What problems have you been having, Possumcop, that now look to be the result of a defective coil? I have been away/out of the country for about 10 days, so I'm trying to catch up on what I've missed, but I didn't see anything saying you were having trouble with a coil. 6", or 11", and what are the symptoms?
Owassokie -- glad to hear that you have had a breakthrough with the machine; we've talked before and I know you were having issues. I wonder if you did indeed have some firmware issue, that was fortuitously and inadvertently "fixed" with the update? Whatever the case, I'm glad -- as this really is an impressive machine and now you may finally be able to experience that.
Steve
Steve,
My Nox has become overly chatty lately and getting worse. I was constantly doing a noise cancel, ground balancing, lowering my sensitivity and removing my coil cover cleaning out any soil, sand or whatever in an attempt to settle it down.
Monday when Truth and I were hunting it had gotten to the point that I could barely stand all the chattering, I did the aforementioned corrective actions and I even did a "FP" hoping to settle it down, but what seemed to help for a minute or so didn't, the noise returned.
I was still finding a few things, but it had gotten so bad Monday that it was literally giving me a headache with all the noise. I started paying more attention to when the chatting got worse and noticed that if I were to swing my coil to fast from left to right or vice versa or when doing the "Wiggle" to pinpoint, it was really bad. I also noticed that even in calf high "Bahia grass" or if I bumped the coil against something, no matter how lightly, it would sound off. I then reached down and moved the coil cord, where it is permanently attached to the top of the coil itself it would go crazy. The only time it was quiet, except for the slight threshold hum in the background, was when it was perfectly still, especially when it was horizontal to the ground while I was digging up a target.
About midday I met up with Truth to see how he was doing and I asked him if he was having any trouble with his stock coil and he said "No, his coil was quiet except when it passed over a target". I let him listen to my Nox and he said "Brother, you've got a bad coil or something, you need to call Minelab".
The following day I contacted Minelab USA and when the Tech / Rep or whatever she was called me back, I started telling her what was happening, she basically cut me off, asking for the coils serial number, confirmed it was in warranty, gave me an RMA number and told me UPS would be emailing me a shipping label. She further stated, once I received the shipping label, to package the coil with it's cover and return it. After they received my coil, she said they would then ship me a new coil and coil cover.
She never elaborated as to what the issue was nor did she state whether or not it was an ongoing problem they've seen in the past. To be honest, if it wasn't for me having her check the warranty on my two (2) Profind 25's, which one (1) is pretty much gone and the other is starting to head that way, both of which are past their two (2) year warranty, my warranty claim for the coil would've been finished in record time.
So bottom line Steve, either something inside the coil itself has worked loose or the permanently affixed coil cord has a short where it connects to the top of the coil itself. All I know is, I've been having trouble with it pretty much since I've had it, but it wasn't no where's near as bad at the beginning and I shrugged it off as either EMI / RFI or ground mineralization issues. I can't wait to get that new coil and see what it's really like to hunt with a Nox that the only noise I hear is a slight threshold hum in the background (my choice) and a tone whenever I pass over a target, instead of constant chattering.
Take care Steve, God bless you and yours… "D"
