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Battery overload

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bruce01364

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I was reading the flat battery thread and remembered something that happened to me a while ago. My machine made a noise, I looked at the screen and it said something like battery overload (don
 
Hey bruce01364, I think I would contact a dealer or service center before I run it too long. That does not sound right to me. I've only owned my e-trac since august of this year so I dont know a whole lot about it but, that still sounds like something is up. Better safe than sorry. I've had my e-trac show flat battery and shut down but, that is so the battery does not go completely dead and you lose all your settings. It will shut down first. Good luck and HH.
 
I do not remember a "battery overload" warning but there is an overload when you pass the coil over a massive iron target it will make a ooh-ooh-ooh type sound but should stop as soon as you take the coil away, and I do not believe it shuts the machine off.

This is from page 18 of the owners manual.

There are also many metallic objects inside a house, such as nails in the floor, reinforcing in the walls, televisions and other household appliances, that might overload the electronics of the detector. Overloading is not harmful to the electronics of the detector. E-Trac is designed to withstand coil overload.

Note: Sometimes it is possible that a large object close to the coil will overload the detector
 
I had a similar happening while i was hunting an old church.
but it was over a target,The machine made a noise and showed voltage too high on the screen.
I started it back up and went over the target again and it did the same thing!
No idea what was in the ground there,but i have never had the happening since.

LabradorBob
 
Thanks LabradorBob. That may be the same thing I experienced. Maybe it was a voltage too high message rather then overload message. Anyway, don't think it is anything to worry about. I will still call minelab when I remember to do so.
 
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