AT Pro False Signals

[MDMike]

Alright I have had my Garret At Pro for about 8 months and i use it on the beaches of South Florida and Treasure Coast. Some days i can go all day with out a false signal on the dry sand but in the water is starts to get the false signals. Other days all I have to do is hit the sand wet or dry and i get a false signal, its irritable at the least. I ground balance in the wet or dry and sensitivity is backed down 2 -3 notches. When this first started to happen i took it back to the dealer and he took it out and could not recreate the problem. At first i had a coil cover on it and have since removed it because i was told that sand would be caught between the coil and cover and give false signals. All the connections seem to be tight and fully seated. Any help on this?

 

[Grubstake]

Try, taping you coil cable straight up past the knuckle before you wrap it, around the shaft, sometimes that will help, might be picking up the cable if it wiggles a little. Grubstake

 

[Night Crawler]

I had 2 falsing issues with mine.

1 - Coil connector not seated properly (fixed that).
2 - Coil wire was wrapped to tight on the shaft. I did as Grubstake mentioned above, and no problems since. I used velcro to hold my cable in place because I put my detector in a case when I'm done using it and it requires me to shorten the shaft to fit in the case properly.

 

[JMT Detectors]

It may need a hard reset. If I remember correctly you just push the on button till it beeps twice and forces a hard reset. My AT Pro was doing the same thing until I did this. You can call Garrett and they will talk you throught the steps. My detector quit falsing and acting squirrelly after the reboot on the detector. Best of luck...John

 

[elvis earnhardt]

Are you using Pro or Std. mode? In standard mode you will get a false high tone on your backswing when you are over iron. You get a low tone on the front swing and a high tone on the back swing. Switching to pro mode stops it.

 

[MDMike]

Thanks for the suggestions.
I am using pro mode
As for taping the coil wire are you suggestion not to wrap it until the first knuckle then start the wrap?
Also the false signals that i get are when the coil just ever so slightly touches the sand of a piece of seaweed.
I have done several hard resets.

 

[Grubstake]

Yep, run it straight up, to the first knuckle then wrap it. Grubstake

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

n/t

 

[langsy]

i am on the west coast (Bradenton Sarasota area) i get alot of falsing thats because the beaches have alot of metal peices in them . they get the metal peices from dredging the ocean floor picking up metal chips from ships and using the sand to rebuild the beach , these peices are for the most part the size of bbs , it causes the machine to sound off anywhere on the screen from 0-99