Help--My Explorer XSI is Acting Funny!

[Anonymous]

Hi Guys,
My explorer XS1 is having a problem. It makes noises that sound like "Buh buh huhuhbuh uh huh huhuh". The sound is real low like an aluminum foil low tone. It is interfering with regular signal tones and sometimes occurs when there is no target present in the ground. Sometimes it happens even when my coil is not moving. Noise cancel does not fix the problem. I tried each channel by changing channels manually. It happens on every channel. The problem comes and goes. It will happen for about 15 minutes and then stop. Sometimes it gets real bad, so I yank the battery out. I may not be yanking the battery out at the correct time because when I put the battery back in, my original settings come back on line. Also, I only remember the XS doing this at one park. Maybe there are some soil conditions causing this? What do you think? Thanks,
Mike

 

[Anonymous]

Thats a strange one..
but I might know what it is.... I was hunting a site out west and I kept gettin these d@mn screwy signal.. I would check the ground and then there would be nothing there. It ended up being an electric fence several hundred feet away that they used to keep the cows in. It was on a timer and every few seconds it would turn on and my machine would go nutso ... noise cancel had no effect.
Maybe there is a yard nearby that has one of them electrical dog fences, the kind that shocks the dog when it goes past a certain line.
Have you tried it at another site where you know you havnt had any problems?
I also had another similiar situation... I bought a new pair of boots and when I was detecting I would keep gettin a signal.. the d@mn boots had metal in them and as I walked when my foot got close to the coil it would sound off ....lol
anyways .... I would try it at another site... if it still does it then call Minelab in Vegas and ask for Dick... he is great at gettin things fixed in a hurry for ya.
Good luck and HH .... Shaner

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Shaner,
Yea man. I will take it to a couple different areas and test it. Then I will try it with alkaline batteries. If it still does it, I will call Minelab in Vegas and ask for Dick.
Thanks for the contact info Shaner!
Mike Unruh

 

[Anonymous]

Slight chance its the coil but most of the time a coil will stay bad. I had a similiar sounding problem a couple of years ago but it would only happen detecting long wet grass. In that case it was the coil but I'm sure its your connector.

 

[Anonymous]

I has some chattering today and when I disconected my coil from my control box of the X1 probe it still would do it, so I disconected from the control head and it was gone, so I figured it was in my new X1 probe, but when I reconnected it and tighten the nut it was fine, so i wonder if it was just slightly lose that caused the chattering as it was fine after I took it off and put it back on and made sure the nut was tight.
Rick

 

[Anonymous]

Thats how mine acts when I get the joey coil or X1 probe box wet, and also a loose coil connection at the control box like CC said... If you got it real wet lately maybe it just needs to dry a bit..

 

[Anonymous]

Mine did that a couple weeks ago. Drove me nuts. It turned out to be the loose coil wire right before it enters the x-1 box (mine hangs a little). When I spanked the loose wire around I got that low foil noise. Somehow the coil was picking it up I guess. I taped it to the shaft to keep it from moving and the problem went away.