Kevin Walenciak

Let me know when you have a chance to try out the headphones.  I am considering either a pair of Aqua-Tek headphones or the same ones you got from the Ukraine...

On 12/30/2022 at 6:46 PM, BigSkyGuy said:

Joe, Thank you for the excellent post! I think most of the time i will be in less than 15 feet. I think I will order Anton's phones and report back on them. Hopefully there will be no issues shipping from Ukraine.

Thanks again!

 

Kent

Kent,

Did you ever get the headphones from Anton for your Excalibur?  I am considering the same thing and I was curious if you went through with it.  If not, did you go with different headphones for your Excalibur at all?

I have a carbon fiber Anderson Over/Under shaft for my Excalibur 2.  I typically hunt in water depths varying from knee deep all the way out to chest deep.  I am noticing some slight falsing as I am transitioning from the shallower to the deeper waters and vice versa, and I can only attribute it to the water that is retained in the shaft sloshing around next to the detector.  When I leave the water and point my coil to the sky, a large amount of water drains out from the back of the over/under shafts.  I remember on one of the shafts I had for my Equinox, there was a drainage hole in the lower shaft.  My current Anderson lower shaft does not have a drainage hole, and I was wondering if this would help prevent the slight falsing I am getting transitioning from different depths?  I guess its easy enough to try and plug if it doesn't work, but I was curious if any other Excalibur users have noticed this?

Same question for me but not so much of a restriction on budget...  I was looking at these two kits:

Minelab Pro-Gold Premium Panning Kit

XP Gold Pan Premium Kit

Steve H. - were you involved with creating the Minelab kit?  

Joe,

The Detector Repair Center offers an Excalibur end cap that allows you to use CTX 3030 headphones.  I am thinking about having this done, which would open up more headphone options for me.  Do you know if direct wiring the headphones vs using an endcap adapter affects sound quality / performance / volume in any way?  I believe the service center offers both options, just not sure if there is any performance difference?

13 hours ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

What really makes the difference with the Excalibur's ...are the head phones. You get a good set of head phones on there and "You know what to listen for In PP" .......that Excalibur can not be beat in it's depth. One reason I do encourage everyone to buy the Nox.... Fresh drops, and micro targets. trashy areas...NOX rules. Leave the old deep targets for the excalibur.

Joe, what headphones would you recommend for an Excalibur 2?  I taped up the vent holes on the stock headphones, which helped out quite a bit.  But, if switching them out makes that big of a difference, I want to get that done asap!

Thanks for the feedback everyone!  After doing more google searching, it might be Limonite.  Still a neat / unexpected find at a Fort Lauderdale beach!  Need to come up with another way to get my darn Equinox 800 now..  

I posted this over in the meteorite forum, but after some research I wonder if the mystery rock I found is Limonite.  I found this at a Fort Lauderdale beach yesterday, pretty far away from the water at a volleyball court.  It was about 10 inches down in the sand, and my PI metal detector locked on to this pretty easily.  I have a Pro Find 35 pinpointer, which makes a different sound for ferrous items, which it does on this rock.  It weighs about 76 grams, seems unusually heavy for its size, and a magnet does stick to it.  Before I send it anywhere for analysis, I was wondering if anyone here might have any thoughts?  Possible Limonite?

I found this strange rock at a South Florida beach today.  This was pretty far away from the water, at a volleyball court.  It was fairly deep in the sand, I would say a good 10 inches.  It feels abnormally heavy, weighs 76 grams and a magnet does stick to it.  Both my PI metal detector and Pro Find 35 pin pointer go nuts near this thing- the Pro Find 35 makes the ferrous metal sound.  Does this look like something I should send out for verification?? With luck, this could help fund my future purchase of an Equinox 800...  ?