Nel Tornado coil

[kevinnc]

Well I got a T2+ and a New Tornado coil and the coil would not Ground Balance at any setting or even manually. Was positive coil going towards the ground for 0 to 99. Anyone ever heard of this happening?

 

[88junior]

Have you tried manual Ground Balance on the all metal side?

 

[dfmike]

I'm not sure what you mean by "Was positive coil going towards the ground for 0 to 99". Did you try a ground depth test with it ? I had a faulty Tornado once but I don't recall if it couldn't ground balance or not. I just remember that I had no depth with it. I knew something was wrong since it couldn't find anything past 2-3 inches. I couldn't get more than 4-5 inches in the air as well with any targets.

Did you try your T2+ with stock coil in the exact same area ?

 

[kevinnc]

By Positive, I mean the sound got louder as the coil was going to the ground while trying to ground balance it manually. I tried it in the yard and out on a farm.
It was giving false signals and bad IDs because it couldn't cancel the ground.

 

[chuck ky]

If the detector works properly with your other coils then it has to be a bad coil. I just have the stock coil and I rarely ever ground balance and the i.d. is always right and I never get any false signals.

 

[88junior]

I am wondering what you had your sensitivity set on. I had something similar to what you describe happen with my T2+ with stock coil attached yesterday. I had to back off the sensitivity to 60 in order to get it to ground balance right. After I was able to run my sensitivity up to 90-99 with out any problems.

 

[kevinnc]

I cut it all the way to 0 and it would not balance.

 

[88junior]

Dang I guess it was a bad coil then. Are you getting another one of them? I was looking forward to your report on its performance.

 

[kevinnc]

They didn't have another one in stock. Got a refund. Might still get one later and try it again.