Noisy Sov in all-metal Pin-Point!!

[Arthur-Canada]

I have an original Minelab Sovereign with the original white coil. It has been one of my most successful detectors for finding old coins in the 23 years I have been detecting. I put it aside for a few years in favor of older vintage machines which were lighter to use in farm fields. I have gone back to using it and I find in an area I love to detect, when I set the unit down in pin-point mode, I get a continuous wap wap wap wap wap sound. It is greater in some directions than in others. I'm assuming interference from electrical wires either overhead or buried. Any thoughts? Is it a bad coil?

 

[gfatizzi]

You are correct in your assumption. Unfortunately, the Sov is very susceptible to EMI interference. Your case sounds like a textbook example. Still my all-time favorite detector anyway! Over the 28 years I've been detecting, I have by far found more good targets with the Sov than any other detector I've used, bar none.
HH, George Fatizzi

 

[OldBeechnut]

I have an original Minelab Sovereign with the original white coil. It has been one of my most successful detectors for finding old coins in the 23 years I have been detecting. I put it aside for a few years in favor of older vintage machines which were lighter to use in farm fields. I have gone back to using it and I find in an area I love to detect, when I set the unit down in pin-point mode, I get a continuous wap wap wap wap wap sound. It is greater in some directions than in others. I'm assuming interference from electrical wires either overhead or buried. Any thoughts? Is it a bad coil?

I would say EMI also but it should do the same in Disc mode. And with a bad coil you get about the same results, in PP n Disc modes. Let us know once you get into a different area what happens.

 

[Arthur-Canada]

I would say EMI also but it should do the same in Disc mode. And with a bad coil you get about the same results, in PP n Disc modes. Let us know once you get into a different area what happens.

It does do it a bit on disc mode, but I can turn most of it down with the sensitivity. These things must have been designed in Australia before they had electricity!