Coin Machine
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Yes..I'm a nOOb, but I'm also very technical orientated.
After dealing with my new F2 and it's problems and talking with Fisher several times I thought I'd share the info..in one thread.
My F2 came just last Friday..not long ago, just a few short days.
That day I put it together and took it out to a local park. Its a BIG park, no power lines, no underground electric that I know about.
I gave up after 20 minutes.
On it's lowest sensitivity setting it was going "nuts." As in sounding signals fast, very fast random patterns...but a pattern non-the-less.no matter were I was or what I was doing. Nothing would stop it other than powering it off.
The next day I went back to the same park, same area and it worked great, for about 30 minutes, then it started going "nuts" again. This time, during the working period, I noticed it would signal when sweeping from right to left..just at the beginning of the arc.
The F2 is designed to signal multiple targets fast, and it will signal a "mixed" target using different sounds too.....so having an F2 sound two or more signals/targets can be normal.
Signaling EMIs is normal too. But my F2 would go "nuts", and NOT stop, when there wasn't any known EMI or targets of any kind...then after a period of time..it would just stop, and all would be well...for a while, then repeat. This was repeated in my back yard as well.
I met a forum member at the park too, he has a Garrett. Mine was going NUTS, and his was silent. He just shook his head.
I was out today and the F2 worked GREAT....until the last few minutes when it went NUTS again..and wasn't stopping. I was getting hot anyway so I quit.
So...I called fisher and spoke with Felix. He transferred me to David, their Tech guy. I stated I had two issues.
After telling him about the F2 going NUTS...he stopped me and asked if I was getting signals while sweeping, but just in one direction..that's when I started telling him about the signals I would get when sweeping right to left and getting hits at the arc of the sweep.
David stated...and I'll quote. "Yeh, we're getting some bad ones."
Then David transferred me back to Felix to get a replacement ordered.
So, new F2 owners....if your MD randomly goes NUTS..and you're sure its not trash or multiple targets and/or you're getting signals at the arc of your sweep..you may have a known "issue" with your unit.
Before calling...here's a short checklist.
Possible EMI?
Possible trash?
Possible multi targets?
Lose the cell phone in your pocket.
Are the batteries NEW...replace with new regardless if it came with a set.
The coil cable needs to be wrapped LIGHTLY around the pole..not to tight but not too loose to be able to move.
The coil wire needs to be tight in the head unit. It's hard to get tight as there's not much finger room...bad design.
So..I hope I've relayed the info in a nice and easy way to understand.
The F2 is a GREAT MD, when it works. EVERY place makes a bad unit once in a while, it happens.
I hope this helps.
After dealing with my new F2 and it's problems and talking with Fisher several times I thought I'd share the info..in one thread.
My F2 came just last Friday..not long ago, just a few short days.
That day I put it together and took it out to a local park. Its a BIG park, no power lines, no underground electric that I know about.
I gave up after 20 minutes.
On it's lowest sensitivity setting it was going "nuts." As in sounding signals fast, very fast random patterns...but a pattern non-the-less.no matter were I was or what I was doing. Nothing would stop it other than powering it off.
The next day I went back to the same park, same area and it worked great, for about 30 minutes, then it started going "nuts" again. This time, during the working period, I noticed it would signal when sweeping from right to left..just at the beginning of the arc.
The F2 is designed to signal multiple targets fast, and it will signal a "mixed" target using different sounds too.....so having an F2 sound two or more signals/targets can be normal.
Signaling EMIs is normal too. But my F2 would go "nuts", and NOT stop, when there wasn't any known EMI or targets of any kind...then after a period of time..it would just stop, and all would be well...for a while, then repeat. This was repeated in my back yard as well.
I met a forum member at the park too, he has a Garrett. Mine was going NUTS, and his was silent. He just shook his head.
I was out today and the F2 worked GREAT....until the last few minutes when it went NUTS again..and wasn't stopping. I was getting hot anyway so I quit.
So...I called fisher and spoke with Felix. He transferred me to David, their Tech guy. I stated I had two issues.
After telling him about the F2 going NUTS...he stopped me and asked if I was getting signals while sweeping, but just in one direction..that's when I started telling him about the signals I would get when sweeping right to left and getting hits at the arc of the sweep.
David stated...and I'll quote. "Yeh, we're getting some bad ones."
Then David transferred me back to Felix to get a replacement ordered.
So, new F2 owners....if your MD randomly goes NUTS..and you're sure its not trash or multiple targets and/or you're getting signals at the arc of your sweep..you may have a known "issue" with your unit.
Before calling...here's a short checklist.
Possible EMI?
Possible trash?
Possible multi targets?
Lose the cell phone in your pocket.
Are the batteries NEW...replace with new regardless if it came with a set.
The coil cable needs to be wrapped LIGHTLY around the pole..not to tight but not too loose to be able to move.
The coil wire needs to be tight in the head unit. It's hard to get tight as there's not much finger room...bad design.
So..I hope I've relayed the info in a nice and easy way to understand.
The F2 is a GREAT MD, when it works. EVERY place makes a bad unit once in a while, it happens.
I hope this helps.