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Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 04/08/2010 10:56:10 Reply \| Quote I'm going to take the plunge and get one of the all in one electronic survey gismo's. There are a number on the market, but only one makes use of a laser distometer as well. [web link] Has anyone ever come across this one or any of the others before? On another note, this system uses a Leica Disto A3 which is modified so that it will display the bearing and incline, all saved to memory, that can later be downloaded. There a a few on Ebay at the moment, but if anyone happens to have one...... let me know. -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 80.47.94.117
derrickman Joined: 18/02/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 04/08/2010 11:19:26 Reply \| Quote I've used a Leica Disto, in conjunction with a separate clinometer ( or sometimes one of those digital spirit levels ), for pipeline setting out for several years. They work very well. I'd be curious to see how this works out. IP: 94.101.70.84
SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 04/08/2010 17:45:45 Reply \| Quote Thanks for this Mr Mike, this system looks very interesting IP: 95.148.14.241
Tamarmole Joined: 20/05/2009 Location: Tamar Valley View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 04/08/2010 18:40:22 Reply \| Quote The disto x sounds an amazing bit of kit. If you do go down that route could you let us know how you get on with it. IP: 81.155.198.44
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 04/08/2010 18:44:23 Reply \| Quote Sure will, it will make life so much easier -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 80.47.58.66
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 05/08/2010 10:14:26 Reply \| Quote Just had a reply back about the conversion kit - no longer doing it due to obsolete parts, downer. But the guy is working on an updated one. However, I have asked about details on the parts to see what is missing - no details yet. I did look all of them up and it looks like it might only be the bluetooth connection chip, if that is the case then it might still be a goer, as that can be over come. Will keep you updated. -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 80.47.125.21
PeteJ Joined: 12/05/2008 Location: Frosterley, Durham View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 05/08/2010 14:00:44 Reply \| Quote There have been several interesting articles about using Distos in Descent magazine. Recommended reading. IP: 213.106.45.184
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 05/08/2010 14:07:12 Reply \| Quote There is of course an off the shelf solution: [web link] Cost.... US$ 1595.00 -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 80.47.125.21
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 12/08/2010 14:27:37 Reply \| Quote Managed to get a kit sorted, so back on track, just need to get the disto now, and super surveying we go. -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 80.47.59.234
SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 12/08/2010 14:31:03 Reply \| Quote Excellent. How did you get it sorted - did you have to build the missing part yourself? IP: 95.148.14.223
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 12/08/2010 14:34:43 Reply \| Quote I found the missing part and was going to get it from Germany, but then the guy who makes the kits, emailed me saying he had found another PCB which is working - bingo. -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 80.47.59.234
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 18/08/2010 10:04:40 Reply \| Quote Got the Leica Disto of Ebay, just waiting for it, and then need to fit the upgrade kit. The survey system also supports a little application running on a PDA, that plots your readings from the disto on the screen and allows you to make notes etc... So I suppose I will be needing one of these as well. Does someone out there have a working redundant PDA which is running Microsoft .Net Compact Framework that they would be willing to donate????? -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 80.47.115.30
Knocker Joined: 17/06/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 18/08/2010 11:32:31 Reply \| Quote You'll have to tell me a bit more about this on Mr Mike, I have a Bluetooth Leica Disto and a Bluetooth PDA. IP: 90.221.179.103
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 18/08/2010 12:05:19 Reply \| Quote Its not a simple case of Leica Disto and PDA, the Leica Disto I have just got will be converted to take a bearing and incline reading, which is stored and transmitted to a PDA. The kit is no longer available, I managed to get the last one, and only works on the A3 model. Have a look on the link at the start of the thread if you haven't yet. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick with your question? -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 80.47.115.30
SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 18/08/2010 12:07:46 Reply \| Quote Mr Mike wrote: So I suppose I will be needing one of these as well. Does someone out there have a working redundant PDA which is running Microsoft .Net Compact Framework that they would be willing to donate????? Not one spare I'm afraid, using a HTC Touch Pro 2 at the moment and most of my Windows smartphones have failed in one way or another (generally put down to a failure to sprout wings and fly). The .Net compact framework I've usually found to be pretty flakey though. IP: 95.148.13.236
Knocker Joined: 17/06/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 18/08/2010 12:12:59 Reply \| Quote Yeah I can see that Mr Mike, So why has he stopped making it? Leica actually do a Bluetooth Disto with directional elements now, be interesting to see if that could work with the software. IP: 90.221.179.103
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 18/08/2010 12:57:25 Reply \| Quote The chipset that he used for getting the compass and incline readings (the big feature was that you could do it in any direction - you did not have to keep it flat to get bearing) are obsolete now and not available, also the A3 disto is hard to come by as its discontinued. I believe he is working on modding another Disto with new chipset. I'ved looked at the Distos and can only find the D8 that has a 360Deg tilt, non of them seem to have bearing? Do you know which one does a bearing as well? I would imagine that since you need the electronics for the incline reading to make the bearing electronics work well, there is no point in modding a disto with tilt, and you might as well use a cheap model. If you can get a disto that give bearing, incline then I would imagine it would be relatively simple to get the data into the little app. -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 80.47.115.30
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 30/03/2015 14:33:47 Reply \| Quote Great, all my mine explorer friends in our club would like one. Do I get a discount if I order 5? Will they still work in the conditions of an abandoned mine? Neck deep water, lots of mud, are they falling rock proof - say massing 50kg? Thanks. -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 88.104.8.198
rufenig Joined: 18/03/2008 Location: Shropshire Hills View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Underground Surveying Posted: 30/03/2015 14:37:30 Reply \| Quote Any amount of information about the Distox and surveying. I am sorry it's part of the "dark web" no it's UK. Caving which is much more civilised now. http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?board=59.0 IP: 87.114.112.120

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