Triplett Fox & Hound HotWire – PN: 3388 - Manual (Page 25)

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HotWire Fox connected to boundary wires
HotWire Hound locates boundary
wire using null method.
Improving Null with Earth Ground
When tracing a wire and the actual earth ground is available, it may be possible to improve the null effect
and create a stronger tracer signal for the HotWire Hound to pick up. It’s important that ‘actual’ earth is
used…. not a wire leading to the earth. An ‘actual’ earth is the soil itself, or concrete laid on the soil (like a
garage floor or a factory floor).
When the actual earth is available, lay the HotWire Fox on the earth and connect the 5’ black lead to the
HotWire Fox’s black pigtail, and string the black lead out on the surface of the earth. In the following
photo, the black lead is coiled up. This is just so it fits in the photo. It will work better if it is strung
straight out.