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Remote Switch installed on my Sovereign.

Ron from Michigan

Ron from Michigan

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The last couple of times out with the Original I got a lot of nice signals that ended up being hot rocks.One way to check these bad targets is by using all metal or pinpoint.My goal hook up a remote pin pointer that I can use without taking my hand off the grip.This setup worked much better than I anticipated.A pleasure to use even though I used the 800 T coil.I will always keep a remote switch on my Sovereign after using this set up.Later Ron
 
I like the way you brought the wire out the back of the box. But that detector is starting to look like some evil scientist put it together.
 
Goodmore,That Sovereign purrs like a kitten and has the bite of a mountain lion.Now if I find where I put that flux capacitor?
 
I did the same thing on my GT except I used a push button at the end of the handle. Best thing I ever did. I don't understand why they don't come that way.
 
JHM,the two way toggle switch can be flipped with the trigger finger while you still maintain your grip.I try ed to get it as close to the ergonomics as a Fisher 1266X or a Whites pinpoint switch.I think its a very useful mod that makes life much easier with any Sovereign.This mod makes a great detector even better.
 
Sure does make the machine much more enjoyable to use. On my GT I've got the switch mounted inside the grip, which is a bike end bar. It hangs down just like a Whites. Although I can PP using discriminate PP is a bit more precise, and it's handy for checking a suspicous coin signal to see if it moves in PP from where it is in discriminate. Most of the time if it moves a good bit it's an iron spike, but that's not to say that it is in fact a coin and that PP is just picking up a nearby large trash signal and missing the coin. Most of the time if the coin signal sounds just too good even only one direction or gives me a decent hit from two directions then even if PP makes the target move I'll dig it just to be safe.

Got a stereo jack mounted on mine on the right side in the back as well. Stereo cord routes through the shaft and up inside the grip so no wires are exposed, yet I can quickly unplug it from the jack on the back of the GT so I can swap the control box over to my water rig and such. I also think Minelab should at least provide a remote PP jack on the back of the GT. They don't even have to supply the external switch. Just make it available to buy as an option for say $10 or so. Make it $25 if they supply a custom hand grip that has the switch mounted inside it. Quick way for them to make this machine much more attractive to potential buyers and also to make them some extra money.

Have to get around to posting that quick/simplified schematic/instructions for the remote switch on the GT. For the most part it's all been posted in the mods forum but I'd like to clean it up and make it even more simple for people with no schematic reading skills to do. I used a two way switch. Pulled back it will stay there and go into All Metal mode, which means PP if you have the PP/track/fixed switch set for that, or either All Metal mode if you want it to go into that. Flipped forward it turns control back over to the onboard switch which will either be All Metal, Disc Iron Mask On, or Disc Iron Mask Off, depending on where you have that switch on the GT set to. Remove the stereo plug and all is stock as well, so the only "mod" to the GT is the external jack. I'd say it's made hunting with the machine as important to me now as using the Garrett Pro Pointer. Only time I'm not going into PP (even though the stock switch is then handy when chest mounted) is in the water. Using discriminate to PP seems to be accurate enough even for the small scoop I'm using.
 
CritterHunter,I agree a remote pinpoint jack installed at the factory would attract buyers and would be a minimum expense for the manufacturer and consumer.I initially installed the remote for identification of hot rocks, but was surprised how much it helped for pinpointing. The Sovereign user's who use 10 inch plus coils would benefit even more.
 
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