Internal pots identification on Minelab Musketeer Advantage

[Mike95inNJ]

Hi. Can someone identify these pots? I think from this link I found they're GB, disc threshold, and all metal threshold.
The diagram in the pdf is different. I want to try the sensitivity adjustment on page 2 of the pdf and don't know which pot is what.
Any help would be helpful.
Thanks, Mike in NJ
http://home.earthlink.net/~puddlepirate/data/Super%2520Tune%2520the%2520Sterling.pdf

 

[thebeatmachine]

mark them with a sharpie and then adjust one at a time until you figure them out.

 

[Keith Southern]

The pots in the diagram are from a old musky green box.if you're advantage chatters at wide open sensitivity in disc mode then you wont see no additional depth gain.if its quite at wide oped sens or just barely chirping you can get 3-4 more inches out of it with the adjustments.

The pots have numbers on the side like 103 and 104 thats resistance 103 is 10K and 104 is 100K.just look at them and the threshold's are 104's the ground balance is 103 dont mess with it unless you want some problems.

If i remember correctly the disc thresh is the one in the middle just put it in disc mode turn sens wide open and turn clockwise on the pot if it starts to sizzle its the right one if not its the all metal one. then just go and try the other one and put that one back where it was at.all metal is about useless any way on the musketeers.


the advantages come from the factory allready tuned pretty hot since they have a manual ground balance and a DD coil they can take the extra juice.

The early metal box types are the ones that see the most gain from the tune up.Musky was green box. Sterling was blue box( Labeled coin hunter) and Tribune was green box built for European soil conditions ( must of had different ground balance setting)

Reason being the first ones from the factory were offered with a concentric 8x9 coil that was less than impressive in mineralized ground.So for one thing they would chatter pretty quick at high sens settings.then they came out with the excellent white 8 inch DD like the sovereign xs had.and they ran smooth in the bad ground but they left the setting like they were for the concentric and there was still no ground balance.A little later on in production some one figured out they could jump the power up more with the DD coil and some of the later muskys were put in a blue box like the sterling and the sterling and the tribune went to the wayside. But the blue box musky was super tuned out the door for there short lived life.

The the musketeer became the XS in the black Sovereign style box with green graphics on the face plate with numbers around the sens and disc.and a news thick style DD coil like the BBs coils the sovereign xs2 had.they were heavy but robust.Thes had more power like the advantage has now.
These first ones were in this big box but still had the little narrow circuit board that would fit inside the smaller earlier metal boxes.as they evolved they offered a colt with no ground balance and a xs with new graphics.And enlarged the circuit board to allign with the screw holes inside the case.

Then came the Advantage better battery system better poles slimline coils.But the circuit board still said musketeer xs. because that all an advantage is.about 2 years into production they finally got a board that says advantage but is the same as the earlier ones.

I think now the advantage is blue instead of gray but thats it.Sort of neat to look back and see how the current detector evolved.

Hope this Helps

Keith Southern

 

[Mike95inNJ]

Thanks Keith for your reply. A plethora of info. Just what I was looking for. I did try it out but like you said it already appeared to be tuned.
It's right where it's suppose to be. Love this Advantage. Nice addition to the arsenal. Good depth on high disc for the lazy times.
Thanks again. Great info.
Mike95inNJ

 

[Liz]

How did you get in the box! I cant get in mine. She said my threshold was stuck. I went and bought another metal detector but if I could fix my advanage i would.