Problems With My E-Trac

[Marchas45]

It's going Bonkers. Went out this morning and my e-track started going crazy lots of chattering. I have it on the stock coins mode and it still does it. Someone said if my batteries where low that this may cause the problem is this true? or is it a bad coil? I even tried it back at the house where I know there's no interference and the same thing happened. Any thoughts guys. Thanks, Charlie

 

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[Iron Patch]

I doubt it's your batteries since you did not receive the low battery warning. (assuming it's the same as an explorer)

The first question is..... Did you try a factory restart by holding the power button in? Explorers can get a little wacky like that and the reset clears the problem. I've had several bad explorer coils and each time it was a slow process going bad. Also check and make sure your connections are tight.

PS... What you describe is also very typical of electrical interference. Make sure you rule it out! Did you hit your noise cancel?

 

[Marchas45]

I doubt it's your batteries since you did not receive the low battery warning. (assuming it's the same as an explorer)

The first question is..... Did you try a factory restart by holding the power button in? Explorers can get a little wacky like that and the reset clears the problem. I've had several bad explorer coils and each time it was a slow process going bad. Also check and make sure your connections are tight.

PS... What you describe is also very typical of electrical interference. Make sure you rule it out! Did you hit your noise cancel?

Thanks Iron Patch yes I tried noise cancel and checked the connections, I will try the reset tomorrow morning, I forgot all about that, Duh!! There where lots of iron where I detected this morning and I mean a lot must have been a scrap yard at one time LOL. Thanks again, Charlie

 

[Iron Patch]

I doubt it's your batteries since you did not receive the low battery warning. (assuming it's the same as an explorer)

The first question is..... Did you try a factory restart by holding the power button in? Explorers can get a little wacky like that and the reset clears the problem. I've had several bad explorer coils and each time it was a slow process going bad. Also check and make sure your connections are tight.

PS... What you describe is also very typical of electrical interference. Make sure you rule it out! Did you hit your noise cancel?

Thanks Iron Patch yes I tried noise cancel and checked the connections, I will try the reset tomorrow morning, I forgot all about that, Duh!! There where lots of iron where I detected this morning and I mean a lot must have been a scrap yard at one time LOL. Thanks again, Charlie

Yep I bet that will do it. The more high tech these units get the more they seem to get these glitches. I have hunted with two people who were using improperly working explorers and had no idea. After I restart them it was like giving back a new unit.

 

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[OhioCoinHunter]

Sounds like a bad coil to me. A guy in our club had the exact same problem. He brought his detector to the last club hunt and put another coil on it. It quieted right down. That was the problem. So you might want to try putting another coil on your detector to see if that corrects the problem.

 

[Marchas45]

Got it fixed, I took the coil off and replaced with another coil and it worked fine, put the original coil back on and it worked fine. It must have been a loose connection that's the only thing I can think off. LOL. Glad I did it that way before doing the factory reset.
Thanks for the help guys, Charlie

 

[Iron Patch]

Got it fixed, I took the coil off and replaced with another coil and it worked fine, put the original coil back on and it worked fine. It must have been a loose connection that's the only thing I can think off. LOL. Glad I did it that way before doing the factory reset.
Thanks for the help guys, Charlie

Were you at the same spot, and had you tried it at a different area yesterday? If not, process of elimination points to it being interference you were dealing with. Like I said all my coils went bad in a gradual way so immediate serious problems would much more likely be interference. Also, a bad coil can be very subtle that many people use them and don't even know! I bought one used and the guy argued black and blue it worked perfect... It worked but I'm pretty sure he just didn't have enough experience to know it wasn't 100%.

 

[p2c]

Also may not be IP's problem, but here is a timely reminder to also clean dirt and stuff that accumulates in and around coil, above coil at connecting nut, etc... Minelab claims build-up can cause interference and falsing.

 

[Iron Patch]

Also may not be IP's problem, but here is a timely reminder to also clean dirt and stuff that accumulates in and around coil, above coil at connecting nut, etc... Minelab claims build-up can cause interference and falsing.

In 10 years I seldom clean my coil and never had an issue anything close to what is described above. In fact I've never had an issue that was enough of an issue to think it was an issue.