Just got a mojave recently and noticed it gets pretty chirpy at times. Doesn't matter if the gb switch is on low or high. I thought it might be EMI, but today I noticed if I wiggle the coil cord where it enters the coil it falses. I have the cord strapped near the coil so it's not flopping around, but it still falses quite a bit.
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How quiet does your mojave run?
- Thread starter NCtoad
- Start date
Carlos (CA)
Member
NCtoad said:
Hmm, is the connector absolutely set all the way in?
I only get EMI/chatter if I run max sens, at certain locations. No wiggle chatter.
Electricfrontporch
Member
How high was the sensitivity set when it chatters?
Electricfrontporch said:
I usually hunt with it set halfway on the white. It's noisier at lower disc settings, but still falses with the disc cranked all the way. What makes me think something isn't right is that it falses when I move the coil wire back and forth where it comes out of the coil. I sent it off to Tesoro today so I'll find out soon what's wrong with it.
Electricfrontporch
Member
NCtoad said:
I was asking about the sensitivity setting. If it was set at max it might not be the coil.
I actually just sent mine in for a checkup along with a used outlaw I picked up.
The Mojave started to get noisy when the disc was set past zinc.
Had it cranked last week for my niece to find some coins and it was real noisy until I backed
the disc off into the tab zone. Probably a bad pot. I'll know for sure when I get it back
Hope Rusty sorts yours out. They always do a good job for me so far.
Noah
Electricfrontporch
Member
Aha......rest assured they will take care of it!
Whimpster
Member
I had spoke with Rusty at Tesoro,explained to him my Mojave was falsing a bit when sens was turned up past 5 and into the red zone...he said it's a bit chatty when at the higher sens...said to try to run it with the toggle switch on high and see if it made a difference...it did settle down the chatter quite a bit,but it was still there...turned down the sens to 5 or under and it was quiet.
Also suggested to try another coil on the Mojave..said the brown 8" coil will give another inch in depth he has found.
Soooo I swapped the 7" coil to the 8" coil and the Mojave gave the same chatter as before at the same settings...put the 7"coil on my Silver µMax and no chatter no falsing...
Going to try it on my Bandido ll µMax next to see the results..
So it just maybe the nature of the little black beast....more testing will ensue
Whimp.
Also suggested to try another coil on the Mojave..said the brown 8" coil will give another inch in depth he has found.
Soooo I swapped the 7" coil to the 8" coil and the Mojave gave the same chatter as before at the same settings...put the 7"coil on my Silver µMax and no chatter no falsing...
Going to try it on my Bandido ll µMax next to see the results..
So it just maybe the nature of the little black beast....more testing will ensue
Whimp.
Did you try wiggling the cable where it enters the coil? Mine falsed doing that.Whimpster said:I had spoke with Rusty at Tesoro,explained to him my Mojave was falsing a bit when sens was turned up past 5 and into the red zone...he said it's a bit chatty when at the higher sens...said to try to run it with the toggle switch on high and see if it made a difference...it did settle down the chatter quite a bit,but it was still there...turned down the sens to 5 or under and it was quiet.
Also suggested to try another coil on the Mojave..said the brown 8" coil will give another inch in depth he has found.
Soooo I swapped the 7" coil to the 8" coil and the Mojave gave the same chatter as before at the same settings...put the 7"coil on my Silver µMax and no chatter no falsing...
Going to try it on my Bandido ll µMax next to see the results..
So it just maybe the nature of the little black beast....more testing will ensue
Whimp.
Whimpster
Member
NCtoad said:Did you try wiggling the cable where it enters the coil? Mine falsed doing that.Whimpster said:I had spoke with Rusty at Tesoro,explained to him my Mojave was falsing a bit when sens was turned up past 5 and into the red zone...he said it's a bit chatty when at the higher sens...said to try to run it with the toggle switch on high and see if it made a difference...it did settle down the chatter quite a bit,but it was still there...turned down the sens to 5 or under and it was quiet.
Also suggested to try another coil on the Mojave..said the brown 8" coil will give another inch in depth he has found.
Soooo I swapped the 7" coil to the 8" coil and the Mojave gave the same chatter as before at the same settings...put the 7"coil on my Silver µMax and no chatter no falsing...
Going to try it on my Bandido ll µMax next to see the results..
So it just maybe the nature of the little black beast....more testing will ensue
Whimp.
Yes i had the same falsing when I touched the cable or tapped on the shaft as well....was chatty on the higher sensitivity.
If I run it around 5 it's much quieter..sometimes toggling the switch to high it well quiet it down also.
I thought as you did...maybe I had a bad coil,wasn't the case..I switched coils,put the 7" on my Silver uMax and it worked fine.
I changed and put the 8" coil on the Mojave and got the same results....a chatty Mojave.So It wasn't the coil in my case...just learned the Mojave is just a chatty beast....not like the 6 other Tesoro's I own...their quiet and stable.
I like the Mojave once I got some time on it...great little detector.
Cheers Bob.
