 243
21.4. Lowering Detonators into Drilled Holes .................................................................................. 244
21.5. Charging of Drilled Holes ......................................................................................................... 244
21.6. Stemming of Charged Holes .................................................................................................... 245
21.7. Tagging of Charged Holes with DigiShot
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Plus 4G Detonators............................................. 245
21.8. Harnessing of the Blast ............................................................................................................ 245
21.9. Testing of Blast Installation ..................................................................................................... 246
21.10. Testing lead-in wire and rolling out harness wire to Bench Commander position ........ 246
21.11. Connecting Harness wires to Bench Commander ........................................................... 246
21.12. Setting Up RF Communication .......................................................................................... 247
21.13. Basic causes of leakage .................................................................................................... 247
21.14. Leakage table...................................................................................................................... 248
21.15. Binary Search ..................................................................................................................... 249
21.16. High Leakage ...................................................................................................................... 250
21.17. Leakage through conductive materials ............................................................................ 251
22 APPENDIX B – ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS ................................................... 252
22.1. Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................ 252
22.2. Definitions ................................................................................................................................. 253