HotRodder
Jr. Member
- Nov 14, 2006
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- Detector(s) used
- White 5000/D CoinMaster GEB/TR Disc.
White's 5000 /D GEB
I was given this White 5000D GEB and I'm wondering if anyone on here as used this detector. I think it is supposed to have a 12 volt battery but I seem to be able to run it on a 9 volt. Would it make any deference in finding stuff if I put a 12 v battery in it. Sofar it works quite good on 9 V.
I was given this White 5000D GEB and I'm wondering if anyone on here as used this detector. I think it is supposed to have a 12 volt battery but I seem to be able to run it on a 9 volt. Would it make any deference in finding stuff if I put a 12 v battery in it. Sofar it works quite good on 9 V.
I have the Sears version of the Whites 5000 TR and it takes BOTH a 8 AA pack AND a 6 AA pack. So 12 volts and 9 volts are needed to run this baby. I don't know if yours is the same but it may be. How many battery connectors are there in the case? Mine has two, one white and one black. I forget which is for what voltage but it is easy to find out when you connect the connectors. Mine also has a single AA holder for testing the batteries one at a time, pretty neat for an old detector. Whites still supports this model and the 6 AA battery holder is $3.95 from them. Order spares and keep them since they do break every once in a while! Great detector!
I don't know why I didn't think of this till now but...on the top right switch on my 5000 TR it has four positions: Far left is OFF, next over is test of 9Volt battery pack and then the next over is test of the 12Volt battery pack. Far right switch position is ON. Read the switch positions and see what is there. Too simple and I feel dumb for not thinking of this till now. LOL. I used my 5000 TR this past week on a trip to Alabama. My sister is now the happy owner of my Sears/Whites 5000 TR. We hunted an old farm by her house for about four hours and found a lot of interesting items but no coins or jewelry. She hit on a solid signal and I checked it with my SovGT and it was LOUD. We dug down about two feet and found a brick laying flat. We removed the brick and there was a hole under it. Turned out to be a large iron pipe stuck in the ground vertically with the brick on top to keep the dirt out. My guess is there is something in the pipe but we couldn't dig up the back yard to find out. After an hour or so of trying to get the dirt out of the pipe with our trowels we gave up and put the brick back in place and buried it. It is not a septic tank or anything like that since this house was built around 1900. The sewage system is a net of underground pipes that drain all the icky stuff into the ground in a nearby field. SO...who knows what we left behind? I sure wanted to dig it up but I doubt the landowners would have appreciated it. Maybe next time? Anyway, the 5000 is an excellent machine and screams when it hits a target. Discriminates well and I would guess the depth of detection for a dime sized object at around 6 inches. All in all an excellent machine!
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