SE Pro Modded

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Version 2.0 with more carbon fiber, MORE!! Here she is ready for her maiden voyage tomorrow at the beach, 56.5 ounces with 8 AA batteries ready for action. The fancy Minelab arm cup pad adds another 2.6 oz but its comfy.

That's right I drilled a bunch of 1/2 holes in Minelabs overkill lower rod which took out 1/2 ounce of dead weight.

Redesigned the lower rod clamp to shave more weight.

She looks FIERCE I like it!

The handle under the rubber grip is also now carbon fiber.

I also molded a carbon fiber arm cup to shave more weight.

 

[IDXMonster]

That's what they COULD have been right out of the box! When I first got my EX2 and met the guy who had it,when I saw it in person I thought to myself.."Well that's kinda goofy looking!" Good thing I got over it,I'd never think of letting it go anywhere now that I know what I know. But if it looked like THAT...I would've given the guy extra! A lot extra! That is an absolutely professional series of mods on that thing,too bad it's a one-off. That is what is known as a "LOOKER"!
Well done sir!

 

[chipper97]

That is a Sweeeeet looking outfit! You, sir are a master craftsman and very clever. My humble opinion.

 

[tiftaaft]

Here I am trying to figure out a broken cam lock and you are redesigning an entire rig! Haha. That is a hot setup Charles!! Awesome!!!

 

[IntoTheWild1995]

Beautiful.... it looks so different from original one i love it.

 

[BigTony]

Charles, that looks terrifiic, everyone will want one. You beat the new minelab release coming this September, ha ha ha.

Best of luck with it.

Tony

 

[david.di]

Hi Charles,
The mod/conversion looks great. Thanks for showing.
While your're at it , unless you've already done so, you can remove the speaker.
Not sure how much weight is shed by doing so, but you seem on a roll to reduce the weight.
I took out the speaker for reasons other than weight, blocked off the speaker vents, sealed off the shell join with a bead of urethane ( limit the ingress of water if ever it got dunked).
I use my Explorer 11 with a dedicated earphone/headphone socket.(it's a chest mounted unit)
Works very well.
I don't ever miss the internal speaker at all.

Regards

David Di

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Hi Charles,
The mod/conversion looks great. Thanks for showing.
While your're at it , unless you've already done so, you can remove the speaker.
Not sure how much weight is shed by doing so, but you seem on a roll to reduce the weight.
I took out the speaker for reasons other than weight, blocked off the speaker vents, sealed off the shell join with a bead of urethane ( limit the ingress of water if ever it got dunked).
I use my Explorer 11 with a dedicated earphone/headphone socket.(it's a chest mounted unit)
Works very well.
I don't ever miss the internal speaker at all.

Regards

David Di

I always remove the speaker, sadly as you know this saves very little weight its a fraction of an ounce. I remove it like you so I can seal up the speaker vents to keep the sand and water out.

 

[Dan(NM)]

Hey Charles, where ya buying the carbon fiber rods?

 

[sgoss66]

Amazing. Beautiful work.

Steve

 

[synthnut]

SHOW OFF !!!!!!....................SERIOUSLY......TOTALLY SMOKIN !!!!!!......

 

[Tony N (Michigan)]

n/t

 

[Frank in NH]

Charles what are you going to do too your Deus when you get it?

 

[UtahRich]

Charles what are you going to do too your Deus when you get it?

I'm thinking Charles is going to go wireless µ-ear buds with a flexible solar panel on the Deus logo ball cap.


How did the maiden voyage go?


Rich -

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Hey Charles, where ya buying the carbon fiber rods?

Rock West Composites https://www.rockwestcomposites.com/

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

n/t

One is for the main coil, the other is for the X1 probe. There is a small toggle switch also bottom/right side of the forward half of the control box to switch between the two. That whole bundle of birds nest X1/switch box on the lower shaft stuff was ripped out.

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Charles what are you going to do too your Deus when you get it?

I'm thinking Charles is going to go wireless µ-ear buds with a flexible solar panel on the Deus logo ball cap.


How did the maiden voyage go?


Rich -

Connect it to my oscilloscope and program it for small gold .

Guys its possible the mighty Explorer has finally been dethroned. DEUS wow, especially version 4 that came out recently. Its deeper, its even better at getting a hit on good targets in iron. Its 1.9 lbs. Its wireless, wireless headphones, wireless coil, wireless display module. Did I mention its only 1.9 lbs? I'm just getting started.

Another recent DEUS development, high frequency coils, HIGH I said like gold prospecting territory high frequency. You can't do that with an Explorer. Each coil gives you a choice of 3 different high frequencies, basically a normal frequency like you would see on a coin/relic detector plus a mid high frequency, and a upper high frequency. Plus 7 offsets of those 3 primary frequencies. So rather than buying a 2nd detector in the gold prospecting frequency range, toss a HF coil on the DEUS and presto. But if that's not working during your hunt or you want to switch back to a normal frequency coil for more depth on coin size targets just press a button. No running back to your vehicle to swap machines.

Question: What 3 high value targets are almost never dug on a beach even though gobs of them have been piling up on beaches for decades? What high value targets are never dug in the dirt inland? The answer is why I ordered a DEUS.

 

[IDXMonster]

Charles,have you run the CTX?

 

[UtahRich]

Just a guess here as I'm not been a beach or water hunter.

Gold necklaces (fine chains), bracelets and diamond earrings?

How'd I do?


Rich (Utah)

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Charles,have you run the CTX?

Yes, returned to Explorer SE Pro. Also eTrac then returned to SE Pro.