5" Sun Ray Stealth (Running Hot?)

[Crispytoo]

I have only used my 5" Stealth twice now but it sure seems to run hot. It chatters like a mad monkey. I have to lower my sensitivity to compensate. I also had to shut off the "fast" response. Any ideas? Has anyone else noticed this with theirs? Thanks.


Crispytoo

 

[RONC(OR)]

I have a new one that runs hot was told to nosie cancel will try that if not will send it in to get fixed HH Ronc

 

[RONC(OR)]

n/t

 

[Crispytoo]

I did noise cancel, a couple times. Perhaps I should have tried all ten channels? That would seem to be a hassle.

 

[cspene]

n/t

 

[Crispytoo]

I was running the sensitivity at 21 with auto off, but then knocked it down to 12. It was still quite chatty so I put the auto on and was able to raise the sensitivity back up again. What I ended up doing was shutting auto off when I got to less chatty areas. I can tell this in auto because you can hear less nulling of the threshold in less hot areas. But if it kicked up again then I switched back to auto. I have never had to use the auto with my 8" or 10.5" coils so that's why I'm surmising that the 5" is a hot coil.

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

First in Auto or Manual. In auto the explorer will adjust the sensitivity quite a bit, as much as 12 or 16 steps, so running auto 25 might be the same as manual 10. Generally you can kick the sensitivity up much higher in auto and still have a stable detector. But in fact the detector is detuning and you aren't going to do any better than a lower manual setting. Where it is at depends on electrical noise and ground/trash conditions.

Also small coils tend to pick up less noise than large ones so you can usually turn the sensitivity up higher with a small coil than a larger one in any given area.

If you put the explorer in manual and turn the sensitivity down to the single digits and you are still getting chatter... try keeping the same settings and try a bigger coil. If the problem goes away it is a wiring problem in the coil.

I had the same problem with my stock coil. Just would not quiet down no matter what I did. Ended up resoldering the coil connector and now it is fine.

Chris