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Anyone with a Excal, I have a question?

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G. Edwards

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Does anyone know if when your rechargeable battery gets low but still runs the detector and doesn't give the alarm squawk yet, does the detector run alittle unstable no matter where the sen. is set? Mine did that to day and I switched to the alkline battery and it smooth right out. Or do you think the rechargeable is taking a dump? Thanks, Gene
 
Gudday Gene,
My B'day was on Sunday and I was going to, no matter what, get some hunting time in regardless.
I started out OK then I couldn't work out what was happening,The machine was so unstable for about 10 mins or so then the
alarm squawk chimed in. Hunting time over in less than15min. so I guess the answer to your question is yes.
I was beginning to think the batteries have had their life and decided to pack it in. I swear I charged it up the night before
but later found out the wife removed the charger and replaced it with her mobile phone charger instead.
Anyway Gene, good on your future hunts mate.
Cheers and HH
aushunter:ausflag::minelab::bounty:
 
The Excalibur does not have a battery indicator per say but it lets you know by going unstable when the batteries go low. Charge them up an your are good to go. I bought an extra rechargeable pod for the excalibur so I can keep going.
 
Gene, I'm thinking your running the excal II - not the blue one. There is a difference in the two as far as low battery. The excal II thresh-hold will get louder, you will no longer be able to turn it down as the battery depletes almost to the point of deafening you, and will not be stable. The older blue excall will emit a whopping sound every 30 seconds declaring a low battery much like the GT. So yes that's an indication of a low battery on yours.
 
depending how far you are to the beach, i bought a car inverter (turns the car battery juice to 120 volt) and plug in the after market fast charger from battery's plus that i use to charge up my excal - so in the 30-45 mins it takes to get to the beach, I'm green and ready to go when i get there - i may be wrong but believe you get more depth from fully charged batteries....
 
Thanks much guy's, I didn't know my Excal II didn't have the low battery alarm. It did just what you said, got louder unstable and you can't turn it down. I think I will get one of those after market fast charge batteries. I chest mount my Excal II so I also have my akiline pod mounted on it too. so I just switched and Keep on hunting. Thanks again for everyones input. Gene
 
My old original Excal and my new Excal II both would get an increase in threshold tone as the battery depleted. Stability would only suffer in the last few minutes of operation before the death squeal.
 
Hi barryny mate be very careful doing that as some rechargeables are slow charge only ,and if your pack is genuine m/lab they will be only slow charge eg.overnight ,and one question does the pack get hot?? if so you are slowly killing the pack.terry in oz:ausflag:
 
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