lordmarcovan
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Greetings, all.
I have a problem that's been nagging me a while, but procrastinated for months and months without doing anything about it. I bought a Sun-Ray inline probe (forget the model number, but it's for my Garrett GTI-2500 detector) sometime last year, I guess it was. I got it new, from an eBay seller who seems to sell a lot of detector supplies. (Wish I could remember the name, but I guess it's not relevant, anyway).
The probe worked fine for about two weeks, then suddenly became unusable due to a strange problem- when I flip the toggle switch over from "coil" to "probe", I get the "telephone" sound- a constant ringing (the Garrett's overload signal, in other words). The probe would not work at all and would only make the overload ringing trill, regardless of whether it was in the ground or the air, or touching metal or not.
Then, a day or two later, it worked again.
Then, a day or two after that, the problem resumed, and the probe has been unusable since. I have procrastinated for so long about doing anything about it now that I fear I am well beyond any warranty period, and I cannot remember if I ever registered it in the first place or not.
I have repeatedly tried disconnecting and reconnecting all the cables. Recently, wondering if the problem might be the detector, I borrowed a friend's GTI-2500 and hooked the probe up to it, with the same results- the dreaded overload signal. So apparently the problem lies in the probe somewhere.
I should add that I am a total electronic idiot. But maybe that is good, because it saved me the temptation of tinkering with the innards of the thing on my own. I have left it alone now for several months, but since I paid good money for it, I finally told myself I need to do something about this and get it fixed.
Does anybody have any suggestions for last-ditch efforts I can make? Or is it just time to send it in for repairs? Where and to whom do I send it, anyway?
Thanks in advance for any help.
-Rob Shinnick/"lordmarcovan"
Oh, and so as not to start out on a sour note here with my first post being a cry for help/complaint, I will make an attempt to post some recent digging stories and pictures to the boards.
If I could get my probe working again, it would be a joy.
Thanks again.
I have a problem that's been nagging me a while, but procrastinated for months and months without doing anything about it. I bought a Sun-Ray inline probe (forget the model number, but it's for my Garrett GTI-2500 detector) sometime last year, I guess it was. I got it new, from an eBay seller who seems to sell a lot of detector supplies. (Wish I could remember the name, but I guess it's not relevant, anyway).
The probe worked fine for about two weeks, then suddenly became unusable due to a strange problem- when I flip the toggle switch over from "coil" to "probe", I get the "telephone" sound- a constant ringing (the Garrett's overload signal, in other words). The probe would not work at all and would only make the overload ringing trill, regardless of whether it was in the ground or the air, or touching metal or not.
Then, a day or two later, it worked again.
Then, a day or two after that, the problem resumed, and the probe has been unusable since. I have procrastinated for so long about doing anything about it now that I fear I am well beyond any warranty period, and I cannot remember if I ever registered it in the first place or not.
I have repeatedly tried disconnecting and reconnecting all the cables. Recently, wondering if the problem might be the detector, I borrowed a friend's GTI-2500 and hooked the probe up to it, with the same results- the dreaded overload signal. So apparently the problem lies in the probe somewhere.
I should add that I am a total electronic idiot. But maybe that is good, because it saved me the temptation of tinkering with the innards of the thing on my own. I have left it alone now for several months, but since I paid good money for it, I finally told myself I need to do something about this and get it fixed.
Does anybody have any suggestions for last-ditch efforts I can make? Or is it just time to send it in for repairs? Where and to whom do I send it, anyway?
Thanks in advance for any help.
-Rob Shinnick/"lordmarcovan"
Oh, and so as not to start out on a sour note here with my first post being a cry for help/complaint, I will make an attempt to post some recent digging stories and pictures to the boards.
If I could get my probe working again, it would be a joy.
Thanks again.
