beerbarrel
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To everyone who has an E-TRAC, you may experience a problem I had. After about 7 months of using the E-TRAC, at the beach and dry land, the detector started to give false readings, i.e., 10,11,12 in the ferrous and 01,02,03 in the conductivity, at the end of each swing of the coil or if you "bumped" the coil on someting, sticking out of the ground. Tone ID was terrible also. I found out, after performing a few tests, to see if possible the coil wire was bad, or the box was bad (in which they were not), that the connection, where you would connect the coil wire to the box, had a bit of corrosion on the pins. Mind you, that I did not subject this part of the detector to water. Being on the coast, here in Texas, we are quite humid down here. I simply cleaned the terminal pins, with a Q-Tip and re-connected the plug. I noticed that this connection appears not to be a "water tight or dust tight" connection. After doing this, the E-Trac worked fantastic! Found a Wheat Penny at 9" down in the DRY ground and when I say DRY, I mean almost like concrete! Believe me, the E-TRAC is a fantastic machine!
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