Minelab has asked me to remind everyone that if you are going to use your Lithium Ion Pocket Rocket secured to the side of your detector under no circumstances use the curly power cord !
They have had several incidents now where the metal detector blew a fet, because the machine was shorted out from wrapping the curly cord around the control box of the detector.
Curly cords are not meant to be wrapped around a detector box, this puts a stress on the cord that it was not meant to withstand, and it can cause the cord to short out.
Now please understand, this is not a fault of the Pocket Rocket Lithium Ion Battery System, the same thing would happen if you were using a lead acid battery and wrapped your curly cord around the control box.
If you are going to mount the Pocket Rocket to the side of your machine, then use the short power cord that COILTEK manufactures which can be used for this purpose. It goes right from the Pocket Rocket regulator, and goes right into the detector, with no need to wrap the wire around anything.
The short cord is $17 plus $3 for regular postal mail. Or you can make your own. Use some heavy shielded cable with four wires about 10 inches worth. Use a four pin female plug on each end. The voltage is carried, Red to pin 1, and black to pin 4. Your audio is carried to pins 2 and 3, but I can't remember which is the tip and which is the ground.
Thanks!
DOC
They have had several incidents now where the metal detector blew a fet, because the machine was shorted out from wrapping the curly cord around the control box of the detector.
Curly cords are not meant to be wrapped around a detector box, this puts a stress on the cord that it was not meant to withstand, and it can cause the cord to short out.
Now please understand, this is not a fault of the Pocket Rocket Lithium Ion Battery System, the same thing would happen if you were using a lead acid battery and wrapped your curly cord around the control box.
If you are going to mount the Pocket Rocket to the side of your machine, then use the short power cord that COILTEK manufactures which can be used for this purpose. It goes right from the Pocket Rocket regulator, and goes right into the detector, with no need to wrap the wire around anything.
The short cord is $17 plus $3 for regular postal mail. Or you can make your own. Use some heavy shielded cable with four wires about 10 inches worth. Use a four pin female plug on each end. The voltage is carried, Red to pin 1, and black to pin 4. Your audio is carried to pins 2 and 3, but I can't remember which is the tip and which is the ground.
Thanks!
DOC