coinscratcher
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THE SCREEN SHOWS A RAINBOW COLOR ON IT IS THIS NORMAL AND ALSO THE PERSON THAT SOLD ME THE DETECTOR SAID WHEN THE BATTERIES GO BELOW HALF THE DETECTOR STARTS TO ACT UP ALSO IS THIS NORMAL. THANK YOU.
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QUESTION ON THE AT PRO
- Thread starter coinscratcher
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Yes and yes...especially if you are wearing polarized sun glasses...even not wearing them and in the best of circumstances, its nearly impossible to read that screen for anybody other than Chuck Yeager, who is alleged to have 20/10 vision....so I'm saying your rig is 'normal' to the AtPro I have...
So what I do is this: set up the rig to a preferred program, like Pro zero, iron off, 3 clicks from full sens. all these are saved features, then, a guy starts up the machine, holds the disc button and counts to '10' which gives a fellow a disc of 40....if you want 35, you just click down 5 pips, and commence to swing away...I have never once ground balanced, or used the pinpoint button, about the only button I might fiddle with is the sens...generally dropping it in heavy trash, and running it back up to no more than 3 down from full...
Now as far as the batteries, yes, the thing seems to crap out in function once it gets down a few integers, so I guesstimate time and change them when they are down to one bar...generally after they fall off 2 bars...then I use those same batteries in an alternate mfg's rig, and get another 10+hrs of good clean hunting out of them!
Anyway, rainbow or not, that screen is too dang small and hard to read to be worth a durn, and dont try to run this rig effectively once the tank gets below half....still, its a gold grabbing son of a gun, a guy gets prob 15hrs on the batts, with iron off and never using PP button...other than these two issues, and a few others, like the camlocks getting clogged up with silt, and freezing the shaft forever in place...I really like this rig, and hunt by tones with it in the water/beach only, never once tried it for hunting a dirt field or anything, thats what my other rig is for...
If a fellow was a detector mfg and was contemplating on making a rig like this, one would think, "hey, I bet a lot of old guys will buy this, and use it in the water, and I bet they will all be half blind and wear polarized sunglasses, since thats what all folks wear when hunting around the water..so lets make a dinky complecated screen that washes out when they try to look at it, just to give them all something to whine about!".."And, lets throw in a non-linear gas tank gauge so the poor blind cheap dope walks a mile from his car only to get 5 mins of hunting time when he thinks he has a few hours left on those batteries!" If this was the idea, it succeeded on all counts!
Mud
So what I do is this: set up the rig to a preferred program, like Pro zero, iron off, 3 clicks from full sens. all these are saved features, then, a guy starts up the machine, holds the disc button and counts to '10' which gives a fellow a disc of 40....if you want 35, you just click down 5 pips, and commence to swing away...I have never once ground balanced, or used the pinpoint button, about the only button I might fiddle with is the sens...generally dropping it in heavy trash, and running it back up to no more than 3 down from full...
Now as far as the batteries, yes, the thing seems to crap out in function once it gets down a few integers, so I guesstimate time and change them when they are down to one bar...generally after they fall off 2 bars...then I use those same batteries in an alternate mfg's rig, and get another 10+hrs of good clean hunting out of them!
Anyway, rainbow or not, that screen is too dang small and hard to read to be worth a durn, and dont try to run this rig effectively once the tank gets below half....still, its a gold grabbing son of a gun, a guy gets prob 15hrs on the batts, with iron off and never using PP button...other than these two issues, and a few others, like the camlocks getting clogged up with silt, and freezing the shaft forever in place...I really like this rig, and hunt by tones with it in the water/beach only, never once tried it for hunting a dirt field or anything, thats what my other rig is for...
If a fellow was a detector mfg and was contemplating on making a rig like this, one would think, "hey, I bet a lot of old guys will buy this, and use it in the water, and I bet they will all be half blind and wear polarized sunglasses, since thats what all folks wear when hunting around the water..so lets make a dinky complecated screen that washes out when they try to look at it, just to give them all something to whine about!".."And, lets throw in a non-linear gas tank gauge so the poor blind cheap dope walks a mile from his car only to get 5 mins of hunting time when he thinks he has a few hours left on those batteries!" If this was the idea, it succeeded on all counts!
Mud
Steve Keppel
Member
I have no problem with the rainbow effect-rarely notice it [probably because of our Calif. drought problem: no rain, no rainbow effect!] And my Rayovacs [and Kirklands] give me around 24 hours. Don't notice much performance drop-off until 1 bar remaining. Just my experience...
My eyes are polarized...
Great machine.
I haven't gone back to the ACE 250 since.
I'll just lend the ACE 250 to whoever wants to come along and hunt the scorched rocky soil we have here in Carso Triestino.
I change my rechbats as soon as they go to 2 notches, mainly because I noticed the readings on my ACE 250 always went crazy with low batteries and they seemed to ring high, then dip low to iron.
Being so far away from Garrett, I would never dip my AT Pro under water. I'd use it in the rain, but not under water. Nope.
Great machine.
I haven't gone back to the ACE 250 since.
I'll just lend the ACE 250 to whoever wants to come along and hunt the scorched rocky soil we have here in Carso Triestino.
I change my rechbats as soon as they go to 2 notches, mainly because I noticed the readings on my ACE 250 always went crazy with low batteries and they seemed to ring high, then dip low to iron.
Being so far away from Garrett, I would never dip my AT Pro under water. I'd use it in the rain, but not under water. Nope.
coinscratcher said:
No it is not. If it were Garrett would have made all AT Pros that and would not be contradicting themselves. The owners manual says one bar remaining for battery replacement without issues. "...so people accept this behaviour as NORMAL, so everyone will continue to live with this situation ..." from another issue 2011.
For what it's worth, I have used 3 sets of batteries (Duracells) this year in my AT Pro and each time (just out of curiosity), I purposly hunted for over an hour with only 1 bar remaining and can't say I noticed any difference in performance. When I finally changed the batteries there was still only one bar remaining and I was impressed.
Frank G.
Frank G.