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What is the little clear window on the front for/amplifier speaker available?

J

jjbond

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Hi all, I just received my brand new Infinium from Steve at AK Minding (Thanks Steve) and I have a question that a search didn't find anything for.

What is the little clear window on the front used for, it almost looks like it should be a light there or something? Is it there to see if any condensation has gotten inside the unit or something?

Has anyone started selling an aftermarket amplifier/speaker combo for these units like are available for the Minelab GPX-4500 etc? I hunt in Bear and Cougar country and am not keen on having my ears covered by headphones.

Cheers
Jennifer
 
Hey Jennifer,

Im not sure what the window is for..its also on the Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II. My guess its for Garrett to use somehow. Here is is a pic of a external speaker I made for my Infinium. Its alot like the Minelab version.
Got the connector from Garrett and the rest of the parts from Radioshack. It has a inline volume control also. All parts together were around $50-$55. Enjoy your Infinium..I do mine!

Alan
 
Hi Allan, thanks, I had seen your post with those pictures in the past but you didn't put any Radio Shack catalog or part numbers/prices in to that post. Could you share what amp that is, I could not find it in the Radio Shack catalog and what did Garrett charge you for that headphone cable?
 
Well I should have kept the part numbers as I had gotten a few questions about it before...But the only thing I got from Garrett is the connector that hooks to the infinium, which has to be wired up to the other cables.

So parts are:

Garrett connector (which is on other end of coiled cable from the volume cable)
Guitar cable from RS (COILED)
inline volume control from RS
Gigaware speaker for ipod w batteries (has amp bulit in) from RS
Small adapter for getting 1/8 inch volume cable to guitar cable. Its the one that goes between speaker cable and the coiled guitar cable.

Thats it...its takes patients to wire it in the Garrett conector as it is small area to solder. My first try lasted a few weeks but solder broke and have to fix it again to make it stronger.
I use a long rubber band rapped around speaker which has a clip like for holding key chains on a belt, to hook speaker to my belt or cloths while detecting.

Good luck...let me know if this was not clear and you need more explanation in detail.
Alan
 
I believe it is to see if your unit has taken on water. If it did, and you turned the conrtol box with the window on the bottom, you could see the bad news.
 
Thanks John, I suspected that may be the case.....
 
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