Need some tech help please...

[ewtaylor]

Ive been using my At Pro in a freshwater lake for the past year with no problems until this week. After about 20 minutes submerged, the detector goes crazy. Lift it up out of the water and in a few seconds it's back to normal. But then 20 - 30 minutes later, same thing.

I assumed I had a leak around either the coil or headphone connector. Went back to the lake today and hunted the beach for an hour before jumping in the water. Just before I got in the lake the earbuds went dead and the speaker came on.

I'm using the Garrett adapter with waterproof earbuds.

I got home, plugged in the normal Garrett headphones, and everything was peachy. Swapped back to the "setup" and the speaker came back on. I disconnected the earbuds from the Garrett adapter but the speaker stayed on.

My question is, once you plug in the adapter by itself should the speak shut off or does it stay on? I'm assuming the speaker should shut off and I have a bad adapter but I just want to make sure before I throw it away and buy a new one.

 

[GO VA]

The adapter you are referring to is not meant to be submerged in water and you are shorting out the upper plug where you connect the headphones. The only way I know that works when you will be putting the unit below the surface of the water is that you will have to have the Garrett blue phones or the Grey Ghost Amphibian for Garrett AT series to keep everything water tight.

 

[ewtaylor]

The adapter you are referring to is not meant to be submerged in water and you are shorting out the upper plug where you connect the headphones. The only way I know that works when you will be putting the unit below the surface of the water is that you will have to have the Garrett blue phones or the Grey Ghost Amphibian for Garrett AT series to keep everything water tight.

Thanks for the reply, but it didn't really answer my question.

 

[GO VA]

Short answer you have a bad adapter. Long answer I am sorry I didn't make it clear as to your problem. When you short out the connection in the upper non waterproof plugin in the adapter it makes the electronics in the AT think you don't have any headphones connected and the speaker will come on like there is no headset hooked up. Most likely when you went back it had dried out enough to work until the humidity inside built up enough to short it out again. Call Garrett and ask about the adapter before wasting your money on a new one ( I have) and they will tell you it is not meant to be under water for the upper connection of the adapter no matter what headset you are using the female plug will eventually short out. Glad to hear you used it for some time and didn't have a problem and I may get one and seal the connection with marine silicone and give it a try, the only reason I didn't in the beginning was after talking to Garrett.

 

[ewtaylor]

Short answer you have a bad adapter. Long answer I am sorry I didn't make it clear as to your problem. When you short out the connection in the upper non waterproof plugin in the adapter it makes the electronics in the AT think you don't have any headphones connected and the speaker will come on like there is no headset hooked up. Most likely when you went back it had dried out enough to work until the humidity inside built up enough to short it out again. Call Garrett and ask about the adapter before wasting your money on a new one ( I have) and they will tell you it is not meant to be under water for the upper connection of the adapter no matter what headset you are using the female plug will eventually short out. Glad to hear you used it for some time and didn't have a problem and I may get one and seal the connection with marine silicone and give it a try, the only reason I didn't in the beginning was after talking to Garrett.

Thanks. I knew they weren't waterproof, I just thought (more like hoped) I had made the connection watertight. I guess I can get another and use plasti dip this time.

 

[John-Edmonton]

The speaker shuts off when using the adapter. But with the non water proof adapter, in the water, well, I guess it comes back on.

 

[ewtaylor]

The speaker shuts off when using the adapter. But with the non water proof adapter, in the water, well, I guess it comes back on.

I wasn't in the water when this happened. I was detecting on the beach, heading toward the water, when the sound stopped in the earbuds and went straight to speaker.