Arthur-Canada
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The other day I was out swinging my old Golden Sabre in a farm field full of soybean plant stubble. The ground was good and dry out. I did not notice it when I first got there, but after a while I started to get false signals every time I bumped up against or scraped over the stubble. No matter where I put the sensitivity control it would not stop. I even found that when I lifted the detector waist high off the ground and shook the coil it would false as well.
When I got back home I brought the machine to my basement shop and checked all the solder connections on the plug and fiddled with the wire where it entered the coil...no falsing! I shook the coil in the air too...no falsing. I even removed the coil cover and all silicon just in case. It is almost as if some static or something built up on the coil while swing in the field over the stubble that disappeared when back at home?
Any ideas what causes it and what to do about it?
When I got back home I brought the machine to my basement shop and checked all the solder connections on the plug and fiddled with the wire where it entered the coil...no falsing! I shook the coil in the air too...no falsing. I even removed the coil cover and all silicon just in case. It is almost as if some static or something built up on the coil while swing in the field over the stubble that disappeared when back at home?
Any ideas what causes it and what to do about it?