fongu
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I went back to the river today with high expectations. The power company had the water down about 10 inches due to heavy rains up north and I really wanted to work around both the docks. I went to one I hadn't worked much and got on the other side and somehow when my At/Pro fell against my sifter, it disturbed the seal to the battery box. It started acting up and I tried ground balancing, frequency changes & reset, but no good. I thought maybe it's an underground power line and went to the other side of the park. Still going nuts on me. Changed out the batteries, coil and put on another set of head phones and hit the water, same thing. Tried reset and ground balancing and noticed the numbers for the ground balance were 13 to 23 and normal is mid 70's to high 80's.
Back to shore and took the rechargeable batteries out. That's when I noticed the moisture on the batteries. Took off my waders and left the plug for the battery box out and have it standing up and hope when it dries it will work. I fell down before this happened by tripping on a vine and that had me concerned that I would be able to detect and then all this other stuff happened. Real disappointing day to me, but maybe it will work Saturday. I really wanted to take advantage of the water being down, even tho it was less than a foot. Makes a difference when you are wearing chest waders. Hope the rest of y'all had a better day than I did. I just hope I don't have to send it to Garrett. They will take care of it, but I hate being without my water detector.
Back to shore and took the rechargeable batteries out. That's when I noticed the moisture on the batteries. Took off my waders and left the plug for the battery box out and have it standing up and hope when it dries it will work. I fell down before this happened by tripping on a vine and that had me concerned that I would be able to detect and then all this other stuff happened. Real disappointing day to me, but maybe it will work Saturday. I really wanted to take advantage of the water being down, even tho it was less than a foot. Makes a difference when you are wearing chest waders. Hope the rest of y'all had a better day than I did. I just hope I don't have to send it to Garrett. They will take care of it, but I hate being without my water detector.
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