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Funny detecting story from yesterday

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scubadetector

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I got to my detecting site yesterday and parked alongside the road. Got all my equipment on including my tank and weights and went to check out my detector. It beeped and squalked and wouldn't shut up. Even raising the coil off the ground gave me a bell tone. I sat down and took out the batteries and then put them back in. Same thing. I was FRUSTRATED!! I sent this machine in so much I was getting upset. Turned it off and on so much played with all the knobs and still wouldn't work. So brilliant me decided to take it to the water and see if it would work better underwater. LOL it worked GREAT. I was absolutely dumbfounded as to why it wouldn't work by my truck. On the way back to my truck it HIT me!!! There was a beautiful dog in the yard and NO FENCE!!! I was trying to make my detector work OVER an underground invisible fence!!! At least it gave me a good laugh! Might have wasted a half hour of my time but everything turned out great in the end.
 
Haha, that's something I never even thought about , glad you didn't have to go back home, Tiger Hank68
 
Glad too hear you solved it.:thumbup:
Reminds me of what happened a month ago when I was
detecting a soccer field.
The detector was pulsating while I was hunting could
not get it to quieten down.
Look around couldn't see anything that would cause this problem.
Looked up and not more than 500 yards was a telephone
transmitting tower. Left the area and went into the out of city park
to hunt it was perfectly normal again.
 
I have found many old bottles and my Model A oil lamp just looking around. Never know what you will stumble upon.
 
That's one more thing to add to the growing list of all the
"things to check when the detector won't settle down". :heh:
Glad you got it figured out. Gold Nuggets :wiggle:
 
sounded like an emi situation as i was reading the story.....not a whole lot of people would have figured that mystery out......we tend to not realize all the micro waves and electric current until our detectors act up...thanks for sharing that tid bit of info..
 
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