Service
Street lighting
17 things filed against this subject, in every format the Bureau holds.
Mini Quick CourseGetting a Signal On
The four ways to put a signal on a buried service, what each one needs to work, and the order to try them in.
Mini Quick CourseLocating Street Lighting
One connection at a lighting column can hand you the whole street. Six steps on why you start there, how the lighting is wired, and getting a signal onto the column.
Getting the Best From a Genny: Connection, Clamp and Induction
A full run through signal application: the site survey first, then direct connection, the signal clamp and induction, with street lighting worked through including how a looping in and out system behaves.
Watch 1:07:19 →Power and Radio: What the Passive Modes Miss
Why passive scanning is not enough on its own. What Power and Radio modes can and cannot see, why the same cable answers differently at different times of day, pot ended cables, and what the twin aerial design is doing.
Watch 47:01 →Reading Utility Plans: Loop In Loop Out, Teed Off, and Tracing HV
Getting what you need out of a utility plan before the kit comes out: how street lighting is wired either looped in and out or teed off, what the voltage tells you, and the pre-planning that decides where you connect.
Watch 27:07 →Where to Earth the Genny Near a Lighting Column
Where the earth lead goes when you are connected at a lighting column, and what happens to the signal when it goes in the wrong place.
Watch 2:07 →Dual Frequency: What the Genny4 Actually Sends
The Genny4 sends two frequencies at once. What each one is for, why the higher one jumps gaps, and when dual frequency helps or misleads you.
Watch 2:17 →The Earth Spike, the Signal Clamp, and the Appliance Safety Check
The earth spike making the CAT more accurate, the signal clamp around a pipe or cable, and the safety check with the customer first.
Watch 1:22 →Earthing the Genny: Close, Not Far
Where the earth pin actually goes: close to the column, not metres away. The myth, the demonstration, and water as an earth when there is no soft ground.
Watch 2:59 →Holding the CAT: Waist Height, Housing Parallel
Waist height, the flattest part of the housing parallel to the ground, pointing along the walk. Small habit, big difference to what the CAT hears.
Watch 0:42 →Pre-Use Checks in the Field: Inspection and the Service Due Date
The visual inspection before the kit comes on, checking the service due date on the CAT display, and the checks that take a minute and are not optional.
Watch 1:29 →Why You Start at the Lighting Column
Why the survey starts at the lighting column: one connection asks the whole street how it is wired, whatever the answer turns out to be.
Watch 3:22 →Voltstick First, Then Connect: Street Furniture Direct Connections
Before touching or connecting to any metallic surface: voltstick. Then the direct connections that put a real signal on street furniture.
Watch 1:32 →Direct Connection: Street Lighting, LV and Telecoms
Setting up and earthing the Genny4, connecting at a lighting column, what to do when the column is concrete, gas risers, and the approvals you need before a telecoms lid comes up.
Watch 6:06 →Getting the Best Out of Your Genny and CAT
The full webinar. Signal application from first principles: why you start with street lighting, the two ways lighting is wired, dual frequency, earthing the transmitter, induction against direct connection, and where the signal actually goes once you have applied it.
Watch 1:12:19 →How Long Should a Scan Take?
The question with no number in the answer. In a field you could almost set a time per mode. In a street the plans and the street decide it, because they tell you how many services there are to find and how many connections that means.
Read →Test Before Touch: A Recommendation to Adopt Voltsticks
Why anyone working on electrically connected street furniture should carry a voltstick: the risk, the fix, and how to roll Test Before Touch out across a workforce.
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