OK... I have a quick question. I picked up an F2 last night. Maiden hunt on my parents property by the lake went well, didn't find anything interesting, but it was fun to watch the numbers! Brought it home and hooked it up, turned it on (with headphone this time), and the thing went bonkers! Chattery and all over the map. Unplugged the headphones and it didn't really make a difference. Had to turn the sens. down about halfway. Walked around the corner of the house and all was well. I went around the back without incident and up the other side of the house and about halfway up, it went nuts again. I have a Garrett and a White's and have never had an issue with them. All connections were tight on the Fisher. I do recall having an issue using an electric fence a few years back though. There are no overhead lines and all the electric and other lines come in the side yard, not the front. Are some detectors just that much more sensitive? Or is it an issue with the F2's?
Find's Treasure Forums
Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!
You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
Click here to register!
Need Support Help?
Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you
Can't hunt in my front yard!
- Thread starter mncricket
- Start date
WhatTheBeep
Member
The only time I have an issue with mine is when I'm right across the road from a cell phone tower, in my house near my wifi modem, or my smart phone is too close to the F2 when it decides to send or receive information. From what I've read the entire "F" series seems to be susceptible to EMI problems to some degree.
Turning the sens down halfway is not going to lose much depth, maybe three quarters of an inch or so.
Turning the sens down halfway is not going to lose much depth, maybe three quarters of an inch or so.
REVIER
Well-known member
The F2 is very sensitive to EMI.
Certain sites or certain areas at some site it will go crazy.
Just turn it down...you lose a little bit of depth but not very much at all, really.
I used to think you lose about a quarter inch for every sense bar you take away, but now I think it is less than that.
Certain sites or certain areas at some site it will go crazy.
Just turn it down...you lose a little bit of depth but not very much at all, really.
I used to think you lose about a quarter inch for every sense bar you take away, but now I think it is less than that.
Thanks for the info. As I live in a fairly new neighborhood (aound ten years old), I would actually be very surprised to find anything interesting here. My house sits about mid way up what apparently used to be a field in the summer and a sledding hill in the winter. While the sledding hill part is nice, I have also been told they moved out a TON of dirt when they started building, so anything lost whilst sledding probably got moved as well....and no one seems to remember where the dirt got moved to......
One of the nastiest EMI generators I ever ran across was a neighbors buried electric dog fence. I was hunting and then bam I was wiped out. I couldn't figure it out . Talking to the neighbor they said they turned on the dog fence when they let the dogs out after work.
Don
HH
Don
HH