Help!!! Major issue with my etrac

[RelicMedic]

I was going about my business hunting an awesome cellar hole that I've hit in the past. Got a few keepers then all of a sudden, my etrac started giving me foil-button numbers constantly. I lifted the coil and shook it with the same numbers showing up. Took the coil and shaft right off and did a master reset. Then I noticed that if I touch the pins on the main unit where the coil wire plugs in, it will go off with those same numbers...with no coil attached! Please someone tell me my baby isn't fried! I could really use some help here guys. I'm checking to see if there is warranty left on it.

 

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[Murray8144]

Its probably not the solution but did you take the coil cover off and make sure there isn't anything stuck in there?

 

[RelicMedic]

Yes I did

 

[IDXMonster]

You should probably try another coil before you punt and send it somewhere....if you have access to one. Unless it's been abused or inadvertently damaged I can't imagine it would just up and croak.
Good luck....

 

[Jason in Enid]

well first off, stop shorting the coil pins with the detector turned on!

Now, put another coil on (if you have another one) and try that. If the problem persists across multiple coils, it's something in the control head.

 

[RelicMedic]

I didn't do it multiple times lol. I did it once with the tip of my finger to determine if it was the coil or the head unit. The other coil does the same thing. It may be something loose on the plug inside the head unit. I've read a few people had the exact issue before, but wasn't sure what the outcome wa .

 

[RelicMedic]

Update:
I found one pin had some corrosion but it didn't seem like enough to cause a problem. Cleaned it up and tried my small coil on it again. Worked perfectly. Tried the stock coil on it and it started falsing again. Turns out there was 2 problems. The small coil false when I was troubleshooting the problem, but that was due to the corrosion. My stock coil seems to have a short in it somewhere