RMP91
New Member
Greetings!
I've owned a Garrett Ace 350 for a little over a month now, found a few hundred dollars worth of clad, a variety of foreign coins, a few pieces of gold jewelry, and several silver earrings/pendants, and even an old axe-head!
But that's not why I'm making this thread.
Recently, my Ace has been having issues that I can't seem to fix through conventional means. One day at a park I frequently hunt at, it suddenly started giving off signals all over the frequency chart. It kept going from iron to silver to gold to pulltabs to just about every other signal threshold, all within the span of 3 seconds. I tried to aim the coil up in the air hoping it'd stop, but it would do the same thing even though the coil is 1-2 feet up in the air and there's obviously no airborne targets. I didn't have my headphones on me at the time so people were gawking at me like I was doing something illegal
I ended up ending my hunt early because of this now-frequent malfunction.
Some days, it works just fine and I sometimes find some decent stuff with it. Other days, it'll have tantrums such as the one described and I go home empty handed with a malfunctioning $300 machine.
Is this something all detectors have an issue with or is my Ace a lemon?
I've owned a Garrett Ace 350 for a little over a month now, found a few hundred dollars worth of clad, a variety of foreign coins, a few pieces of gold jewelry, and several silver earrings/pendants, and even an old axe-head!
But that's not why I'm making this thread.
Recently, my Ace has been having issues that I can't seem to fix through conventional means. One day at a park I frequently hunt at, it suddenly started giving off signals all over the frequency chart. It kept going from iron to silver to gold to pulltabs to just about every other signal threshold, all within the span of 3 seconds. I tried to aim the coil up in the air hoping it'd stop, but it would do the same thing even though the coil is 1-2 feet up in the air and there's obviously no airborne targets. I didn't have my headphones on me at the time so people were gawking at me like I was doing something illegal
I ended up ending my hunt early because of this now-frequent malfunction.
Some days, it works just fine and I sometimes find some decent stuff with it. Other days, it'll have tantrums such as the one described and I go home empty handed with a malfunctioning $300 machine.
Is this something all detectors have an issue with or is my Ace a lemon?