Locate apparatus having advanced features for underground facility locate operations

摘要

Disclosed herein is a locate transmitter for performing a locate operation to detect a presence or absence of an underground facility, the locate transmitter comprising: transmitter circuitry configured to generate an applied signal to be applied along the underground facility; an input device to provide an output signal indicative of at least one environmental condition of an environment in which the locate transmitter is located; a memory to store processor-executable instructions and a target value or range of values; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the input device to receive the output signal from the input device wherein, upon execution of the processor-executable instructions, the processor: A) compares the output signal to the target value or the range of values to determine if an out-of-tolerance condition exists.