Mobile, lightweight deflectometers are among the latest and most advanced soil testing devices out in the market today. While traditional methods are preferred for their established effectiveness and wide acceptance, modern instruments also offer great things to be praised, especially when it comes to the technological advancements they offer over traditional methods. Dated instruments may have been the standard for the longest time, but there is also a lot to be said about their modern counterparts, which make work a lot easier and manageable for users. Portable light weight deflectometers, for instance, provide many notable updates to their heavy weight counterparts, making them more practical and even more suitable for certain construction, engineering, and design projects.
Light weight deflectometers use the same science behind conventional falling weight deflectometers, thus offering the same accuracy, if not a greater degree of precision when it comes to the results they return. These devices offer the great advantage of portability, making them more ideal for use in areas or locations that are simply impossible to reach via traditional falling weight devices and other measuring equipment. The sheer size and weight of other types of soil modulus measurement devices restricts their usefulness in many different types of project locations and applications.
Light weight deflectometers also don't require tedious set-up and calibration processes, which can take up a great deal of time. They don't require time and energy consuming safety tests and other manual set-up processes, which can lead to inaccurate results. Instead, these devices streamline the entire testing process by eliminating these pre-testing rituals, while still ensuring the accuracy of results. Light weight deflectometers are portable in design, which makes them suitable for single-person operation, unlike other devices that require a minimum of two people to operate. Finally, light weight deflectometers are not extremely technical to use, eliminating the need for long learning curves for users.
