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A question for you ACE 350 users.

I'm curious, at what point do you need to put in fresh batts? The manual says that low batts can be a problem, but it doesnt specify what LOW is. The scale has 4 bars, but what is considered low? Thanks.
Ken.
 
I change it out Ken at the 2 bar mark every time and never had a Problem, Hank
 
I experimented with my Ace350 once and kept using it until the detector stopped working.
Guess I was just curious as to what would happen. Really didn't notice any detection depth
difference right up to the point it stopped working. When I put in new batteries and turned it
back on it was really loud compared to what it had just been. So I believe the volume goes
down somewhat on very weak batteries. That was my experience anyhow.
Good hunting to you !
 
Thanks guys. :thumbup:
 
I just replaced my first set of batteries on the ACE 350, I noticed that the machine started to miss things in a known trashy area, also I started to wonder about depth, I had to play with the sensitivity and that caused the battery meter to flicker between one and two bars. So I replaced the batteries and the trash was back and so was the depth, normally I can walk across the park with the ACE on and a the coil a good two feet off the ground and it will pick up targets, lots of targets but when the battery was flickering between one and two the ACE was mostly quiet.

Back home I put the old batteries in an LED torch, the torch lit up but was not as bright as it should be, so I put the batteries in a toy that only uses one battery, two of the batteries were very low, one had more juice and one was great! I think that we can recycle the old batteries into an LED torch for night hunting to make the most of them before we dispose of them. Next problem not too many AAA LED torches out there!

Has anyone looked at recharageable batteries, a quick look at the one available in the supermarket yesterday showed that there were about six different types on sale some said that they could be recharded up to 12 times and some listed, running hours and one said "hundreads" of recharges. Basically they all claimed to be a clean green alturnative, also some of the batteries came with charges as a package deal.

Thoughts?
 
Lots of people use the rechargeable batteries and report no problems.
One that is listed at only 12 charges is likely some type of rechargeable alkaline
battery.. I don't consider that a true rechargeable..
One that is spec'd at a few hundred charges, like a ni-cad, nickle hydride, lithium, etc,
is what I call a rechargeable.
They save money if you do lots of constant hunting.
But.. I prefer to use alkaline batteries that I get cheap at the dollar store, and I
usually change them out at about 1/2 way on the indicator.
The reason, is I prefer the higher voltage that you get from the alkaline cells,
vs most of the rechargeable cells.
I feel there could be a slight depth edge when using the higher voltage.
The Ace 250/350's are designed to run on 6 volts. Which is the voltage you
get when using four alkalines. "4 x 1.5 volts".
If you run rechargeables, most do 1.2 volts per cell. So instead of 6 volts, you
would get 4.8 volts.
Of course, the alkalines will drop when they see some use, and the rechargeables
tend to hold the voltage a bit flatter when they discharge, which is why I change about
1/2 down. I'll have to see what my voltage is when half run down.. I've never checked it..
New alkies will actually be a bit higher when new, and no load.. 1.6 volts a cell is
not unusual. When a alkie discharges, it's a real gradual, but steady decline.
Most rechargeables stay fairly level until the end, and then they go kaput real fast.
I often use the Ray o Vac "Gold" alkalines.. I think that's the brand anyway..
I get them two for a buck, and my machine seems to like them.
 
I took Uncle Willy's advice and bought a radio shack battery tester and it has paid for itself many times over what I paid for it. Sometimes just one battery will be bad and why throw away the good ones? It sure saves a lot of money.
 
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