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Annoying Racer Anomaly

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berryman

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When I turned my Racer on at the beach this morning it when into immediate overload with "saturation" appearing at the bottom of the screen. I tried turning the machine on and off multiple times; I tried re-seating the batteries; I tried disconnecting and then reconnecting the cable. The pulsating sound would stop when I lifted the coil more than 6 inches off the ground but would resume again when the coil was lowered. It didn't matter where I went on the beach.

This went on for about 10 minutes until I put it into Beach mode. Once I did this and then moved it back into the other modes the machine behaved properly again. This is the second time this has happened to me. I don't remember how I got it to stop the first time.

Thoughts?
 
I was at a salt water beach in the dry sand. As soon as I turned the machine on it immediately went into overload, which prevents you from ground balancing the machine.
 
Never thought of the coil cover. Good call. The overload problem may be caused by a build up of sand between the Copland the coil cover. I'll let everyone know if that solves the problem. My only concern - removing the cover without breaking the coil ears.
 
And/or breaking (or cracking) the coil cover.-----It's sure worth taking off & checking though--I never thought of that.-----Thanks Brian
berryman said:
Never thought of the coil cover. Good call. The overload problem may be caused by a build up of sand between the Copland the coil cover. I'll let everyone know if that solves the problem. My only concern - removing the cover without breaking the coil ears.
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What the hell is as Copland?
 
Yep, I bet spell check got him and threw Copland in there.

Good luck next time out.
 
A Note on Beach Use...

it’s best and makes for an easy life if the “Racer” is used in Beach Mode no matter where you are on a beach be it wet, transition and dry sand.
It won’t ground balance in All Metal over wet or dry sand.
It will ground balance in Two Tone over wet sand after several ‘up,downs’ of the coil but, it won’t do the same over dry nor will it work to any degree of smoothness"
 
berryman,
That makes perfect sense. Thanks for clearing that up. Have you got the coil cover off yet?

Des D,
I use mine in Beach Mode in the wet, but I use Three Tone in the dry. It ground balances fine after just a couple of bobs and runs nice and smooth. I much prefer the Three Tone over the Two at the beach.
 
Mine often goes into overload at start up even with the coil well of the ground. It is annoying. And this is not at the beach, but on grass. I knock the gain down 1 notch to 69, and it stops. Then I can put the gain back up because it starts to work normally again. It started doing this about 2 months after I got it. I have no idea why it does it. But since I know how to get it working normally again by hitting the gain button down a notch, I have just learned to live with it.
 
After much effort, I was able to get the cover off and there was a lot of sand under there. The overloading problem should now be a thing of the past at the beach.
 
You may need to leave the coil cover off completely to resolve the issue. If you go back to the beach and it still does it, shut it down, remove the coil cover and see how it does when you power it back up.

I ran into this trying to detect in cold weather, very odd issue IMHO, but easy remedy.
 
Took the Racer back to the beach this morning without the coil cover on. Unfortunately, as soon as I turned it on it went back into overload again. As with last time, selecting the beach mode stopped the overload pulsing. Once the pulsing stopped in beach mode, I was able to shift back into the other modes without further problem. Strange!
 
Like I said in earlier post, mine does the same thing on grass. But it works perfectly after I get it to stop. I tried taking the coil cover off and it did the same thing. Still does it - but I just drop gain until it stops, and after that you can adjust gain back up to whatever you want.
 
I would request a new coil from Makro. I had this issue, found that it would go away after removing the coil cover. I was unable to move it into any other mode, as it was stuck in overload mode when I encountered the issue.

I emailed Makro, and they said they needed to replace the coil. I didn't see the issue on the new coil, so not sure what's up with that :shrug:
 
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