jcgarey
Tenderfoot
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Thread Owner
Good afternoon all, this is my first post as I just joined this forum.
I recently acquired an older Garrett GTI 2500 (with Super Deep Imaging Coil) that had been barely used. The previous owner left the batteries in for years and there was slight corrosion. I bought two new battery packs and it turned on with no problem. I did have a consistent noise (constant hum) like it detected a coin. The noise would stop when I would go into the mode/scroll button to change settings but then would come back on when I would go into "operate" mode.
I finally tinkered around and the noise is gone but it will not detect any coins/rings in a test mode.
What could be wrong? Bad coil?
One other thing is that I have fresh AA alkaline batteries and have the right battery mode selected but the battery indicators shows very low battery left but everything works fine. Not sure if this is related but wanted to ask the group.
Thanks for your help.
I recently acquired an older Garrett GTI 2500 (with Super Deep Imaging Coil) that had been barely used. The previous owner left the batteries in for years and there was slight corrosion. I bought two new battery packs and it turned on with no problem. I did have a consistent noise (constant hum) like it detected a coin. The noise would stop when I would go into the mode/scroll button to change settings but then would come back on when I would go into "operate" mode.
I finally tinkered around and the noise is gone but it will not detect any coins/rings in a test mode.
What could be wrong? Bad coil?
One other thing is that I have fresh AA alkaline batteries and have the right battery mode selected but the battery indicators shows very low battery left but everything works fine. Not sure if this is related but wanted to ask the group.
Thanks for your help.