weird thing happened with wife's etrac

[etrachunter]

My wife and I both have an etrac. When we go hunting, we have to stay a a little ways apart due to the machines freaking out from being so close together. Anyway, she had gotten an overload on hers and I started walking over to see what she had found. When I started getting close, the machines started Goin crazy, being to close so I turned mine off. She dug up a 1955 beer can, that was pretty cool, then started detecting again. She said her etrac wasn't acting right so I came over to look at it. It all of a sudden wouldn't pick up anything. Not even a coin if I rubbed it across the coil. I couldn't figure out what was wrong, so I did a reset....and still, it wouldn't pick up anything. So we had to leave. We went home, and I was going to put another coil on it to see if maybe it was a coil issue. Before I swapped out the coil, I turned it on to check it again, and it worked perfectly. It's been working great since. I don't know what the issue was. Maybe the overload signal did something? Maybe because I had gotten too close and made it freak out for a moment. ..I don't know. Hope it doesn't happen again. I don't want to have to send it in for repair, because the weather is just starting to get nice here in Washington state.

 

[Goes4ever]

If u do a noise cancel right beside her etrac, your machine will pick a different channel and u can hunt right beside her no problem, my buddy and I both use etracs beside each other no problem at all

 

[etrachunter]

I didn't know that. ..thanks. I guess I had just figured they would interfere with each other, so I've always walked away from her and did a noise cancel, but when I'd get close to her they would make noises. I'll try the noise cancel standing next to her when we go back out.

 

[metalfun]

Will the noise cancel cause her to be quite too?

 

[Will1877]

Ha ha funny.

 

[NebTrac]

I've never had this happen while hunting with another E-Trac user.

Only one time did I have a similiar experience as you did. The cause for mine were buried, high voltage lines going to a building. I guess they weren't buried very deep or something. When I crossed over them, my machine went nuts and I had to shut it down. I moved away from the area to turn it back on and everything was normal.

Of course I had to go back over and try it again to see if "I was right"....yep, shut 'er down again.

NebTrac

 

[BryanM362]

Probably obvious things to try, but make sure all your cable connections are tight and if you have a Sunray Probe make sure it is switched to the main coil.

Maybe give Minelabe a call and see what they say about it?

Let us know if you figure anything out, may help someone else in the future....

 

[etrachunter]

It hasnt done it again since i turned it off and back on. I called minelab and told them what happened and they said that sometimes with electronics glitches can happen. As long as it hasn't done it since and is working fine, I shouldn't be concerned about it too much. He told me if it happens again, that I can send it to them to have them check it out. But it's been working perfect since. The people at minelab are pretty nice. The detector still has 2 years warranty, so I'm not worried about it.

 

[xGregx]

my buddy and me both have etracs and one of us always noise cancel.....