Excal II hip mount cable strain relief

[Mike(MI)]

Hi,
I am looking for some mods for strain relief on battery cable for hip mounted Excal II. I am now replacing my third battery cable on various Excal's and Minelab techs tel me that 90% of cable breaks are on hip mounted machines. He said that he had heard of mods by Excal owners that help alleviate the battery cable breaking from constantly flexing. Thanks for looking.

 

[OldBeechnut]

Use a better cable...I do agree that hip mounting is more stress full then the other on all the cables but I do think it also a issue of the cable that is used on the Excalibur II's is not suited for the job. I've made several PP kits that were hip mounted using cable that was made to flex.. Yet to have a return after 4 years. the early Sword model excaliburs are a perfect example ..Never after working on maybe 25 in the past years have I seen a bad coil cable, battery cable or head phone cable. When was the last time a Fisher, or Whites had a bad cable. I've never seen any.. So there is some logic to the numbers, it's the cable that is used, the source.

 

[Mike(MI)]

Thanks! I assumed the only place to get a repair was Minelab.
Not true? I guess I was looking for some type of re-enforcement to
stop cables from flexing now that I have the Minelab sub-standard cabling.

 

[treasure_hunter]

Swords also get the same shorts as the others, I have seen them as well.

 

[dewcon4414]

Joe...... conditions play a huge part. Im not sure of how many whites are hip mounted........ nor am i sure of how the Xcals compare to say a Sov hip mounted. However, tubes hip mounted generally spend a LOT more time under water than those shaft mounted.....then add the movement. Also i dare say there are a lot more Xcals out there than BHIDs and DFs. Early 90 model blue Xcals had some bad cable too..... store it and it got brittle.

Dew