A little note on falsing issue of Sun Ray probe...

[digitrich]

Since I got my X-1 probe, every now and then I would get falsing from it where it would loose sensitivity or start giving weak false signals in the air, that kind of thing. When I went to the beach, I realized what was causing it, where the wire goes in the top of it, with the plastic nut on it, I was getting sand in the threads the plastic nut screws onto. Once I brushed the sand out of the gap between the nut and threads, bamm, problem solved, worked perfectly afterword. Just use a stiff paint brush. Same thing too if your digging in wet mud or dirt, you will eventually get mud stuck in the gap between the nut and the probe itself, that mud or sand eventually must become magnetised and cause falsing just like between your coil and its cover. Simply brush it out with a stiff brush. On the beach I had to unscrew the nut (ON THE WIRE, NOT the one going into the probe) to get the sand out of the threads. Just remember not to over tighten, just finger tight.

 

[Captain Kirk]

How does sand get in there?

Glenn

 

[digitrich]

The wire that goes into the probe has a threaded peice sticking out of the probe itself and on the thread is a nut that is attatched to the wire collar which about two inches long to help support the wire so it doesn't bend 90 degrees to the probe and short or break. The place the sand was getting into was under that support collar and between the support collar nut and the nut on the probe. the actually nut that's touching the probe itself never gets turned or you can damage your probe.

 

[Captain Kirk]

Thanks for the input.

Glenn