Garrett Pro-Pointer AT Users.......................

[digger460]

Got my pointer on Friday. I used it immediately after work, and no I didn't read the directions. (Com'on ) Anyway I turned it on and that was it. I started using it and was impressed with the depth it was getting. Then after about ten minutes, it started making an occasional different sound. Best I can describe it, it sounds like a siren on a police car in England. So imagine that sound when I came close to a target. Then after another 5 mins., it constantly did it, I had to shut it off, to get it to stop. Turned it on again, and it just kept going off with the police car siren. Figured, enough of this, I'll read the directions tonight, got diggin' to do.

Read the directions, and Saturday I took it out. Turned it on, everything fine, again for the first 10 mins., and then a replay of Friday.

Before I return it because I think somethings up, what are your thought's on the way it's operating.

-Both days, I just turned it on. No adjustments.
-No powerlines, or underground cable's.
-I took the battery out that came with it, and put a brand new one in.

Any thought's??

PS It's raining

 

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[MrMikeJackie]

Yes, change your battery. That's all it is.

 

[mxh5891]

Make sure you are putting in a fresh new battery. Sounds like it's the battery to me. Mine acts weird when the battery is low.

 

[ChampFerguson/TN]

Agree. Battery.
If not, it probably needs to go back.

 

[cactusman]

Mine did the same thing -- shortly after I got it. I wasn’t worried, as I've heard that sound before, with my original Pro-Pointer, and it means the battery is going out. My Pro-Pointer AT came with an Everyready 9-volt, unlike prior, where I believe it was Energizer. Anyway, the Pro-Pointer AT fired right back up and is still on that Energizer I put in it.

I wonder if some batteries Garrett got weren't defective, as the Pro-Pointers usually go for a long time before needing a new battery. I always take spare batteries in my "detecting kit" that I bring in my car, for both my detector and my pin-pointer. That and some other "goodies" I keep in there have saved many a hunt...

 

[digger460]

Thanks all. Nice to hear that's probably all that it is. to ya!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Ya mine does the continual beeping then constant blaring when the battery goes.

 

[stewielouie]

My AT Pro goes bonkers when the battery's are low. First time it did it, I was like WTH is wrong with this thing........ A fresh set always brings it back to reality.