Tracer Wire For Water Pipes

Copperhead industries introduced copper clad steel tracer wire to the underground construction industry in 2004.

Tracer wire for water pipes.

If you are planning on burying the wire 12 gauge insulated copper wire open to the ground at the far end is a great choice. Their unique construction gives unparalleled reliability and yet allows both line tracing and the all important end tracing using the remarkable sonde technology housed at the very tip of the tracers. Since then copperhead has expanded its solutions in the water wastewater gas and telecommunication industries to cover multiple applications and technologies. Tracer wire which is also called locating wire or locator wire is used to assist in locating pipes and other lines after they ve been buried in the ground.

Using a spacer taping the tracer wire to the pipe every 8 10 feet in the three o clock position or specifying fill between the pipe and tracer wire are all acceptable practices. Tracer wire is also known as locating wire or locator wire because it locates pipelines or pipe after burial. The electrical wire tracer is laid alongside the pipes or lines during installation in order to find them at a later date for safe digging. Make sure your tracer wire jacket is designed for direct bury.

Contact with the pipe is allowed but shall be minimized. Install tracer wire along the pipe above or to the side of the pipe. In any case do not use thhn. Splicing of wire if necessary shall be done in such a way to produce an electrically and mechanically sound joint.

Once a pipe is laid down tracer wire is placed along it s length and buried next to the pipe. Thhn is a nylon coating and quickly deteriorates in the soil and sunlight and will leave you with an unlocatable system in less than 5 years. Install tracer wire as a single continuous wire. Recommended 2 6 separation.

Then choose the right type of ccs tracer. Underground tracer wire is available in sizes 14 through 6 awg in an array of colors depending on the intended use. High density polyethylene hdpe is the most common for direct bury. When laying pe pipe in the ground tracer wire is buried alongside the pipeline and if the line needs repair or maintenance an underground wire tracer or above ground wire detector can locate the non energized pipe.

This wire is what s actually searched for if the pipe itself needs to be located hence. The red wire is for electric. Yellow is for gas orange is for communication blue tracer wire is for potable water and green is for sewer.