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Electrical interference

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Ted S

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I went out for an hour and a half today. I have permission to hunt an old house a block away. Usually I run my Explorer SE around 27 manual give or take. It was really chattering today and I settled on 19. There are power lines along the road and I blame those for the chatter. Being patient paid off as I found a half dozen coins in a small area. The best was a 1902 Indian head penny and the others were memorial cents a clad quarter and a clad dime. The coolest find was an old brass key with a fob from a long defunct jewelry store in Waverly Iowa. Wish I could post pics!
 
Hunting near road in old field in evening...one billboard light turned on and Explorer went crazy.....used the noise cancel feature and ran smooth..
Might try this in different areas when hunting as it might help..
 
The Indian was about 5". And I did use noise cancel. Going out this afternoon for a couple of hours to and old park that used to be a fairgrounds.:detecting:
 
Ted S said:
The Indian was about 5". And I did use noise cancel. Going out this afternoon for a couple of hours to and old park that used to be a fairgrounds.:detecting:
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Awesome Ted, good luck at the fairgrounds keep us posted!
 
Well...Good news and bad news. I struck out at the old fairgrounds. The ground was pretty dry and I don't like to dig when it is too dry. There were a lot of kids there so school must have got out early. I went to another small town and went to a park I last hunted in 1977. That park has been hit pretty hard. When I got there I noticed they scraped about 4" of topsoil off a patch about 12'x20'. The rest of the grass was quite tall and needs mowing. In that little strip I dug my second Indian head penny. It was a nice 1898. Also a 1920 wheat,1930 wheat and a 1936 wheat. There was a half dozen military 30-06 cases,too. So I did end the day on a positive note!
 
Hello everybody!

Couple of days ago a friend gave me a Minelab Explorer SE that he bought on a flee market..The detector is "booting" normally but it has a lot of erratic sounds,i must admit i have zero experience at Minelab's...

Taking a closer look found the cables on the coil side broken and with duct tape...Searching the web i found the original "spiral cable" that connects the coin to the detector...little pricey..

I took measurements of the coil resistance and one coil windings had 2 different values.One coil 6.3 Ohms and other coil 1.8 Ohms should it be that way?

I took RG171 and soldered 2 separate wires for the two separate coils. Wired and soldered as it was.

When i open the cover to check the connector for continuity i saw a transistor (Q504) on the power supply board near the speaker connector that has been replaced..The one on the detector now id the BC337,is this the right one?
 
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