Thought I'd done it this time....

[slingshot]

I had installed a "tab check" similar to the one in the Troy detector, so smarty pants me wanted to really sport my stuff and reset the g/b via power ground balancing as per Monte and Tabdog. Well, I reset the buggar and all of a sudden I got nothin' coming out of the speaker! After looking, I'd broken a wire going to the on/off pot and went back home to solder it. When I turned it on-NOTHING. I could feel a tightening you know where. Finally noticed that I had accidentally put in a battery off the shelf that I had thrown away-but not put in the trash yet. When it powered up, I told my wife that I wouldn't open that thing up again.

 

[Beale]

Well now that it is done, does it work? I do understand the feeling well, Beale.

 

[slingshot]

It's working fine now. You can set it too positive (Silver umax) and you get some false signals so I had to set her till she just went silent when I lowered to the ground. It was probably set pretty close to right for my area already.

 

[BarberBill]

I replaced the pinpoint button on a Siliver Sabre umax with a toggle switch so that I could run in all metal without holding down the button. No sound in headphones - broke a connection to the headphone socket. Fixed that, detector worked fine for a bit, then went beserk. Thought I'd killed it, checked the battery which had gone TU. Put in another battery - no improvement. Luckily when I tested the 2nd battery turned out it was a goner also. The third battery revived the detector and it's worked beautifully ever since. Always make sure your "Good" replacement battery is actually alive and well.
HH
BB

 

[John LA]

I'm handy with small tools and soldering. I would like to try it on the Golden.

 

[Mike Hillis]

Hi John,

The Golden already has a tab check.

Set your notch width at 11:30. Whenever you get what you think might be a tab, flick the notch switch over to Narrow. If the target goes silent or breaks up it was a tab range target.

You can do the same thing for zincs by just flicking the notch switch over to Wide.

That notch switch can do a lot of things for you. Check it out.

HH

Mike

 

[slingshot]

Oh Mike! I love your Golden posts. Dang! I gotta have that machine even more now. I'm gonna have to search back for your post on your Golden that was so fantastic. You and Dave have me going-even though I already have a Royal Sabre with a lot of the Golden features, I feel that I'm missing having the special arrangement on the Golden. Well thought out machine.

 

[tabdog]

Woow,,, That was a close one.

I worried when I put tha switch on my SS uMax.

But it works great. Seems matural now.

Best Wishes for tha New Year,

Tabdog