System Description

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Selections: When 1 is pressed then the Tagger will display the following:

 Use Markers: When the Use Markers option is enabled (Black filled rectangle) the tagging screen will

contain a SoftKey to allow the simultaneous marking and tagging of a detonator. “Mark detonators” menu

includes more types of markers besides “End of Line” which typically is assigned to the detonator

connected last on a wire harness

 Multi-Ranger: When this option is selected, the user may tag more than 2 channels and up to 1200

detonators on a single Tagger. If not selected it will stop and provide a warning when more than 4 channels

are allocated, and more than 1200 detonators are being tagged.

 Autotag: If the Autotag option is disabled (White filled rectangle), tagging can only be performed on the

pogo pins, and not by connecting a detonator onto the harness wire. (It is not practical to connect and then

remove the detonator from the harness wires).

 Multi-Primed: When this item is enabled one can load more than one detonator per hole and tagging can

also be restricted to a deck only if necessary.

 Assign Locations: With large blast designs, the plan may not be complete at the time of tagging and to

speed up the process, tagging can be conducted in parallel with drilling. If this item is checked, the “Tag

Detonators” menu will only write the locations in the detonator.

 Halt on Test: When this option is enabled (Black filled rectangle) this allows for Tagger to stop during

testing processes when an error has taken place until the user acknowledge.

 List Hole Configuration: Allows users to define a hole configuration.

A hole configuration consists of the number of decks in a hole, the number of detonators in each deck and

the time offset of each deck.

The system allows more than one hole configuration to be defined but only one can be employed at the time

of tagging.

When the plan is available later, the tagging must be completed using the tagger to

“Assign Delays” (as the Ranger does not have the option to time dets) in order to prepare

the detonators for the blast.