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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[TORRERO]

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.

It's not in the coil only on the elliptical coil, all others that I know of for DEUS are in fact in the coil..
Don't ask me why they did this I don't know.. Also I really don't think that cable moves enough to have anything happen to it no matter how long its in that pole...

 

[pepperj]

It's not in the coil only on the elliptical coil, all others that I know of for DEUS are in fact in the coil..
Don't ask me why they did this I don't know.. Also I really don't think that cable moves enough to have anything happen to it no matter how long its in that pole...

Not quite understanding the first paragraph.
I'm wondering because the coil being a HF coil, the battery would mess with the operating systems.
So they had to move it up the stem to be away from the coil.

 

[TORRERO]

Not quite understanding the first paragraph.
I'm wondering because the coil being a HF coil, the battery would mess with the operating systems.
So they had to move it up the stem to be away from the coil.

"Not quite understanding the first paragraph"

All the DEUS coils I've seen, have the battery inside the coil, ONLY the Elliptical coil has it up the shaft and I don't know why ...

That being said...

"I'm wondering because the coil being a HF coil, the battery would mess with the operating systems.
So they had to move it up the stem to be away from the coil"

That's a good point, and I don't know..
Something I found to be strange is the fact that when I did the software upgrade my box showed two old coils that I no longer have, (bought them, had them, added them, sold them, never deleted them from my box) the update was looking for them to update them as well.. BUT it never looked for the Elliptical coil and never tried to update that one.
I don't know why, and I don't know what the update does for the coils... I would have loved to have it update the coil to see if that fixed it, but no luck...

 

[pepperj]

"Not quite understanding the first paragraph"

All the DEUS coils I've seen, have the battery inside the coil, ONLY the Elliptical coil has it up the shaft and I don't know why ...

That being said...

"I'm wondering because the coil being a HF coil, the battery would mess with the operating systems.
So they had to move it up the stem to be away from the coil"

That's a good point, and I don't know..
Something I found to be strange is the fact that when I did the software upgrade my box showed two old coils that I no longer have, (bought them, had them, added them, sold them, never deleted them from my box) the update was looking for them to update them as well.. BUT it never looked for the Elliptical coil and never tried to update that one.
I don't know why, and I don't know what the update does for the coils... I would have loved to have it update the coil to see if that fixed it, but no luck...

If the need to update the coil basically says it has a brain.
I never checked my other coil out. I just charge it 3 times a year. Same as the rest of the Deus 1 stuff.
Closet equipment for a backup.

 

[TORRERO]

UPDATE !!!!!

I unplugged the coil battery and left it unplugged for 30 minutes and replugged and charged it overnight and now it seems we are back in business !!

I'll keep you guys posted

My gold wedding ring is now reading 93 (this is 74 frequency) and the quarter was 97-98 which is normal

 

[TORRERO]

I spoke too soon !! Ha Ha Ha
Went out today and numbers are back being crazy, I'm grateful I have a DEUS II as backup.
And grateful for the help here... but it appears that I will have to return it for maintenance..
I also lost ALL my programs I had before the upgrade to #6 and even though the machine works, it doesn't seem to work anything like what I had before..
Also the VOLUME is still low, I was thinking it sounded better, but in the field, it does NOT !!