New Generation Electronic Detonators Draw from Over 160 Years Experience
For more than 160 years, the worldwide Davey Bickford Group has been a leader in the explosives industry, offering the latest technological advancements. For the mining, aggregate and construction markets, today’s Davey Bickford Global e-Technology Solutions include the high-accuracy Daveytronic® Digital Blasting System. By offering detonator accuracies of up to 0.1 ms, the system allows customers to increase blast performance, reduce vibration levels and achieve a high degree of operating safety.
New for 2007, the Daveytronic® III Digital Blasting System takes operating flexibility and safety to new heights. This new system offers timing delays from 1 to 13,000 ms, programmable in 1 ms increments, delivering extreme flexibility for planning large, complex and intricate blast designs. In addition to its field-proven two-capacitor, two-way communication system, the Daveytronic® III detonator features an exclusive smart shunt that permanently protects the fusehead up to firing time, significantly enhancing safety.
Employing a user-friendly Windows™ operating system, Daveytronic® 2D, the latest Davey Bickford software innovation, substantially increases blast design and programming efficiency. The software’s unique import file converter enables technicians to import hole coordinates and data files from multiple formats and is compatible with most blasting software and mining AutoCAD programs. Once the blast is configured, technicians are able to remotely detonate single or multiple shots from up to 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away from the pattern with Davey Bickford’s new Daveytronic® Wireless Blasting System.
The introduction of the high accuracy Daveytronic® Digital Blasting System is reinforcing proper timing as a fundamental element of efficient blast design. Field studies have shown that use of the Daveytronic® electronic detonators can deliver more uniform muck piles, improve rock fragmentation by up to 25%, reduce vibration levels as much as 48%, lower excavation and crushing costs up to 15%, reduce powder factors by as much as 25%, and enhance blast casting efficiencies by as much as 45%.
In order for operations to maximize the benefits gained through the use of the high-accuracy electronic detonators, Davey Bickford USA also offers the Daveytronic® Solutions program. With this program, seasoned consultants work with technicians to control and reduce vibration levels, boost rock fragmentation, improve wall control and enhance cast blasting efficiencies to optimize blast performance.