brokenarrow
Full Member
- Jan 20, 2009
- 247
- 4
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett AT PRO
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I love my Ace 250 but it could use a few little extras like a backlight and a phone plug at the rear of the unit instead of up front where it gets tangled or pulled out. Besides I use a Garrett rain cover and it fits great except when you have your phones plugged in.Then the velcro cant fully be mated together. The plug i used is strait and doesn't interfere with the rain cover.
iwasn't very satisfied with just winding it down the shaft so i drilled a few holes on the shaft, used a couple grommets and ran it out the back under the arm cuff. There is already a couple of holes there pre-drilled in the shaft for cuff adjustments. All thats needed was drilling a hole in the lower cuff to align with the pre-drilled holes. Pull the wire through and give yourself enough wire to solder the female plug and place it under the cuff with velcro.i spent a total of $7.00 on parts.I went to a music store to buy the wire with the male stereo plugs factory installed. The setup was called a headphone extension. there are different lengths from 3 ft to 25ft. i just got the 3ft'er. Im sure there are many ways to make this set up,this is just my version. Your imagination and skill may take you in another direction as long as end result is the same.
Another small mod. i did was to snip off two of the grips on the lower shaft bolt.....Reason you ask,well i use the sniper coil pretty much as my main coil and it bothered me that wire that goes into the coil is sooo close to the bolt and if not installed right can rub or put undo pressure on that wire. Ive experienced this on another Garrett MD i had to replace the coil. I did this to the bolt on the second coil and i havn't had a problem with it ever since. So when i got the 250 thats the first thing i did. Hope this mod. helps. This is the only coil that has this issue,all other coils have ample room. The last thing i did was install an expandable wire tube to protect the wire when hunting in the brush. It works for me.
iwasn't very satisfied with just winding it down the shaft so i drilled a few holes on the shaft, used a couple grommets and ran it out the back under the arm cuff. There is already a couple of holes there pre-drilled in the shaft for cuff adjustments. All thats needed was drilling a hole in the lower cuff to align with the pre-drilled holes. Pull the wire through and give yourself enough wire to solder the female plug and place it under the cuff with velcro.i spent a total of $7.00 on parts.I went to a music store to buy the wire with the male stereo plugs factory installed. The setup was called a headphone extension. there are different lengths from 3 ft to 25ft. i just got the 3ft'er. Im sure there are many ways to make this set up,this is just my version. Your imagination and skill may take you in another direction as long as end result is the same.
Another small mod. i did was to snip off two of the grips on the lower shaft bolt.....Reason you ask,well i use the sniper coil pretty much as my main coil and it bothered me that wire that goes into the coil is sooo close to the bolt and if not installed right can rub or put undo pressure on that wire. Ive experienced this on another Garrett MD i had to replace the coil. I did this to the bolt on the second coil and i havn't had a problem with it ever since. So when i got the 250 thats the first thing i did. Hope this mod. helps. This is the only coil that has this issue,all other coils have ample room. The last thing i did was install an expandable wire tube to protect the wire when hunting in the brush. It works for me.