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1270 TODAY WENT BONKERS!

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Woodchuck

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My 1270 went haywire today using disc at 5.5 sensitivity at 3.It was falsing like crazy I was digging ghost targets.Finally gave up. I thought maybe moisture between coil and cover?. got it home cleaned it up tested everything worked fine in house.Strange because even the 6X probe was ghosting to,outside but worked fine in house.When it was working ok I was getting pulltabs with beavertails still attached .the 1270 has a affection for those things with tails.And I was digging canslaw at 6" plus real pain in the ...:thumbdown:
 
sorry to hear the 1270 go nutty on you and yes your going to dig beaver tails if you want the nickels or rings, just the way it is???
 
Woodchuck said:
My 1270 went haywire today using disc at 5.5 sensitivity at 3.It was falsing like crazy I was digging ghost targets.Finally gave up. I thought maybe moisture between coil and cover?. got it home cleaned it up tested everything worked fine in house.Strange because even the 6X probe was ghosting to,outside but worked fine in house.When it was working ok I was getting pulltabs with beavertails still attached .the 1270 has a affection for those things with tails.And I was digging canslaw at 6" plus real pain in the ...:thumbdown:
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Woodchuck,

Sounds like the same problem I had with mine, sent to FT and they changed the main board. Cost me $135 plus $25 shipping. They said I had 3 items shorted on the board. Good luck with the fix.

Also if you are running disc low enough to get nickels you will get those tabs.

Ron in WV
 
Starting to wonder if anybody has not sent their 1270 back for repairs?
 
When mine went crazy it one of the GB pot went bad, Fisher fixed it never had a problem again.
 
Oh man I don't want to here this ! is there anyway to test it for sure for a problem like that? before sending it to fisher?
 
I would try another location to hunt and if you can get your hands on another coil you could try that. When you said it did the same on your 6x probe, that to me would be the same as changing a coil. But what you described is the very, very same thing mine was doing. I bought mine back in the winter (used) and all I could do was some air testing here at the house. Never even knew until I took it out the fist time several months later that I had problems. I started off at a small park and worked with it for several hours, falsing on everything, then I meet up with my brothers at an old school yard, worked it there, let my brother try it, changed the coil, no luck. I had to get a backup F75 out to finish the day. What ever you do air testing around the house will only make you think, maybe its not broke.

I sure hope you can get it worked out, but from my seat here, it didn't sound good.

Good luck with your testing and let us know how it turns out, we and I for sure feel your pain.

Go down about 17 post below yours and read through mine about 1270 coil air test, see if that sounds like the same problem to a T.

Ron in WV
 
WV62 said:
I would try another location to hunt and if you can get your hands on another coil you could try that. When you said it did the same on your 6x probe, that to me would be the same as changing a coil. But what you described is the very, very same thing mine was doing. I bought mine back in the winter (used) and all I could do was some air testing here at the house. Never even knew until I took it out the fist time several months later that I had problems. I started off at a small park and worked with it for several hours, falsing on everything, then I meet up with my brothers at an old school yard, worked it there, let my brother try it, changed the coil, no luck. I had to get a backup F75 out to finish the day. What ever you do air testing around the house will only make you think, maybe its not broke.

I sure hope you can get it worked out, but from my seat here, it didn't sound good.

Good luck with your testing and let us know how it turns out, we and I for sure feel your pain.

Go down about 17 post below yours and read through mine about 1270 coil air test, see if that sounds like the same problem to a T.

Ron in WV
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You didn't mention the weak or lose control housing mount to the handle! What's the information you have about that?

And while at the old school before you got out the F75 you ran my OLD 1266 for awhile and I don't remember you having the problems that you were having with the 1270? or to say the 1266 ran okay in the same area that the 1270 wouldn't run in.

Also, from the air test we did at my house with the 1270 it did FINE! but the detector was laying on a table and we were sweeping the targets in front of the coil, instead of the real world where we swing the detector over the target, meaning if the detector itself is in motion and with the lose control housing the swinging may move or twist the circiut's on the inside causing the instability and the falsing.

Mark
 
Simple take the probe off switch the coil if you don't have another 1270 coil put another 1200 series coil on and try not air testing actual sweeping, then thump the coil and the cable connector then the housing and the control knobs to see if you can make it do it. mine would false erratically and when I wiggled the GB knob it would do it more. Like I said they replace the pots. I'll look for there repair letter.
 
My question is, does Bounty Hunter honor the lifetime warranty that Fisher made with the owners that bought the metal detector for that reason? Because, that was the selling point for me and I would have paid another company 1000+ dollars for the detector I was told was better, than the Fisher one, that I bought.
I would ask the person in charge of fixing your unit before I paid them any money(assuming that you bought your unit when Fisher was Fisher still).
 
lordgilamesh said:
My question is, does Bounty Hunter honor the lifetime warranty that Fisher made with the owners that bought the metal detector for that reason? Because, that was the selling point for me and I would have paid another company 1000+ dollars for the detector I was told was better, than the Fisher one, that I bought.
I would ask the person in charge of fixing your unit before I paid them any money(assuming that you bought your unit when Fisher was Fisher still).
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No They No NOT! And I'm not sure but I bet with a good lawyer that could be beaten in a court room.

They'll do the five years, but you have to pay the shipping to get it there.

Mark
 
In house I was using targets on the floor and sweeping over em,i tried tapping the coil,wires connecters,knobs etc etc.seemed ok I will take it out again to try it if weather ever lets up rain showers everyday tomorrow 90% rain.This weather is in its second week.of this.I don't want get caught in a shower with it.I'm eeping my fingers crossed
 
Guess you need a rain cover for that 1270?
 
Yeah a rain cover would be nice besides a plastic bag.LOL
 
WV62 said:
I would try another location to hunt and if you can get your hands on another coil you could try that. When you said it did the same on your 6x probe, that to me would be the same as changing a coil. But what you described is the very, very same thing mine was doing. I bought mine back in the winter (used) and all I could do was some air testing here at the house. Never even knew until I took it out the fist time several months later that I had problems. I started off at a small park and worked with it for several hours, falsing on everything, then I meet up with my brothers at an old school yard, worked it there, let my brother try it, changed the coil, no luck. I had to get a backup F75 out to finish the day. What ever you do air testing around the house will only make you think, maybe its not broke.

I sure hope you can get it worked out, but from my seat here, it didn't sound good.

Good luck with your testing and let us know how it turns out, we and I for sure feel your pain.

Go down about 17 post below yours and read through mine about 1270 coil air test, see if that sounds like the same problem to a T.

Ron in WV
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Hay Woodchuck,

I just remembered that my 1270 would disc out a dime or quarter at the max setting disc setting when it was broke. I was new to the 1270 and at the time I really thought that was odd, I never had a detector before that would disc out a clad coin. So maybe while you are waiting on the weather you could run that disc up to max and see if it still reads a quarter. Of course if detects it that is good and if it don't call FT.


Ron in WV
 
Works great never gets wet.
 
Hey Shooter you'll have to send me the specs LOL Looks good American ingenuity at work
 
sorry to hear that woodchuck
 
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