Gauntlet
Forum Supporter
Now that I've finally located my shipment...
I got one torn apart (bought a few to play with), and started to make a plan to what I wanted to do to the 1st one. Here's what I'm gonna "try":
Got some of the guts cut-out, removed the LED wand light, and removed the wand. I want to make this to mount on the detector shaft, downward from the detectors control box, then have the wand on a cable, independent of the PP box.
I notched the circuit board to clear the nut for the cable gland I'll run the cable through to reconnect the wand to the box. I'm thinking possibly a phone handset cord between the two.
The wand, which I have an idea on adapting to also accept a cable gland as well, and extend its reach by 4-5" (making it about 10" excluding the gland), but will play that by ear during assembly.
I'll also be replacing the switch, with a toggle type "ON", since it would be too inconvenient to have to push a momentary switch on a detector mounted PP.
This one will just use the speaker to signal, unless I can find a cord with enough conductors, I might add the vibrating motor, and possibly even a momentary switch into the wand. I could still maybe add a switch to choose between vibrate and speaker modes for target signal.
Untouched on the left, just for comparison.
Hoping to maybe round-up some parts/material tomorrow, and will update as things progress.
I got one torn apart (bought a few to play with), and started to make a plan to what I wanted to do to the 1st one. Here's what I'm gonna "try":
Got some of the guts cut-out, removed the LED wand light, and removed the wand. I want to make this to mount on the detector shaft, downward from the detectors control box, then have the wand on a cable, independent of the PP box.
I notched the circuit board to clear the nut for the cable gland I'll run the cable through to reconnect the wand to the box. I'm thinking possibly a phone handset cord between the two.
The wand, which I have an idea on adapting to also accept a cable gland as well, and extend its reach by 4-5" (making it about 10" excluding the gland), but will play that by ear during assembly.
I'll also be replacing the switch, with a toggle type "ON", since it would be too inconvenient to have to push a momentary switch on a detector mounted PP.
This one will just use the speaker to signal, unless I can find a cord with enough conductors, I might add the vibrating motor, and possibly even a momentary switch into the wand. I could still maybe add a switch to choose between vibrate and speaker modes for target signal.
Untouched on the left, just for comparison.
Hoping to maybe round-up some parts/material tomorrow, and will update as things progress.