stevemc
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2005
- Messages
- 2,121
- Reaction score
- 279
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Sarasota, FL
- Detector(s) used
- Whites Surfmaster PI Pro and Whites Surfmaster PI, Minelab Excal NY blue sword. 2 White's Dual field pi, Garrett sea hunter pi II (but don't use it for obvious reasons) 5' x 3 1/2' coil underwater Pi
- Primary Interest:
- Shipwrecks
Yes, Aqua headphones, and the number is 198. I bought it from Mel Parker, and he said it was a Gary Storm model / New York model, apparently the first style of Minelab Excal. It is a good one, only problems were saltwater in battery connection-fixed with silicone grease, and where I cut the coil wire and put on a connector, bending the coil cable too tight-the coil cable is only about 42" long, and when I put in the connector and taped it to the body, the sharp bend over a year caused a wire to break inside. I took everything apart, and straightened out the wire and it works fine, I cant make it do what it was doing, but I plan to replace a majority of the coil cable with shielded Cat 6a patch cable, to stop crosstalk and extend the cable so I can use a straight shaft and have the control unit behind my elbow. I dont know why they would make it with non-shielded transmit and receive. Another weak spot in this unit, the non-shielded wires, and the lousy loose jacket. I know most strong PI units have shielded coil cables so the they dont have alien crosstalk and crosstalk, they only want it to receive through the coil, not the cable.
