:minelab: How do you keep your SE cool???

[Jaichim24]

So, I find myself wondering what long term damage I may be doing by keeping my detector in my car at all times. Is anyone else doing this? My car sits out in the parking lot at work all day long, and on hot days I know it gets burning hot in my car. I have a Prius, so it's not in a trunk, but it is in the back with a privacy visor pulled over it. It technically is in the "shade" but I know what my car feels like when I get into it. I just had to send my X-1 Probe back to be replaced, one thing that happened in the last 3 week or so is the probe somehow acquired a curve to it, presumably because it was so hot the plastic started to melt.

My house is pretty small, and there is no real place for me to keep it in-between hunts. If I bring it inside it is exposed to a curious 6 year old, and 2 year old. The 6 year old I bring out hunting so is more apt to play around with it.

I can't really leave it in my garage, as it most likely will get just as hot in there as it does in my car.

I think I remember seeing a post somewhere that someone created a storage system with a large cooler, I'm thinking about doing that.

What do you all do if anything to keep your detector in moderate temperatures. In theory, if you beach hunt for 4 hours, you're exposing it to extreme heat as well.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Jai

 

[Jaichim24]

Well, I just took a digital thermometer and placed it in my car, in the trunk area and the back seat. Temp peaked at 122 degrees F. Ouch, definitely need to find an alternative solution.

 

[Jaichim24]

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[MHirschmann]

I know this is a slightly over-the-top solution but I have this on my car and it would work for your situation. I had a remote starter installed in my car. You can start your car from over a mile away and turn it off as well. In the summer I have it preprogrammed to run for 10 minutes every 3 hours (or you could do it remotely) and in the winter I have it preprogrammed to run for 15 minutes once I activate it from my key fob. You just have to choose heat or cool before leaving your car and the car will do this. This was especially important for me when I lived in Florida as my car got burning hot standing in the sun. This can cause damage to various components of the vehicle and so the remote starter made sense. You just leave the car when you park it with the AC on full blast, the key fob has a temp sensor that is included in the module that is in your car. When your temps get high, your key fob will tell you the exact temp on its digital screen and you can run your ac, from your office, for 10 mins or so until the temp comes down. This will, of course, burn some extra petrol but I have found it to be minimal. The other nice thing is you will never come back to a car that is steaming hot and hard to breath in and in the winter you will always come to a toasty car. Just a thought, whether or not this is a solution is up to you but the units vary in price and start at about $200, installed, from the ones available around here. Hope this helps. -Marc

 

[stasys]

dont worry its not problem, one thing you can do, use sleeping bag to put detector in and safe from fast cooling or heating.

 

[dewcon4414]

Heat especially that kind of heat is never good for a sensitive piece of electronics. I suggest you find some place where the kids cant get it. Your probe should be a wake up call. Stasys may have a good idea as we.. it not only protects it but may hide it from sticky fingers.

Dew

 

[Jaichim24]

Well, to start, I put my detector equipment in the garage before I left for work this morning. I replaced it with med/large sized cooler chest.

Put the thermometer in the car back seat for 15 minutes, 117 degrees F.

Next put it in the cooler in the back trunk/hatch back area for 30 minutes or so, 120 degrees F.

The cooler was too tall for me to pull the security visor over the cooler, but I'm thinking that wouldn't make much of a difference.

So, the whole cooler in the car technique seems to be debunked.


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[teleman2525]

your se breaks down very easy just seperate the control box from the shaft and place control box in small cooler should help a lot

 

[wayne_etc]

A cooler doesn't actually *cool*, it's just insullated to maintain the temperature of something inside it that is a different temperature than something outside it.
The only way I see the cooler technique working is if you put some cold ice packs in the cooler along with the director. And then you have an issue with condensation.

w

 

[Doctorcoinz]

Leaving your explorer in high temperatures on a regular basis for sure will cause problems. The temperature in cars can on sunny hot days be like an oven.

I know because i left mine in hot car interior and it fried some thing in the detector.

 

[lusitania]

You may want to consider a hard case like whites sell I keep all my Detectors in them I have two Grand kids 2 and 4 that live with me and keep them in the corner of the bedroom. they are very sturdy.I have a Explorer 2 and it fits great with the stock 10.5 and 6 inch coils.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Don't know but have to remove from the car as heat builds up to high temps in closed areas versus hunting in extreme temps.. I keep mine in the cellar where even on a hot day its always cooler and in winter the furnace prevents it from getting too cold.