Tejon problems--or not?

[Kapok]

I thought my Tejon was done for today. I was hunting an old park with some other guys and it was just wigging out. The tones were jumping all over the place and I couldn't ground balance at all. The threshold wouldn't stay put in all metal, and a host of other symptoms. So I put it away and used my backup. However, when I got home I tested it and it seemed fine. So the only thing I can think of is that there was EMI and I was too close to the guy using the CTX machine. But still a bit worried about it. Never done that before.

 

[pinenut]

...or HOT ROCKS...! (one of my local problems..)

 

[amberjack]

how close to the ctx were you when all this stuff was happening?

AJ

 

[Kapok]

Maybe 20 to 30 feet away from the CTX.

 

[Sven]

Sounds like hot rocks, some detectors like Tesoros go bonkers.
Had one area loaded with quarter sized and larger hot rocks, every where.
Had to GB to one of them to be able to detect.

 

[amberjack]

CTX is pretty powerful beast no detector can work while near it but 30 feet should be ok.

did you test it in another spot to see if it worked there? could be like what Sven said or bad EMI, took my MX5 with mono coil to a park just plan wouldn't work put a DD coil on and away I went.

so yeah lots of reasons these things can play up.

AJ

 

[Kapok]

I guess I'll just hope it's EMI plus the CTX in close conjunction to each other. Definitely not hot rocks as I broke out my T2 and it worked fine there.

 

[amberjack]

EMI sounds like then what coil did you have one the Tejon?

AJ

 

[Oldguy]

The only EMI issue that I ever had with my Tejon was when I was near to the wire of an underground "invisible fence" type dog containment system in wet ground. The same EMI effected all my detectors, even my pinpointer, so it was obvious that it was an EMI issue. My Tejon will go crazy if the coil is not connected, I would look at your coil and connector.

 

[pinenut]

Sounds like hot rocks, some detectors like Tesoros go bonkers.
Had one area loaded with quarter sized and larger hot rocks, every where.
Had to GB to one of them to be able to detect.

I keep one in my bag just to adjust to. You do lose some depth running that positive, though.
DD coils do help as well. Hot rocks and concentrics are not a good combo. ^_^

 

[Kapok]

I had the standard 9x8 searchcoil. And it is securely attached--it works fine here in my yard. At that park it was absolutely unusable. I guess I"ll just consider it an EMI issue and move on. If it happens again I'll look into it.

 

[amberjack]

concentric's are more prone to EMI I would go back to that park with DD coil see how it runs.

AJ