EMI lessened

[Jackpine Savage]

in my yard anyway. Over the weekend one side of the power coming into the house was dropping out intermittantlly as the wind blew. It's and overhead feed and I could see some arcing at the pole that feeds the house. Called the power company and after replacing the connections to the drop I can now run the Omega almost full tilt in my yard. Raising the coil in the air I can rotate 360 degrees with only a couple directions giving a bit of interference whereas before it was almost total noise. Over the last few years every detector I have had has been affected to some degree or another in my yard because of those $%^&#^$^ old wires/connections!

Tom

 

[RLOH]

Tom, I just came in from testing my 11 inch coil and read your post. I have an underground feed from the pole to my house. I got the detector mounted with the 11 inch dd coil within seven feet of this underground wire and it went bonkers. I moved a couple of feet away and immediately settled down. I could not ground balance when I was too close to the wire, but move a couple of feet away and it balanced perfectly. I guess the 11 inch coil is just fine and I will have to deal with emi at the couple of parks where I am having trouble. Last week I was hunting almost under a cell phone tower and the detector would be fine one minute and wildly chirping the next. I know it was not the ground, but I was thinking that hunting under the tower would be bad at all times. R.L.

 

[Jackpine Savage]

R.L. there are so many different types of interference out there that it makes it hard to say which detector is best or better than another. Any and all reports of a specific problem are just that, specific to that person with that detector at a certain site and time.

FYI, underground wires have had their problems. I used to live in a small subdivision started in the 80's that was fed by underground wiring. Shortly after moving there all the main underground feeds throughout the sub had to be replaced due to poor spec. underground cabling that started to deteriorate and fail over time. I don't know what type of instrument they used to locate the bad spots but if I recall correctly there was arcing that they could hear as a thumping noise.

HH Tom