BS 5547:1978

Withdrawn

Specification for portable bore-hole logging equipment (down to 300 m): general characteristics

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Withdrawn date

01-01-2007

Language(s)

English

Published date

06-30-1978

Publisher

British Standards Institution

Foreword
Cooperating organizations
Chapter I: General
1 Scope
2 Object
3 Terminology
4 Test conditions
5 Categories of instruments
Chapter II: Requirements
Section one. Probe
6 Shell
7 Detector and associated electronic circuits
8 Resistance to the environment
9 Instruction manual
Section two. Probe-surface connection
10 Supporting cable
11 Cable winder and bathymeter
12 Rigid or semi-rigid connecting device
Section three. Counting ratemeter
13 Digital counting ratemeter
14 Analogue counting ratemeter
Section four. Recorder
15 Potentiometric recorder (indirect acting)
16 Galvanoetric recorder (direct acting)
17 Paper driving
18 Marking
19 Environment
20 Instruction manual
Section five. Safety
21 Electrical connection of accessible external metal
parts
22 Protective device for accessible conductive parts of
live connectors (excluding safety extra-low voltage)
23 Marking
National appendix

The equipment consists of easily transportable autonomous components for measurement of rock radioactivity or for measurements concerned with the evaluation and working of deposits. The equipment includes measuring probes, a device for the mechanical and electrical connection of the probe with the measuring equipment; a radiometric indicator (counting ratemeter); and possibly a recording device (analogue type).

Committee	NCE/8
DevelopmentNote	Also numbered as IEC 60576. Supersedes 75/41204 DC. (08/2005)
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	28
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Withdrawn

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