New SE goes bad.........A Holiday and It's BROKEN...

[Bill Z.]

I bought the SE in April. It's been out about a dozen times...

Here it is Labor Day, and early this morning I'm detecting for about 45 minutes in a park detecting on a fully charged battery.

Today, I'm using a 5" coil from Kellyco when suddenly the tones CHANGE. It starts with all low tones as it is swept from side to side sounding as if it were on pinpoint. I'm getting a lower sound, like a screwcap or a new penny, but the computer moving box is in the upper right-hand corner showing me it's a large silver coin. What sound would normally tell me it's trash like an eyelet from a plastic tarp, or a new penny, the recovery is a new quarter...

Over a period of another 30 minutes, I try turning it off and holding the ON button down so factory resets kick in....NO CHANGE in tone. I then go back to the car and change back to the standard 10" factory coil with NO CHANGE in tone.

Tone will change to a somewhat of a higher pitch when another quarter is found and pinpointing gets closer or farther away, but no more high pitch sounds. Plus now the computer box on the screen shifts showing only the full left-hand side of the box not matching the correct high tones. When the screen's computer box starts shifting over to screwcaps or new pennies zone, it's now matching that odd tone, but a dime or quarter is found.

I've reset it twice, changed coils, and even used different quarters in front of the coil, but something is wrong... What Happened? What can I do... It's a holiday and I'm stuck in the house with a NEW but BROKEN $1,200 detector.... HELP...

Bill

 

[Mike Bearden]

Did the screen quickly flash out

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

Sorry to hear about that Bill. Guess the only thing that you can do is send it in to Minelab. Good luck and I hope they can get her fixed for you.

Eddie

 

[Elevatorguy]

n/t

 

[Bill Z.]

Mike,

I followed your steps and it's now back to "normal". For larger silver/clad coins, the actual pitch of the speaker on the SE isn't as high-pitched a squeal as my old XS model. The old XS would be going along, then all of a sudden it would just shut off even though the batteries were 3/4 full. I tried the hold/reset on it and didn't have any more problems, but about 6 months after that bout, it started the exact same thing with the off-normal sounds.

The temps outside this morning didn't get passed 88 degrees, so heat really wasn't a factor.

Do you think I should send it back for a Physical or wait to see if it acts up again? With it's little "Fit", it sure messed up a rather good day... Before it misbehaved, I'd racked up $3.77 in coins and a small silver necklace with a hollow thin silver heart....I was hoping for some gold or more silver today...


Thanks again for the help,
Bill in Texas

 

[Mike Bearden]

n/t

 

[Jim upstate NY]

if you reset it, it will go down to factory presets, you will also be in basic mode so you need to switch to advanced

 

[DFX-Gregg]

n/t