DIGGER27
In Memory Of
I wonder if any of you owners have noticed this.
I have been using the Mojave for several weeks on many hunts but on my last one I realized that near the end I wasn't picking up everything anymore, even with my knob down to all metal I was pretty much silent searching, I was still picking up some signals on a few shallow targets but usually with no disc I would get a million hits on the huge amount of trash and iron I have infested in most of my sites...the one I was hunting in for sure.
At the beginning of the hunt I had a decently long battery tone when I powered up but near the end when I noticed this happening I turned it off then on again and that tone was now extremely short.
I have run my Compadre down to nothing a few times over the years I have used it and noticed the tone might get a bit fuzzy right near the end but I still seemed to pick up most targets I came across at all depths it could reach.
This one seems different...once I hit a certain low battery level it is like I lost a lot of depth.
Not a big deal as long as I know this can happen, I rarely run my batteries all the way down on any detector and always a good idea to have fresh batteries around no matter what tools you are using.
As far as battery time I never kept track but this is the original battery supplied by the factory and I probably have somewhere around 30 hours on this thing at least...could be more than that so I am satisfied.
I will put in a new battery and hopefully get out later today and take advantage of the better digging conditions we suddenly have due to a bunch of recent rains.
I am sure it will get back to normal after that exchange.
I have been using the Mojave for several weeks on many hunts but on my last one I realized that near the end I wasn't picking up everything anymore, even with my knob down to all metal I was pretty much silent searching, I was still picking up some signals on a few shallow targets but usually with no disc I would get a million hits on the huge amount of trash and iron I have infested in most of my sites...the one I was hunting in for sure.
At the beginning of the hunt I had a decently long battery tone when I powered up but near the end when I noticed this happening I turned it off then on again and that tone was now extremely short.
I have run my Compadre down to nothing a few times over the years I have used it and noticed the tone might get a bit fuzzy right near the end but I still seemed to pick up most targets I came across at all depths it could reach.
This one seems different...once I hit a certain low battery level it is like I lost a lot of depth.
Not a big deal as long as I know this can happen, I rarely run my batteries all the way down on any detector and always a good idea to have fresh batteries around no matter what tools you are using.
As far as battery time I never kept track but this is the original battery supplied by the factory and I probably have somewhere around 30 hours on this thing at least...could be more than that so I am satisfied.
I will put in a new battery and hopefully get out later today and take advantage of the better digging conditions we suddenly have due to a bunch of recent rains.
I am sure it will get back to normal after that exchange.
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