You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
ryanchappell said:Imagine you have this brand new detector, but no waterproof headphones because they have to be 1/4 inch mono or whatever the quirky problem is with the CTX headphones, and you did not pay $200 or whatever it costs for the ones from Minelab, because you are not a writer, tester, or dealer, and you had to put your house, car title, and take out a payday loan to come up with the 2 grand, to buy the darn thing, and you want to try it out in the water. You would rather listen to it beep out-loud just this once, or maybe for the forseeable future, just to try to find one of the gold rings like GaryD, but you are afraid that without the phones in the plug hole it will leak, void your warranty, and ruin you financially.
Answer: yes you can. You just put the cover over the hole, and go, but it will be hard to hear over the waves and drive people crazy at a peaceful freshwater lake.
Digger said:If someone wants to take their detector under water, up to their ears, the folks at that "peaceful freshwater lake" aren't going to hear it, waterproof headphones or not. If someone hasn't figured out by now that the waterproof headphone jack is not the same as the headphone module, they haven't been paying attention. If someone willingly bought a metal detector at the risk of being ruined financially, they have bigger problems than the cost of the detector. If someone puts up their house, their car and gets a payday loan to buy a metal detector, they also have bigger problems than the cost of the detector. And if you think posting comments about writers, testers or dealers (here and on other forums) makes for a rational argument, I believe you've under-estimated your audience.
capphd said:If when you submerge the control box you lose the wireless signal, how can you water hunt deeper than 3 feet without the waterproof headphones? I really want to wade up to my ears, but the waterproof phones are back ordered. Am I missing something?
Digger said:Just in case this is not a rhetorical question....... If you want to hear the target response while wading "up to your ears", you'll need the waterproof headphones. If you take the detector under water without the waterproof headphones, you'll need to first remove the headphone module, and attach the little protective cap over the waterproof headphone jack. That little cap is located inside the headphone module. You'll need to remove that little cap from the waterproof headphone jack before you re-attach the headphone module. HH Randy
capphd said:Digger. Does someone else make a waterproof headphone that works with this detector? If Minelab released this detector without the headphones available that enable it to be submerged and hear the signal, they dropped the ball. My first question wasn't totally rhetorical. I knew you could submerge the detector without the phones. I just didn't know what good it would do if you couldn't hear the signal.