Another playground hunt

[Hape]

My daughter and I were lucky this morning, as the weather changed form heavy rain back to sun & clouds. So we decided to do a little playground detecting, again.
We only had an hour for this, as my daughters dwarf rabbit got sick and I had to visit the veterinarian with him - don't ask what they charge you on a Sunday morning - enough to buy 5 dwarf rabbits, but as he is a member of our family money doesn't really count.

Back to detecting. We do not really had the patience for detecting, but anyway I was able to test my self made sand scoop (it works and as sand scoops are not really available in Germany, it's still better than to dig with a normal trowel).
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I also thought about testing the blue tooth head set I bought from ebay, but as I like to keep an eye (and a ear) on my daughter I decided to test the head phones better next time, detecting without her.
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My wife sewed a little bag for the blue tooth transmitter, so it can be attached to the back of the X-Terra TID rain cover.

All we found during our 1 hour detecting were a lot of bottle caps, a button, the back of a button and 1 European cent. Not much, but better than nothing.
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I also noticed, that the X-Terra twice had something like a little malfunction: During pinpointing he got "hooked" on the target; I mean you pinpoint, you get a TID and a sound and then it just keeps that TID and sound, even if you lift the coil up into the air. I hope nothing is wrong with the machine, as I bought it used - maybe only the batteries...

Hope the rabbit gets healthy during the week, so we could do better again, next time.

Have a nice day, and greetings from Germany. Peter

 

[Beale]

Good hunt with the daughter!

Mt X-70 has done that once or twice. Try just hitting the pattern key, or any other key? If all else fails try turning it off. Heck I work on electric equipment and sometimes I don't understand it, Beale.

 

[BarnacleBill]

If you have an X30 or X50, when switching to Pinpoint mode it will retain the last ID that was displayed during normal hunting mode. If it is an X70 in Pinpoint mode, the coil must be moving left to right to cause the ID function to work properly.

HH
BarnacleBill

 

[Hape]

Hi Beale,

I switched it back to normal detecting and then back to pinpointing - and this worked. Good to hear that somebody else had the same little problem once or twice and nothing really bad happened. I was a little bit afraid, that this is the beginning of some bigger problem. But anyway, I will keep an eye on it.

@BarnacleBill: It's not that I have a general problem with the pinpointing. It was more like a malfunction. I do not know how I could better describe it as above mentioned. It's like you switch to pinpointing, you move the coil over the target, you get a TID and a sound, you keep on swinging the coil to locate the target exactly and the TID and the sound stays like it is - even if you raise the coil up to the sky. Happened twice yesterday - I hope it was just a temporary problem.

Thx Peter