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CTX chatty until display is under water

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nagov

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I hunt in the Gulf, so I don't experience surf like the bigger bodies of water and I'm just learning this machine. Here is what I am experiencing..... I get to the water turn on the machine, ensure it is in beach mode and saltwater checked/enabled... enter the water and the machine is chatty with falses.... allow it to stabilize temperature wise which takes a few minutes... Now with calm rollers coming in I experience falsing as I go out further, and the machine stabilizes it starts to steady out and I can use it with occasional falsing. IF a wave covers the display it falses, when the wave passes and the display is now uncovered, it falses. IF I go deeper and keep the display under water, NO PROBLEM, the machine runs fine. I've worked out in 7' of water with the machine (snorkelling) and it works great.... then as I go shallow again and the display gets exposed, she starts the falsing again.... Out in the water I run Auto +3 as I get shallow and it starts falsing, I drop it down to Auto to minimize the falses but it is still chatty.... any suggestions or tips? Something I may be doing wrong? Other than this problem (which could be operator error) I'm loving the machine. I've had it underwater well over 30 hours now, no leakage experienced but have seen sand at the seal outside edge (as expected) not on the sealing surface (which would cause leakage). Still lots to learn on this machine but I have lots of time....

Cliff
 
I wish I could help you on this subject but I would also love to know the answer to this question as well. I notice the same on my ctx as well.
 
I would send an email to minelab and see what they say. My CTX was acting up when I would come out of the water. I would have to turn the sens down to 15 or so to get it to quiet down. In the water, I could get it to work at a max of 20 or so. If the coil barely hit the sand it would false. Minelab suggested I send it in. I got it back today. The whole process took less than two weeks. They replaced my coil and the bulkhead. I took it for a spin and it worked flawlessly with the sens maxed out at 30 on the wet sand. In the water it was working at 25. It is so much quieter overall. It is like a completely new machine. I would email Minelab and see what they suggest.
 
stitchlips said:
I would send an email to minelab and see what they say. My CTX was acting up when I would come out of the water. I would have to turn the sens down to 15 or so to get it to quiet down. In the water, I could get it to work at a max of 20 or so. If the coil barely hit the sand it would false. Minelab suggested I send it in. I got it back today. The whole process took less than two weeks. They replaced my coil and the bulkhead. I took it for a spin and it worked flawlessly with the sens maxed out at 30 on the wet sand. In the water it was working at 25. It is so much quieter overall. It is like a completely new machine. I would email Minelab and see what they suggest.
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Oh boy, that does sound like my machine.... when I come out of the water and go up on the wet it is extremely hard to use, and is quite sensitive to bumping the sand and falses on most every swing. I'm going to go out again with it and see where I can go with the sensitivity in manual first but think I may end up emailing Minelab for suggestions.. Thanks

Cliff
 
Well with further testing, no matter what I do, this machine won't work quietly in saltwater until the display gets underwater. Even in manual sensitivity and running at 10 (machine suggests 14) it still falses on each wave. Auto -3 doesn't work either....
Now the good news, I emailed Minelab and got a quick response. They requested me to try a factory reset and try the machine again and I did..... they sent me a UPS return authorization for it to get checked out. If I didn't have a couple of other water machines, I would be upset but I couldn't ask for a quicker response..... Stay tuned.

Cliff
 
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