Need Sov TID meter help please.

[fir469]

Well like an idiot I braved the rain yesterday and went detecting. I had my Elite hipmounted with a XS2 rescaled to 180 meter. The sov held up fine in the drizzle but after about 3 hours, all of a sudden it seemed as though my meter went nuts and dropped calibration. At rest it sits at -503/-504 and quarters hit 181. Well it jumped to resting at -403 then to -374 and quarters were hitting 221 and the calibration dial would only move those numbers up or down by 10-15. Is it the rain that screwed it up?? Like water in the meter? If so how can this be fixed?? The detector still functions fine even with the wacky meter attached, I just need to get the meter working right again... Any suggestions??

Thanks guys!!
Jason

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Jason take the meter apart,dry out with a hair dryer and clean with a Q Tip.Buy a rain cover for the meter.

 

[Critterhunter]

Yea, the POT is more than likely wet and that will do wierd things to it's conductivity values as POTs work by feelers or contacts gliding over a surface area inside the POT. Let it sit open for a few days, or if you don't want to open it you might try putting a hair drier nearby blowing at the coil connector where I'm sure some air will get inside. Just don't over heat the thing. If it dries out and still won't work right then you need to take it apart and spray some non-residue electrical contact cleaner (home improvement stores in the electrical section) into the POT, then move the POT around to clean the wipers. Normaly you can find some kind of access hole on the POT to spray into, but if not most come apart by bending back some tabs and/or removing a C-clip. Spray the surface area and wipe clean with a Q-Tip as well as the feelers. Be careful no lint remains, and you might want to bend the feelers down ever so slightly to insure good surface contact. If that still doesn't work most POTs can be recovered by sanding the surface area lightly with plain white paper to act as a very mild abrassive, then re-clean with the spray.

 

[goldnugget]

I think it will be ok in a few days or by the next Day. I've had to use my spare alot on arrival at the Beach.goldnugget-charlotte,north carolina