erratic behavior

[shanegalang]

Someone please describe for me what exactly happens when a deleon acts erratic? If your in "bad" soil? Do all the numbers jump around like crazy and even if you turn sens down all the way and disc up all the way nothing helps? What other things make a metal detector "freak out"? Will having a Cortes for instance and utilizing manual ground balance remedy the problem?

 

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[jeff of pa]

Is it erratic all the time ?

Or just some places ?

 

[jharhed]

My Deleon has done it once or maybe twice, had to be interference from something, adjusting sensitivity had no effect.

 

[DD-777]

Batteries going dead? If not, it could be the ground...

 

[SaginawIan]

the same thing happened to me once. There was a site that the thing just went crazy on. My buddy had an xlt and we were both hunting along. I thought it was just me turns out the xlt was doing the same thing so of was likely the ground.

 

[Sandman]

It could have been a cell phone or tower or any number of interferences.

 

[stoney56]

A couple of weekends ago, I was at a lot that was near a transformer pot on a pole and the DeLeon started bouncing the #'s and doing the wa-wa-wa sound in the headphones. Had to back off about 75-100 feet for it to clear up. Later I went back and it worked just fine.

 

[dirtdiver]

I have the Cortes, and the same thing has happened to me about three times. No matter what i did it would not go away. One time it happened in my yard, and the odd thing is that i have detected my yard several times with no problems. I wonder if Ham radios could cause the problem.

 

[LuckyLarry]

One way to get rid of many interference problems is to install a disc capacitor somewhere around .05 to .1 mfd and around 5 vdc (in parallel) on the return wire from the searchcoil. In other words it bleeds off much of the intereference.

That will NOT correct the high gain problem when it reacts to unusually high iron content in bad ground though. Capacitors are used for many different reasons but taming down sympathetic signals or audible noise are two of their best uses. It's a simple process, as easy as splicing into the connection inside the box or simply unsoldering it at the connection and installing the cap inline. It won't hurt the circuitry either, nor the metal detector in any way unless someone gets too wild while soldering.

LuckyLarry

 

[homer007]

THIS HAPPEN TO ME ALSO TODAY. I LOOKED AROUND AND NOTICES I WAS CLOSE TO POWER LINES.

 

[shanegalang]

I pretty much have it narrowed down to the television tower right across the street from where I was. Its a big one, I imagine constantly putting out LOTS of power!
Just going to have to find a place away from down town.

 

[Dixie Digger]

just wait until a F16 goes by jamming..lol.almost knocked my head phones off!

 

[thrillathahunt]

I would say it was some sort of interference. It can reek havoc with any detector at times.

 

[deathhare]

I cant detect in my front yard at all and I dont know why. The detector freaks out bigtime.
There are no power lines above there or any other electrical equipment anywhere around.

 

[BuckleBoy]

When I read the title of your post, I thought this was a Personal Rant about Nick Pappagiorgio.

 

[deathhare]

Is this person responsible for our erratic detector behavior?!
If so....BAN!