I've had some mini buccaneers and a 10" tornado coil sitting on my shelf for a while now, and finally got around to wiring them to my xcal 800. First, I was happy to find that the xcal had 4 coil wires, black, white, red and yellow. Not that it would have been a problem if it had the blue and green wires, but it was a pleasant surprise to see that they were the same as the tornado coil. So I put bulgins on the xcal, 800 bbs, and 10" tornado. I drove out away from my house (super emi here, I always drive about half a mile away to be safe when I test) and hooked up the battery and powered on. At first I got a little threshold. Scanned my bumper, and got a tone, then it went silent. Scanned my bumper again, got a tone, then it went silent. Threshold and volume were both turned way up. I clicked off, then back on -- I got a strange whine that sort of descended in pitch like a bomb dropping, but in the bbs language "accent". Turned off and back on again, same thing. I need to add that I haven't used it in a while, so the battery has sat for many months w/o being charged (disconnected from the detector of course). I popped it on the charger and will try again tomorrow. Will hook up and test the 8" bbs w/ bulgin as well, because I know those wires are the same, both color and purpose, it's off the xcal control box. In the past, I never ran the machine long enough for the battery to get low, so I don't know how it would act if that is the case. I would assume it would be like the Sovereign, and yelp. Maybe the battery is just past that point and too low for it to even do that.
I could swear I've heard someone talk about the "bomb dropping" sound once before, and if I remember correctly, it wasn't a good thing. I hope I'm wrong.
I could swear I've heard someone talk about the "bomb dropping" sound once before, and if I remember correctly, it wasn't a good thing. I hope I'm wrong.
