A report on my X-1 probe after receiving it from Sunray

[Digger22]

I sent my probe to Sunray and aAfter Ralph received the probe and did a lot of testing he told me he could find nothing wrong with it. After a lengthy conversation, it was decided to send it back to me to give it another try, and see if I could duplicate the calliope sounds that I had with it before I sent it in.

I went out in the yard a while ago with my Exp II (without the x-1 on it) and found several hits (I new about where they were) and marked them with a golf tee. I put the X-1 on and the Explorer responded great. There was no difference in performance with it or without it, except that a very usable probe was there for me.

I spoke with Ralph a few moments ago, and he agrees that the only possibility was the connectiors probably weren't tight.

After hunting with the explorer using my detectorpro uniprobe, I have really come to appreciate the X-1.

I want to take this opportunity to say that Ralph at SunRay is a super nice and very thorough person to deal with.

Ralph tried my x-1 on a couple of his machines and to me this is going above and beyond.

Thanks Ralph

Roy

 

[Ralph Sun Ray]

The connectors Roy is referring to are the coil connector which inserts into the chassis connector on the X-1 switch box and the internal curled connector which we have inserted into the upper shaft of the detector which connects into the Explorer/Safari/E-Trac housing chassis connector. It does not refer to the pig-tail strain relief black plasitc nuts which keep the coil cable from moving which are located at the probe end and switch box end of the probe cable. Those should never be tightened past factory pre-sets (a couple of threads should be left showing). Over tightening those plastic nuts will cause extra pressure and eventual wire breakage in the cable in those areas.

Ralph (Sun Ray)