Bottomfeeder
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I went to the beach yesterday for a couple of hours. Visions of gold doubloons, emeralds, old cannons, etc. dancing in my mind.
I tuned up the Excal and started sweeping. The first thing I noticed was that it was going off about every ten to fifteen seconds. HMMM....
I knew I'd just recharged it, so I thought it was going squirrly, but it was working, so...?????
The second thing I ran into was a lot of coin sounding signals. This was the bad part. All over the beach were little pieces of black , very thin rusted something or other. Most less than the size of a nickel. They all sounded good.
I make them out to be the remains of something that crumbled off shore and was swept in athigh tide.
It won't totally stop aperson, but it will slow them down some.
I gave up, took my eleven cents loot, and headed back to the trailer.
Now comes the strange part. I had an idea that the battery hadn't taken the overnite charge I gave it, so I got the charger, my voltmeter, etc. I turned the detector over to look at it, and suddenly realized I had been hunting with my back up non-rechageable double A battery pack. YIKES!!
How long ago did I put that in?? I dimly remember being out with Doug, hunting a lake down south, and putting it in...well, I think that was in November!!!
Took the thing apart and read the non-rechargeable batteries (which I had on the charger all nite) They all read from 1.38V to 1.45V, except one battery sat at .69V.
I think it would have kept working yesterday, except for the one bad AA.
So, I threw a charge in the right battery, and will test it on the beach later today.
I was concerned that my evil Excal was laying down on me, but I think it was doing it's best with what I provided it.
(eleven cents,HMMPH!!)
I tuned up the Excal and started sweeping. The first thing I noticed was that it was going off about every ten to fifteen seconds. HMMM....
I knew I'd just recharged it, so I thought it was going squirrly, but it was working, so...?????
The second thing I ran into was a lot of coin sounding signals. This was the bad part. All over the beach were little pieces of black , very thin rusted something or other. Most less than the size of a nickel. They all sounded good.
I make them out to be the remains of something that crumbled off shore and was swept in athigh tide.
It won't totally stop aperson, but it will slow them down some.
I gave up, took my eleven cents loot, and headed back to the trailer.
Now comes the strange part. I had an idea that the battery hadn't taken the overnite charge I gave it, so I got the charger, my voltmeter, etc. I turned the detector over to look at it, and suddenly realized I had been hunting with my back up non-rechageable double A battery pack. YIKES!!
How long ago did I put that in?? I dimly remember being out with Doug, hunting a lake down south, and putting it in...well, I think that was in November!!!
Took the thing apart and read the non-rechargeable batteries (which I had on the charger all nite) They all read from 1.38V to 1.45V, except one battery sat at .69V.
I think it would have kept working yesterday, except for the one bad AA.
So, I threw a charge in the right battery, and will test it on the beach later today.
I was concerned that my evil Excal was laying down on me, but I think it was doing it's best with what I provided it.
(eleven cents,HMMPH!!)