Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Here we are looking into a faulty PipeHawk II ground penetrating radar, recently acquired at an auction as non-working, no further description from the seller.
It was a bit of a gamble, but the asking price was so low that i simply could not resist bidding on it,
plan B would stripping it for parts, but we obviously try to fix it first.
It was quite challenging to get it apart for gaining access to the electronics compartment, required
to get the internal PC back to life.
Quite a clever design and not exactly obvious how things came together at the factory, it almost appears that someone tried to prevent the untrained folk to get the thing apart.
Meanwhile, we already got some life back into it, just waiting for some parts to get my trial fix right, then sorting out some other minor issues, thereafter we'll check it with some real (known) underground pipework and see how it performs
The next episode shows how we finally got it up and running, also going through some issues which were most likely the case that this equipment got abandoned.
(c) 2020
dynogy.co.uk
Here we are looking into a faulty PipeHawk II ground penetrating radar, recently acquired at an auction as non-working, no further description from the seller.
It was a bit of a gamble, but the asking price was so low that i simply could not resist bidding on it,
plan B would stripping it for parts, but we obviously try to fix it first.
It was quite challenging to get it apart for gaining access to the electronics compartment, required
to get the internal PC back to life.
Quite a clever design and not exactly obvious how things came together at the factory, it almost appears that someone tried to prevent the untrained folk to get the thing apart.
Meanwhile, we already got some life back into it, just waiting for some parts to get my trial fix right, then sorting out some other minor issues, thereafter we'll check it with some real (known) underground pipework and see how it performs
The next episode shows how we finally got it up and running, also going through some issues which were most likely the case that this equipment got abandoned.
(c) 2020
dynogy.co.uk
