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Has anyone else ever experienced this?

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born2hunt

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While digging a target I rest my detector on the ground. It rests on the heel of the coil and the bottom of the arm rest. Sometimes when I resume the search all of the backround chatter seems very muffled and whispery, almost echoeing. If I run over a solid target it will pop right through all of that mushiness but it's very hard to detect when it gets this way.

Hitting the noise cancel does nothing to make it better. The only way I can get it back to normal is to turn it off and power it back up. It's almost like it's detuning to the ground or something along those lines, but I'm just guessing.

Any ideas or advice is greatly appreciated,
Steve
 
Have you checked your headphone cable or your machine's headphone jack?

Sometimes I get a muffled sound, and I usually tap/shake my headphone cable near the jack, and I hear the signal pop in and get louder. It doesn't happen that often for me(at least not yet), but when it does, I know the first thing to check.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
 
I have experienced the same things that you have described and also do the same things that Captn SE
does, It seems to help the problem. If it gets worse, I will change the cord that plugs into the SE and the
head phones. Gold Nuggets :wiggle:
 
Yes it happens to me as well, and often while I am hunting without headphones! I have no idea, its as if the machine got hot and has to cool off. Same thing happens with chatter.
 
Nope.
 
Thanks Cap'n, I had it happen again this morning and I tried fidgeting with the cable, even unplugged the headphones and plugged them back in but in the end I had to reboot.

Bell, sorry to hear you're having the same trouble but it's comforting to know I'm not alone. I'm going to try eliminating as many variables as I can and if I find a solution I will let you know.
 
Had a similar intermittent problem with my backup XS. After fiddling with it on and off for a couple of weeks, I finally took apart the handle and tightened the contacts on the female side of the headphone jack. You may have to eventually replace the jack itself. Seems to happen after plugging the headphones in and out many times.
 
Its likely since the coil isnt pointing into the soil it takes a moment to rebalance its self. Ive had it happen.... but not very often since i reduced my sensitivity from 26 to 24. I noticed when i set it down like you mentioned i could hear the EMI start to increase because of the high sensitivity as it tried to balance. It was worse around a lot of power lines.

Dew
 
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