my friend said this

strike it rich · Sep 13, 2007

my friend said if you attach another battery to your metal detector this equals more power more power = more depth he claims that this works because the circut boards have margins built in what do you think

disclaimer neither my friend the metal mod man or myself (strike it rich) I wish) can be held accountable should you try this mod and blow you metal detector to pieces or otherwise find yourself in a rage

hsjrev · Sep 13, 2007

From the Tesoro "Tech Tips" page on the company website:

In relation to batteries, I will mention one other thing that has happened many more times than most of you reading this will believe. Whether it is from a lack of understanding or actually thinking it might increase performance, many owners of instruments using two long packs of 4 AA batteries such as the Lobo, Golden Sabre II, etc., have substituted two 9V batteries in place of the two 6V packs. The unit is designed to operate on 12 volts and they try to operate it on 18 volts! I’m not saying this to make you laugh, because it’s certainly not funny when we receive these units with blown voltage regulators and other circuitry damage from the excessive voltage.

Dimeman · Sep 15, 2007

strike it rich said:
my friend said if you attach another battery to your metal detector this equals more power more power = more depth he claims that this works because the circut boards have margins built in what do you think

disclaimer neither my friend the metal mod man or myself (strike it rich) I wish) can be held accountable should you try this mod and blow you metal detector to pieces or otherwise find yourself in a rage

It WOULD produce more power for a fraction of a second then burn up some of the power circuitry in the detector, and you would have a nice NON-working detector.

Strike,
Do you lie awake at night thinking up these questions to ask or are you just kind of weirdly inquisitive

:P

notanothertodd · Sep 16, 2007

Sounds like your friend has found the secret recipe for magic smoke. Increase voltage with a set resistance increases current!! POOOF Magic Spoke :P

luvsdux · Sep 26, 2007

Be very suspicious of friends telling you things like this. You'll save money and grief by doing so. LOL
Bill

Ascholten · Oct 31, 2007

Some of the biggest idiots in the world... are friends....

The voltage regulator in your detector would regulate the voltage back down to what the decector was designed to run on... until it overloaded from the excessive input voltage and if you were lucky, blew a fuse, if you were not lucky, burned something up, now you have a nice repair bill, oh and they are NOT idiots at the factory, they know what you did to cause that kind of damage, you can also kiss any warranty you had goodbye at that point as well.

Listen to the manufacturer, they know much more about the product they sell, than any friend would.

Aaron

stefen · Dec 20, 2007

As Ascholten stated, 'Some of the biggest idiots in the world... are friends....'

Think about this, if the manufacturer'd design engineers thought they could increase the depth finding ability of a unit, they would have designed the circuitry accordingly.

hollowpointred · Dec 20, 2007

yup, it would not work and would fry your machine.

DeHunter · Jan 22, 2008

notanothertodd said:
Sounds like your friend has found the secret recipe for magic smoke. Increase voltage with a set resistance increases current!! POOOF Magic Spoke :P

Aahh Yess, The magic smoke !.. I guess you all know, that all electronic devices run on smoke... The smoke is kept inside and will make the equipment work very well. That is, until you let the smoke out. So , do not do anything to let that smoke out, like adding extra batteries or just shorting things out....

ps. kidding of course, sort of...

Zincoln Miner · Feb 23, 2008

I put dish soap in my gas to get my engine squeeky clean,besides the bubbles out my tail pipe is so way cool.

:P ::)

:P

truckinbutch · Feb 24, 2008

If it works;don't fix it.
If it dosen't work;get it fixed by a pro.
There is no 'Magic Button or Screw that's going to make your machine invincable.
If there was ,the mfg would have put it in already and charged more for it.

stanjam · Mar 28, 2008

Similar to overclocking a computer. Increasing the voltage CAN increase performance! However the only way to do this properly is in very small incremental steps until it gets unstable, then back off. If you try and boost the computer too much, it will just fry, melting the cpu into slag.

Same would be true for a MD. If there were a way to increase voltage by very small amounts it might be worth trying, but increasing it like suggested would almost certainly fry the machine!

strike it rich · Mar 28, 2008

stanjam said:
Similar to overclocking a computer. Increasing the voltage CAN increase performance! However the only way to do this properly is in very small incremental steps until it gets unstable, then back off. If you try and boost the computer too much, it will just fry, melting the cpu into slag.

Same would be true for a MD. If there were a way to increase voltage by very small amounts it might be worth trying, but increasing it like suggested would almost certainly fry the machine!

I tried my friends suggestion stuck an extra battery on old detector after about 5 minutes smoke started coming out but in the 4min 59 seconds before it was stable and detected way better