Troubles with Delta 4000

[Papalittle]

The last two times I went out to swing I brought my Delta 4000 along with my Eurotek Pro. The first time I went to a high school football/track field and started out with the Delta with iron, foil and alum notched out. After 1 hour of swinging all I recovered was a handful of pennies, a few dimes and a load of foil from gatorade bottles but not 1 quarter. Switched to the ETP and immediately started digging quarters everywhere swung. One thing I did noticed on the Delta was that the PP function was not accurate. Everytime I PP'ed the target was 5 inches to the right of where the Delta indicated.

Second day out..Went to the lake to search camping areas. Started out with the Delta and all I was digging was pull tabs even though I notched everything under a dime out. PPing was still 5" to the right of coil. Swiched to ETP and as before started pulling dimes. 1 wheatie and a handful of quarters. The Delta also was beeping on pull tabs and showing nickle on the display even though I had everything under a dime notched out.

I just bought the Delta a few months ago but for the life of me I can not remember who I bought it from but I think Kellyco. I need some ideas what maybe going on with the Delta. thinking of swapping the coil from the ETP with the Delta one to see what happens.

 

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[Papalittle]

Oh one other thing that is going on with my Delta is that when the detector is in my van riding in the back it is quiet except when I turn off the ignition, for some reason it turns on all by its self!

 

[Papalittle]

wow posted this on 3 other sites and got several responses from each, can not believe nothing on this site. shocked!

 

[SouthFLdigger]

The detector turning on by itself could indicates a stuck button, or defective control unit. Might be a faulty failing component due to heat.

 

[Papalittle]

thought maybe my radar detector or GPS or dash cam was causing it. or a ghost

 

[SouthFLdigger]

thought maybe my radar detector or GPS or dash cam was causing it. or a ghost

While a radar detector emits internal spurious emissions they are not strong enough to induce a charge to be able to turn on an adjacent circuit except for RDDs, not a GPS, camera. Ghost could be the cause, or more likely a failed control unit.

 

[topazguy]

My Delta has been a little beast in the field. I've run the 11 and 5 DD, along with the stock and it's never given me any trouble. I even run a backlight mod and still no problems. My guess is failed control box as well. If you bought it from Kellyco just get an RA and send back to Teknetics.

 

[tek-billiot]

Please tell me how to get the backlight mod..

 

[topazguy]

I will post some pics soon with an explanation. The beauty of it is that it's an external power source and you don't mess with the internal wiring at all

 

[tek-billiot]

Great, thanx. I like to hunt in the evening, and my eyes aren't what they used to be.

 

[ivan salis]

sounds to go back --might have coil issues or control box issue..

 

[topazguy]

Don't want to hijack this thread so posted my backlight mod over in the Detector Modification section. I'll post more details there shortly.