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Rainy day project fix my Minelab XS-2 target meter

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deepdiger60

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One day last Spring my XS-2 meter stopped working and i put it aside until today it came apart very easy as soon as i opened it i saw the broken wire the orange one it was just hanging together by the coating the copper strains were broke ?? hhmm i cant imagine how that happened i never opened the box until this morning , very easy fix a little soldier and a piece of shrink tube and it works PERFECT !! i had it hooked up with my GT box with the other meter in the house with a lot of interference , point is it works it has bugged me for 5 months and it,s good to have just in case . :detecting: i took a few repair pictures Jim
 
Nice. Always like to see people fix stuff themself and mod things. Are you running the Insight meter and the Minelab meter on the same machine? I didn't think you could run an external meter once you had the internal one installed because I thought I read the output pins for the ID from the machine back down the cable were disconnected when it was installed?
 
Critterhunter said:
Nice. Always like to see people fix stuff themself and mod things. Are you running the Insight meter and the Minelab meter on the same machine? I didn't think you could run an external meter once you had the internal one installed because I thought I read the output pins for the ID from the machine back down the cable were disconnected when it was installed?
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Yes both meters are running off the same control box at the same time , just to try it out i took the set up outside on the property and tossed down a silver dime i got a 180 on both meters lol the old meter xs-2 shows a -462 for iron where the in box meter shows a 1 for iron but both show the right numbers for dimes and pennys , i didnt think both would work either but they do .Sometimes fixing parts my self is a good learning process . Jim
 
Hey, if it's not too much of a bother...I'm curious...In noise band 2 see what both meters read on the same nickle. I'm wondering if the scale is a little off from meter to meter in that range, like nickels can change ID a bit if in band 1, which is why all the charts use band 2 as the old Sovereigns were I guess stuck in band 2. Just curious if the meters both will ID a mid conductive target with the same ID #. Never read of anybody checking that between meters.
 
Critter i ran a Buffalo Nickle in front of the coil a 10" Tornado with both meter,s running 2 times and got a good Nickle reading each time on both meter,s the Nickle was 1 inch further away in pic 1 then 2 , i would dig both reading,s if hunting for Nickles , iam sure i coulod of tuned the XS-2 meter to the same number,s as the 180 in box meter , i took a few photo,s you can see the numbers if that helps Jim
 
Thanks for doing that. Were both meters set to go 180 on a clad dime or quarter? If so then it appears the mid range stuff can be a hair off due to the meter's scaling. Appears they are both off about 2.5 to 2.7 digits from each other if both meters are at 180 on a clad dime or quarter then? Also, did you let it warm up for a few minutes first?

I've found that often meters need a little "warming up". My digisearch Minelab meter would read a tad off until I let the machine warm up for say 4 or 5 minutes. That's why I never mess with the tuning pot until it's been on say 5 to 8 minutes, because chances are it's still calibrated to go 180 on a coin and just needs a bit of warming up. The more you adjust those pots the harder they get to adjust over time as pots have a limited life span of adjustments and will start developing dead spots in them over time. My digisearch meter is very hard to tune to 180 perfect due to that. If it gets all but impossible then a fix is to open the meter and tune the internal coarse pot a little off, and that way the external one will now ride in a new spot when set to go 180.

I never used a dime or quarter after a time to adjust the Digisearch meter, because I found if it was set right when the machine resets (happens more if sensitivity is high, or can be caused by thumping the coil on the ground) the meter will read negative 506 (-506) if it's set right to go 180 on a dime or quarter. Much easier to do that then throwing a coin on the ground and then having to pick it up after words. Might be a slightly different # for other Digisearch meters when it resets if it's tuned right, due to variations in the internals of them from one to another, so if you guys find your meter often reads the same negative # when the machine resets if it is tuned to 180 then there you go. No more mucking with coins on the ground. Usually so long if you haven't bumped the pot it won't need adjusted on the next hunt so long as you let the machine warm up a few minutes to see.
 
Critter no i did not let them warm up i know both meters are just a tad off ill adjust the pod to 180 with a clad quarter later but both are close enough to see what the target might be . Silver dimes come up as 181 on both meters Jim
 
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