Homemade ULTRA SENSITIVE Ground Listening Probe ~ Locate Buried Pipes!
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2023
- This DIY ultra sensitive ground listening probe makes finding water leaks, water lines, or sewer pipes that aren't buried too deep in the ground an easy task. Works really great up to 12" deep, but you can also detect deeper under very quiet conditions. Store bought listening probes with this level of sensitivity would easily cost several hundred dollars. If you're interested in making what you see in this video, you can click on the link mentioned in this video for more details as well as the schematic diagram. Enjoy the video!
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So much more sensitive than I thought it would be... Nice...
Thanks. This is a really neat modification to your listening device.
Wow, that's really sensitive. I wouldn't have thought that to be the case. I probably need to make one. Pretty cool!
Wide range of skills, thanks
I made a similar one decades ago from a kit in the uk. Comes in handy from time to time.
Good stuff. Will find your other video too ... and build one. Thanks. Cheers
Very nice good job Mr..amazing👍
Very cool, Scott! That probe could be used for all kinds of things, including diagnosing engine and vehicle noises to help isolate where the issue is. The noise of simply moving the grass and brushing the tree were amazing. If I ever need a device link that, I build one from your videos. I've made all kinds of DIY electrical/electronic projects. Back in the '70s and '80s, from magazines. In the '90s, I built a record player RIAA Curve Preamp to record LPs from a turntable directly into a computer Mic/Line In port. Without it, an LP, 45, etc. sounds tinny with no bass. It's an equalizer for vinyl records, needed due to the stamped/pressed vinyl compression. Bass signals are hard to produce in the grooves on vinyl, so they do it this way.
The problem with using it on an engine is that it's so sensitive all the engine noises are going to be extremely loud.
@@electronicsNmore I see. Thanks
Thanks for sharing
Wow, that is something, thanks
I'm in need of one of these now to locate a water leak!
Nice!
It's electronicsNmore ASMR. :D
I believe this is going to be my first DIY electronic build!
I own a mobile home park and it's always a pain trying to figure out where the water lines are, i believe this would be a fantastic device to help.
Amazing sensitivity. I've used a cheap "spy-mic" to locate electrical wires inside walls. As I move the mic around I can hear a buzzing from wires flowing with A.C. current. I think this thingie you made is much more sensitive.
Interesting. I know the electronics but never saw a device like that before.
Amazing thing!
It sure is. Thanks for watching Max!
Very nice! At my previous job we had a device similar to this one, it was used to listen for bearing wear and cavitation in water pumps.
Super
Glad you liked it!
Very, _very_ nice. Do you think maybe you could use 3 of them together in a system to so some triangulation and maybe determine exactly where in space the sound is originating from? That'd be awesome. Y'know there's potential here for searching earthquake rubble for survivors. Potential for all sorts of stuff. There's more than pipes under the ground ;)
I like that idea, but I don't think it would be too easy to do.
Or gophers
You would probably need a computer algorithm designed to measure the amplitude variations between the three, which would then triangulate on the source location... at least that would be the easiest way...
The utility locator pros use a sonic ping device that you connect into your pressure plumbing (such as a hose bibb or irrigation sprinkler) that signals a microphone such as you show to trace hidden pipes. This provides a strong and distinct signal versus your suggestion to listen for turbulence from a restricted running faucet. Cabled pipe inspection cameras will provide a 512 Hz battery-powered sonde that works similarly, for probing and locating non-pressurized drain pipes. The sonde is loud enough that you just have to sweep the sonic phase triangulating detector (two mics) above ground. By exciting a known frequency and filtering the received signal, the signal/noise ratio is greatly improved and noise rejected. These tools cost $$$$, but your DIY microphone improvisation is a decent approximation to that function. Perhaps you could come up with a DIY electronic pipe pinger or sonde to be a companion to the microphone.
If you're tracing lost shallow irrigation lines, the cheapest thing is to crawl around sticking a mechanic's stethoscope into the soil as a probe.
This is a great gadget. I would love to buy from you.
Unfortunately I don't have the time to make or sell them
great idea,, here up north the pipes are about 4 to 5 feet below
Glad you like the video! Yes I remember the sewer lines being pretty deep in New York
with a coax splitter on the output, and then to for instance Raspberry Pi with comms to relay data, have you done it?
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what battery has your amplifier?
how long cn you leave your device on rhe field?
Can you hear steps as well?
Is it stainless steel rod pipe please?
This is something I can use, do you have the spec sheet, or how to?
Or, is it something you are marketing?
Like I said in the video, there's a link at the end of the video you can click on for the schematic
@@electronicsNmore Thanks, I didn't hear/see it, will look.
No preamp? That piezo microphone goes right to the 386?
Please refer to my other video for the full schematic
Can I share this video?
Absolutely! Sharing is appreciated. Thank you
can we make it wireless? i mean the probe .
How much can u make me one?
Sir how can I get the schematic
Should be a link in the video description area
Did you find the leak?
No leak. It helped me locate my city water line which is PVC
Fantastic gadget! Definitely something I could use! Thanks for another terrific video!
The noise floor is so low!
I wonder if worms have ears. Imagine the sounds they might hear?