Picked up a 1270 from Richard at backwoods great transaction and now for some advice

[Keith Southern]

I ran it a little in the house yesterday and the threshold would kick in about 8.5 to 9 sensitivity with volume halfway.took it out today and it was all I could do to get it above 7 in air without the threshold getting real loud and erratic so backed off and turned the volume up to about 7 and sensitivity about 5.5 and she was smooth running. any one else notice sites like this.

Im talking in the air not on the ground. On the ground I could get higher setting as long as the coil was moving.do you think its electrical or just the way it runs my other 1270 seemed to max out and run .

On a side note ive had alot of detectors in my life and this has got to be the hottest one yet the airtest on it are unreal I would state them but dont want to start nothing but its deeper than what ive ever ran at half throttle.

The detector is very volume dependent I notice to low and it hurts the depth more than the sensitivity setting does. too high and the audio seems to mush up the signal on good targets about 6 or 7 seems perfect and adjust the sensitivity to it. the work in unison in some peculiar way like ive never seen sort of like on the coinstrike.

any how any input would be appreciated in what settings ya'll are running. also this is a machine manufactured at first Texas not Los Banos and its put together real well.

Thanks

Keith Southern

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Keith,

Did you try it with the volume maxed out to see what sensitivity it could take? With one of the early production 1270's before the later factory mods I experienced interference similar to that near roads. Funny thing but it was Ford products going by on the highway that caused it, nothing else just Fords. Check inside and see if it has the mods.

Tom

 

[Keith Southern]

but it has a manufacture date on the board that says November 2007 so they might have redid the board instead of just adding the extra resistors on top of the old ones. That always looked sort of junky the way they did that.tried it hear at the house and its back to normal I can max out the volume and still turn up the sensitivity to about 8.5 to 9 with just some small chatter so it was something in the air at the other spot I guess .Hope first texas hasnt forgot about the mods and just puts them together from the parts bins not knowing about the modifications.I wonder why they dont shield the boxes? i know i took my edge and shielded it and its super smooth around power poles and zero falsing at high sensitivity.

 

[Jackpine Savage]

No date shown but it does have that part number shown ending with a B.

Good to hear its working fine and was probably just that one spot you were at. I bet you are getting over 15" on a nickel in air tests,.. 17"?? That would be good!

Despite having no GB in Disc the 1270 is a d*mn deep machine in most ground conditions. Its one of my favorite candidates for waterproofing for fresh water. No need to use all metal, just lower the iron disc below 4 and go for it. Nails double beep at that setting and the depth on rings and small gold items is fantastic in most of my lakes here. I doubt any of the new PI's coming out would compete with it for depth.

Tom

 

[Mr.Bill]

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[BarnacleBill]

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[Mr.Bill]

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