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Anyone know how to seperate the xs control from the handle??

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I peeked inside the explorer control to see what holds it to the handle and didnt see screws or anything holding it together.Anyone have info on how to get it apart?I want to put it into a water proof box.Any info will be appreciated.Thanks,Ralph
 
Ralph,
I've had mine apart several times, it's kind of a pain. Thinking.... I may have to run out to the car and grab my machine. There are no screws that hold the contol box to the handle. Remove the four screws holding the control box together. The front part will slide off the front of the handle when you remove the upper shaft, coil, and I think the camlock. The only wiring on the front part is the speaker and there is a plug to remove it from the main PC board. The wiring from the back half of the control box goes through a hole in the handle, you'll need to remove the handgrip cushion and take the handle apart. Most of the wiring is siliconed to one side of the handle so unless you break it all loose you still won't be able to seperate the control box. Not the best design, IMO. And putting it all back together and getting the wiring tucked away to close the control panel up is a bit tricky too. But it can be done. I broke the 1/8 headphone jack awhile back and replaced it with a 1/4 phone plug dongle, much sturdier.
Good luck
Chris
 
I have done it the hard way:
The coil connector and the + and - battery wires and the headphone wires have to be de-soldered and removed.I cut the wires so as they left me some reference colour "stubbs" to thier relative locations. Do not cut the coil connector if you intend to re-use it. Doing this is one of the ways that allows you to pull the control box off the handle assembley.
The HARDWAY:
I actually cut that area underneath where the cam lock is. Now there is turning back for my first explorer(unless I buy a new control box case from Minelab which is available at a price)Maybe you could purchase one of the control box cases that were replaced when the control boxes where experiencing that trouble with the cracking plastic.
There are a couple of other blokes I have seen on the FIND's Treasure forums who have made waterproof Explorers by sepearting them from the shaft. Personally I can say that I have NO regrets.
The Explorer is a brilliant underwater and wading detector.
Take note of it's location and there is one pair of wires that has a bleack band around it and record all your dismantling buy recording your voice( much like a fornsic pathologist or make a video or right it down , JUST REMEMBER WHERE EVERTHING GOES. That is the whole secret to a succesful dismantling and re-assembly.
It is actually very basic and you really only have to deal with:
The + and - wire for a power supply.
Speaker wire for the headphone( I now run the speaker out to my headphones and it is REALLY loud.
The coil conector is tricky and must be re-wired abosolutely correctly.You may wish to use an aftermarket one or the origianl one.
The result is a small control box that has a few wires comming out of it ready for water proofing. Be very careful. The Explorer electronics are bullet proof but need to be handled with care and attention and when done properly will give you a formidable detector for land and underwater use.
Have a good one
HARDNOSE
 
Where did you mount the 1/4 jack? didnt think there was room on the arm rest where the 1/8th jack is?
 
Hey Jim,
You are right, there is no room. What I mean by dongle is a socket on a wire. Bought a 1/4 stereo headphone extension cord and lopped it off about a foot from the female end. Fed it through the hole for the 1/8 jack, put on a strain relief, and soldered it to the minelab wires and tucked them in away in a cavity in the handle. I'm using a periscope and also changed the wiring so that the explorers' headphone wiring is compatible with that of the periscope. (Periscope will give you a patch cord that does the same, I didn't know that until after I performed the operation.)
I like the modification. Sunray Ralph was out of Explorer stands when the old jack busted so instead of replacing it I put on a more solid 1/4. Head phones plug in more securely and with the jack not physically attached to explorer you won't bust the jack when you bang the end into something. But if you got the Sunray stand probably not as much of an issue.
That was problably more than you wanted to hear.
HH
Chris
 
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