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Video - [1]
Tracer wire (blue) is required for potable water, sewer (green), gas (yellow).
Tracer wire is not required for electrical.
- Mike Holt 2008 - warning ribbon is required for direct burial cables, whether in conduit or nott? [2]
- This one says warning tape is not needed if you use conduit [3]
- Practically speaking, warning tape is useful. Use 12" or more above the line. [4]. Point is: someone WILL dig your lines in the future. Things are modified all the time. If I had warning tape here, I would know where the first grid extension is. Now, I have to rely on a metal detector or other means.
6 colors all together - [5]

Different techniques are used. Radar can find pipe, or induction-based emitter/sensor. Or the tracer wirewhere you connect to a wire. [9]
There is jetting-vaccuum to dig in sensitive areas. Could do pressure washer as needed.

It's the jacket: dog fence, which claims most reliability for burial - is 14AWG XHD [10]. They say that THHN (thermoplastic high heat nylon) is inferior to XHD - ot doesn't last underground
The above indicates no difference between dog fence and tracer wire.

Useful Amazon reviews - clip to ground and wire you want to trace. Then use the sensor. [11]
Harbor Freight [12] - manual []
You energize a wire and use a detector - [13]
Another - [14]

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 **Mike Holt 2008 - warning ribbon is required for direct burial cables, whether in conduit or nott? [https://forums.mikeholt.com/threads/300-5-d-3.50604/]
 **This one says warning tape is not needed if you use conduit [https://www.neca-neis.org/code-question-of-the-day/code-question/cqd-for-4-9-2010#:~:text=The%20National%20Electrical%20Code%20(NEC,placed%20in%20the%20trench%20at]
-**Practically speaking, warning tape is useful, if more than 1' above the line. [https://forums.mikeholt.com/threads/warning-tape-for-underground-conduits.93131/]
+**Practically speaking, warning tape is useful. Use 12" or more above the line. [https://forums.mikeholt.com/threads/warning-tape-for-underground-conduits.93131/]. Point is: someone WILL dig your lines in the future. Things are modified all the time. If I had warning tape here, I would know where the first grid extension is. Now, I have to rely on a metal detector or other means.
 *6 colors all together - [https://www.kristechwire.com/resources/tracer-wires/?gclid=CjwKCAjwiJqWBhBdEiwAtESPaNxo0LlQ7R4n6TjvW4RsfSVnAQWUa1NNbaNGWq7NnZS90ua1iN_DEBoCCCMQAvD_BwE]
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