Night hunting/stealth TID for Sovereigns

[radarwill]

I've landed permission to hunt an area very near the center of our town that dates back to the mid 1700's.
I've been hunting it at night to keep a very low key.
I threw this meter together this week with stuff laying around at work. I'm not thrilled with the kit box, but it's what I had.
The red led's really stand out in the pitch black, but don't cast a lot of unwanted light
I just need to add a cal pot next to the on/off switch and it's finished.

The whole setup is a PIC Microcontroller, 12 bit A/D, and an array of 7 seg led's. It's powered from 3 AAA's which have a charging jack on the bottom of the meter box.
In software I do some averageing, so it's rock stable and works, IMHO, just as good as the Minelab one.

Any thoughts, comments, suggestions?

Thanks for looking and
HH
Will

 

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[Sandman]

The lighted meter would really help at night. I've been known to also use a large cardboard box to set around me to block light when I am retrieving a target so as to not attract undue attention.

 

[The.Boomer]

looks like a really well done mod, but only time and testing will tell.

 

[radarwill]

The lighted meter would really help at night. I've been known to also use a large cardboard box to set around me to block light when I am retrieving a target so as to not attract undue attention.

Haven't thought of that one. Now that's stealth.

 

[txkickergirl]

Yeah they won't mistake you for a treasure hunter behind a card board box, they'll think your just homeless
rofl

 

[radarwill]

Yeah they won't mistake you for a treasure hunter behind a card board box, they'll think your just homeless
rofl

^^^now thats funny.