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I've had an XS for two weeks and found 10 wheats, a '41 merc. dime, a Japanese coin and a lot of current coins. I detect in a mining town which is very trashy and the good sites have been gone over many times. I have been going over a yard for a couple of days and the XS started acting up.
The crosshairs are all over the screen and tones (high to low) are constant. Anyone know what is going on?
 
Yes, tried that. It started two days before in the rear of the house and I noticed I was beneath power lines so I moved out from under and it seemed OK. Next day I decided to see if I could detect that corner of the yard and went under the lines and used noise cancel it stopped the noise but I didn't find anything. Ever since its been acting up at shorter and shorter intervals. Should I send it in?
 
Have you check your battery to see if it has a good charge and has good connection??
Also there is some areas where there is too much junk for the 10 inch coil and you may have to try it with the 5 inch coil if you have one.
In other area how does it work??
 
I checked both they seem OK. I tried it out in my basement (its snowing again) and it seems to work fine, I got the hum and it overloads on the rebar.
But as soon as I step outside it goes nuts I dont even have to point it at the ground. Course' it's snowing.
 
Sounds like electrical or RF interference.. have you had it to any other sites outside yet? if it does it everywhere somethings wrong, but there are some spots that even noise cancel might not help.. although I havent seen any yet.. there was one yard I hunted with the Sov that no matter what I got interference, never tried the explorer there yet.. any way if you run into a site like your talking about(if it works ok everywhere else) use noise cancel with coil flat on ground without moving it, then run in auto sens at a lower setting like 20 or less, since you say it acts ok in the cellar its probably not your machine.....
 
The same thing happened to me. The machine was really erratic, even when I held it off the ground. I just turned it off for about 5 minutes, turned it back on and it worked fine again. Still does it every once and awhile.
 
First I'd like to thank all you guys for your advice, you guys are awesome. I got on the phone with Mark from Minelab in Las Vegas (good guy) and we talked about interference from the airport near their business, at unpredictable times there is some kind of interference that has to be adjusted for. Well same thing here except there is a powerplant less than a mile from where I live. Now heres where I feel stupid, you know how there is manual sensitivity and auto sensitivity?
Zoro had this one all the way, I was adjusting the sensitivity down in the auto mode all it took was switching over to manual and thumbing it down two notches, fixed! Sheesh.
Thanks again.
 
Did they tell you why you were able to eliminate the interference better in manual than in auto?
 
I have found that auto will try to adjust itself too often, if the interference is intermittant then auto mode nmay be readjusting all the time, causing what sounds like stuttering, in manual mode you are probably over powering a false to a null so you dont hear the stuttering.. funny but the place I have problems is by an aiport as well.. must be radio traffic or radar
 
We have the same trouble on the beach near Jersey West 27 runway when the large metal birds come in to land they automatically send out a burst of VHF transmission called ACARS (Aircraft Communications And Reporting System) this drives the Explorer crazy for around 5 seconds for each plane arriving about 200 foot overhead, XS also goes nuts with GSM phone in pocket being interagated by cell sites every few mins,
 
Yes, he said that in auto that the XS is allways trying to push the sensitivity up regardless of what the numerical value on the screen. When I was having the problem in auto I turned it as far as I could down with no result. In manual all it took was down two numbers to stabilize.
 
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