Went out with the repaired Legend (new main board according to the receipt) - default reset of V 1.11, then loaded a coin program. New LG24 coil on it as well. Went to a park I visit now and then. Did not have a good experience. Found 12 coins in 1.5 hours, and still having problems with the VDI jumping around, intermittent tone that was completely unreliable...it was so screwy that I got the brilliant idea to turn the vibrate feature on so I would know when I was over a target that the circuitry was identifying. Doing this, I was able to go back and forth over a target or two, and come to the conclusion there was something there to dig. I gave up at that point, with a handful of coins and Legend not working right.
Tried the next day for an hour at another park - found a broken watch and a grand total of 4 coins...still not sounding right or ID'ing correctly. At this point, said screw it again, and came home and dumped V 1.11 and loaded V 1.09. Default reset, and went to a third park, found 3 coins in an hour - still having issues with the Legend not sounding right or giving me stable VDI numbers. I've literally tried every single and multi-freq, changed from All metal, to Ground, to Ferrous mode, tried Park and Field, adjusted recovery from 2 through 7, IF from 2-6, auto selected the best channel for detecting, adjusted sensitivity between 23-29, ground balanced, etc...nerve racking to say the least. I know it's bad when I'm complaining to my wife about it.
Early this morning, said OK, let's try another V 1.09 software reload. Did that, default reset, etc. Went out to a fourth park nearby, and detected for 2 hours. Found 29 coins (2 quarters, 8 dimes, 4 nickels, 15 pennies). This was the best result after four tries, and while it was better, I am still not happy with the situation. I've had recurrent trouble with V 1.11 since it came out, which is why I reverted back to V 1.09 again. I'm having a very hard time getting the detector to give me stable VDI or tone when I'm sweeping with it. The other thing I've noticed is that the detector does not ground balance like it used to. When I hit the balance button and pump the detector up and down, I do not get the type of grounding response I used to (pre-version 1.11). I can't explain that any better than to say it does not respond as it used to, even in my own yard, where I've used the detector countless number of times. It's just not responding right. This did not seem to be a problem before (from last year until recently). I would love to chalk it up to user error, but I feel that after several hundred hours on the detector, and having found more than 2,000 coins with the Legend, I have a fairly decent knowledge of the detector now. I'm really frustrated right now. I was very confident with the detector leading up to, and after the three V 1.10 betas were released, and Beta version 3 ran like a charm on my detector. After I loaded V 1.11, which took at least a half dozen reloads before it would work, it was downhill from there. The detector became so unstable that I sent it in for repair recently, and just got it back, with notation that the main board was replaced. So full circle again, having used it 4 times now since getting it back, reloaded V. 1.11 and V 1.09 twice, and still do not feel confident about how the Legend is working...at this point, I will just keep trying until I get so frustrated I put it away for awhile...
