Sonde comparison between Ridgid M40 - Qyteco - Spartan Sentinel - Vivax Vloc3-cam Locator 

So I’ve never had any training or anything, I just bought it and figured it out haha. But all I do is first I aim the locator up in the air and push the plus button to basically max out the gain. Then when I get close and it’s at 99.9 I push the minus button until it’s less than 99.9. Then once I get a good front and back locate then I’ll move side to side and watch the numbers for the highest number then I put a marker in the ground. Whether that’s right or not I don’t know but that’s how I’ve been doing it and I’ve had my excavator guy I recommend dig many of them up and it’s been dead on every time so I must be doing something right haha

Thx for great tips. I’ll continue playing with it to get the hang of

I wish I had an answer for you, but I don’t have a scout to compare them

I wish I had the answer to that. But unfortunately I don’t have the micro or mini. I do however have the nano. I’m thinking about making another video like this with the nano and my huge uemsi camera

I was told that the sonde has improved since i got my original 21mm head but from the little test I did, it really didn’t seem to make a difference. When I was doing some testing for them, I told them they should try and improve the sonde but they’re kind of limited with the size of the head. I think they should put it in the spring like many other companies do and then make it as big and powerful as possible

@@terjavec Moving the sonde to the spring makes sense

I don’t have either of those but I’d assume it’s the sonde in the camera is weak. All of my cheaper cameras have weak sondes compared to my better cameras. I wish they would put better sondes in there cuz that’s the only reason I still keep ridgid and other cameras in my van

@@terjavec well that my im planning to get me a gen eye or ridgid sewer camera ,, but you know they are very high priced ,, so i would like to make a comparing between those camera ,, i like forbest they got good quality image and they affordable compare to ridgid or gen eye

@@carlossosa2940I have 3 ridgid cameras and I got them all off eBay. Sometimes you can get good deals

@@terjavec do you think is there any chance to put a ridgid or gen eye sonde transmiter on any other cheap camera ,, thats the only thing im concern about my forbest ,, giving me hard time to locate the sonde sometimes other than that ,, is all good

@@carlossosa2940 you could always duct tape a sonde onto one of those cameras.

I do but I prefer the regular head

No to my knowledge. That was one of my complaints to them. Almost impossible to see if you’re watching the playback on a phone. Also i told them they should have the video saved as something other than .avi. iPhones don’t recognize .avi so you have to convert it to .mp4 or something to view it

hello how good is this camera ,, is the cable good for long distance push ,,, i had a forbest 130 all in one but i want a longer cable 200 or at least 160ft

@@terjavec i had a forbest 3188 130 ft all in one and that was one of my concern the format avi cant play it apple quick time media player had to convert to quick time ,,

@@carlossosa2940 it all depends on the type of pipe and how many bends. I’ve pushed all my cameras all the way out except for the shitty yellow ones I have. Also it’s pretty simple to convert the videos to .mp4 with a free app. It’s just kind of a nuisance

@@terjavec thanks for your reply i had that forbest 130ft yellow cable and it was good had 2 cameras before one wiht the yellow cable and they sucks no wonder why they cost 200$but now i want something better so im thinking about get me a gen eye or ridgid or a forbest with 200ft . so i found a gen eye 200 ft wifi transmitter for 3k and a ridgid 130 ft 4k