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Anyone having detector problems due to the heat/humidity?

matthias said:
Just curious if this crazy weather is effecting out detectors. Anybody?
I've not been out in this but I have in times past and in this kind of heat the solar energy can really effect a metal detector. I found that when its like this the best times to hunt is at night, or very early in the morning.

Mark
 
Yes ,,besides about passing out trying to get back to the car from the heat. I,m having some problems with the dry ground ,still finding stuff but just the same sounds. As MarkCZ posted ,I do better in morning and evening ,
 
I've been keeping my hunts short due to the heat. Haven't noticed any heat related problems with my DFX.....just the oprerator.:wacko:
 
The most likely cause for a detector "over-heating" is caused by either direct exposure to sun and heat or confined storage in a heated environment.

Never leave a detector in a car trunk where it can get very hot in direct summer sun. Never leave one in one of those black plastic luggage totes on a vehicle's room, exposed to a lot of direct hot sunshine. Never leave them in a vehicle, such as on a seat, exposed to direct sunlight.

I never use a trunk or car-top carrier. I do, however, let my detectors travel with me almost all the time on the van seats. I have used precaution for several decades now by covering them, mainly the control housings, with a very white blanket. Nothing heavy, but like those white blankets the warm up at the hospitals to cover a nearly naked patient with. Being white they don't absorb the heat of the sun, and they are light weight to allow more free air movement.

Whenever I can I try to park so the areas is shaded. Also, I leave a couple of windows cracked open a little for ventilation. If your vehicle has rear windows that are very tinted, that can also help. I enjoy detecting and try to always be at the ready to get out and hunt. If my main use detectors are always with me, then I am always ready.

There are two times I remove them from a vehicle. In the highest heat of the summer when there will be a few days in a row when I don't want to be out in the heat. Also, during the coldest snap of winter, if we have a number of very cold, sub-freezing days or nights, when ... again ... I don't want to get out and experience the misery. I don't mind some of those days that drop down around the freezing mark but warm up into the 30's or 40's when I still might look for a warm sunny area to hunt. Just the extremes, either direction, for an extended period of time.

Monte
 
Monte said:
The most likely cause for a detector "over-heating" is caused by either direct exposure to sun and heat or confined storage in a heated environment.

Never leave a detector in a car trunk where it can get very hot in direct summer sun. Never leave one in one of those black plastic luggage totes on a vehicle's room, exposed to a lot of direct hot sunshine. Never leave them in a vehicle, such as on a seat, exposed to direct sunlight.

I never use a trunk or car-top carrier. I do, however, let my detectors travel with me almost all the time on the van seats. I have used precaution for several decades now by covering them, mainly the control housings, with a very white blanket. Nothing heavy, but like those white blankets the warm up at the hospitals to cover a nearly naked patient with. Being white they don't absorb the heat of the sun, and they are light weight to allow more free air movement.

Whenever I can I try to park so the areas is shaded. Also, I leave a couple of windows cracked open a little for ventilation. If your vehicle has rear windows that are very tinted, that can also help. I enjoy detecting and try to always be at the ready to get out and hunt. If my main use detectors are always with me, then I am always ready.

There are two times I remove them from a vehicle. In the highest heat of the summer when there will be a few days in a row when I don't want to be out in the heat. Also, during the coldest snap of winter, if we have a number of very cold, sub-freezing days or nights, when ... again ... I don't want to get out and experience the misery. I don't mind some of those days that drop down around the freezing mark but warm up into the 30's or 40's when I still might look for a warm sunny area to hunt. Just the extremes, either direction, for an extended period of time.

Monte

Monte, in the past I have had detectors that on those long HOT days of summer that in mid day you could run it (mainly older whites) it was like MAX EMI interference! Its not that the electronics over heat its just solar radiation. The same detector in the same place in the fall, or early morning or late night and it was perfect!

Even the detectors I have now will on hot summer days start out very smooth in the early morning running high sensitivity and high threshold settings, but by noon or 1:00pm I will have to start turning down the sensitivity to maintain stability.
Solar energy effects anything that is RF, some more so than others.

In high heat I find that I dig way more empty holes in mid day than I do at night or the cool of the early morning.

For all six of my detectors in mid summer high heat they work MUCH better at 1:00am than they do at 1:00pm. They're smoother and run deeper when its cooler and a little damp.

So, in my post I wasn't talking about the electronics over heating, but rather the effects of the high solar energy, solar flares and such.

Mark
 
I've left mine in the car for days at a time in summer heat.Never had a problem.They are not shipped in a climate controlled truck.Also the electronics in your car do not go bad due to heat,so I don't worry to much.That my theory.
 
Well, I can see that the next person to invent a tempreture controlled carry case for
a metal detector is going to make a lot of money...maybe.
Salida
 
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