I’m looking into purchasing some equipment to help survey for some small civil engineering projects. I would like to use a local/temporary base along with a rover. I planned on purchasing an RTK Facet for the base. My question is is it worth purchasing a Torch to use as the rover instead of another …

Hey crashingspoon, The RTK Torch has a few benefits over the Facet: Corrections without base station (though from testing, a base station within 2-4 miles will likely give you better results than PointPerfect over IP) Tilt Compensation (which we are quite proud of!) Completely waterproof (…

I’m looking into purchasing some equipment to help survey for some small civil engineering projects. On many of my Civil projects, we are generally just shooting site features and performing very basic Topo’s. Point Perfect (Facet L-Band or IP corrections w/ Torch) can save a lot of time and ha…

Thanks for the input. What kind of accuracy do you get with the L-Band? You’re right, we’ll mostly be shooting general site topography, ditch flow lines, etc.

swells: Hey crashingspoon, The RTK Torch has a few benefits over the Facet: Corrections without base station (though from testing, a base station within 2-4 miles will likely give you better results than PointPerfect over IP) Tilt Compensation (which we are quite proud of!) Completely wa…

crashingspoon: Thanks for the input. What kind of accuracy do you get with the L-Band? You’re right, we’ll mostly be shooting general site topography, ditch flow lines, etc. In this context, I prefer to speak in terms of precision and repeatability. For a quick mission that occurs in a couple …

I’ve contemplated the same question and think the Torch/Facet combo is the way to go. The Torch can be used solo as a rover with or without corrections subscription. It can be used in tandem with the Facet as a Base/Rover (with the addition of a telemetry radio for the Facet - the Torch has a built-…

A kit with a Facet and an Torch is indeed amazing tech for the price. Lots of options (network, L-band, local base, etc.) for RTK with the Torch as a rover. The Torch + a network correction service can get you tri-band (L1, L2, L5) RTK with tilt at a very reasonable cost. I will add that when usi…

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