Excal ll 1000 spare battery

[Rocky!]

I am wondering if there is a better/same after market battery that I can use as a back up to the Manufacturer's supplied battery?

Sometimes after being in fresh water for a couple, up to five hours at a time, I have to keep adjusting my sens and threshold to keep the unit running smoothly and I'm wondering if it's the battery, the direction I'm heading, the change on the bottom of the lakes, or the unit itself and the way it's quirkiness runs from time to time??? Sometimes this unit hums to perfection and I know I'm hearing every target that's in the water that isn't being discriminated, and just as quickly, I feel I'm missing everything under the water....just me, or do you have to keep adjusting those two knobs also???
I am having sensational luck with this unit and am totally thrilled with all the finds, just trying to keep it running that way at all times.. )

Rocky!

P.S. I run my disc @ 1, Sensitivity between 11 and 1 0'clock, volume between half and 3/4, and threshold 1/2 to 3/4 depending on the amount of clarity I get on the bottom of the fresh water lakes.... (sand, clay, rocks, and packed misc fresh water shells)

 

[tomcatpl]

spare battery http://cgi.ebay.com/1600mA-NIMH-BATTERY-FITS-MINELAB-EXCALIBUR-MODEL-1000-/380298782833?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item588b92e871 but u will need to get ur self a alcaline baterry pack and put this inside


if ur talking about the tresh changing tones that its normal

my settings

disc 1
sens 11----12 oclock
valume full

 

[Rocky!]

Thank you Mr.T... where would I get an empty alkaline battery pack to use this with??

Thank you,

Rocky!

 

[tomcatpl]

their are hard to find used new one is about 70-80$ post up on the merchandise forum maybe u get lucky

 

[Rick(ND)]

n/t

 

[Rocky!]

Hi Rick, what were you thinking you might have to have for the extra battery?

Thank you,

Rocky!

 

[Rick(ND)]

n/t

 

[kered]

Sometimes on a real cold day or in cold water on a sunnyish day i have to adjust very slightly, i think it may be just the detector warming up or evening temperature and getting to working temp for the first half hour or so, also as you detect you get more tuned in to the threshold and may have to turn it down, also mineral changes in the ground may cause the need some slight adjustment, but in non of the forementioned examples is the adjustment major, just small tweeks. Ive found it more so since i did the peltor mod as you can hear the suttle changes better above the wind and waves.

 

[Rocky!]

Thank you very much Kered!!! I am getting used to it slowly but surely. One thing I know for sure is that after finding 21 rings so far this spring, (3 more today), this machine is a keeper!!!