DEUS I went squirrely on me ..

[Ism]

I was reading your replies and the battery was not in the coil.
Say what! 🤣
I had to go look at mine.

Now that I have basically cleaned up my memory bank.

I would see if the battery in the stem, or the cable running up the stem is the issue.
Not sure if flexing the coil thousands of times would wear that cable.
I've never had to mess with mine, nor want to even.

That is possible about flexing the cable. It might intermittently cut out battery power long enough to cause a glitch.
I don't have any of the HF coils for the D1 so I have no clue about the external battery.

One last thing for Torrero.
My D1 started acting squirrely out of the blue a couple months after I bought it (over 10 yrs ago so my memory is fuzzy on the particulars). If I would hold the coil in the air and shake it, it would make all kinds of racket. If I would sweep it over wet grass, it would do the same thing. I seem to remember the TID reading being off also, but like I said....fuzzy memory.
It was under warranty, so I sent the coil in to XP America, and they exchanged it as defective. But the replacement coil did the same thing. I sent XP main a video of the issue and after investigation, they contacted me and said to adjust the ground notch wider. I can't remember what the settings they recommended but it was like 80-90. (full range is 60-90). I would have to fire it up to see the actual setting, but it changes depending on the soil reading so yours might be different. However, that solved the problem. The weird part of the story is I never even knew about the ground notch before XP contacted me, so it wasn't me that zeroed it.
I never had a problem since.

 

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