Sparrow565
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Hi all! I’m very new to metal detecting but I’ve been interested in the hobby for a while. At my girlfriends house, I found her dad’s old metal detector and I quickly became obsessed with it.
Today, we found so many rusted items, including the biggest, and unfortunately last: a hatchet. After digging it up, we realized the metal detector was loudly giving the whine it makes when it finds something on the mode we were on, which was “Smart trac”. We looked at the detector and noticed the cable fell out. We plugged it back in and it wasn’t working again.
I tried everything it says in the manual, the cable is not damaged in any way and the screen says the batteries are “G” which I assume is good because it’s above “Fair”, the only thing I didn’t try that the manual recommends in trying new batteries.
Additionally, I went into my girlfriend’s garage to find her dad’s “Discovery 1000” (?) which had the same type of 5-pin cable as the Time Ranger. The Discovery 1000 works pretty good, you had to be close to the metal for it to pick up and it did its job. After detaching the search coil from the Discovery 1000 and attaching it to the Time Ranger, the Time Ranger still couldn’t work. Now for more info, the Time Ranger can turn on and I can hit all the buttons, but if I put metal in front of the search-coil, it will not beep or anything and off I unplug the search-coil cable from the detector, the loud beep ensues and only muffled if I change the setting or put the search-coil cable back in.
Today, we found so many rusted items, including the biggest, and unfortunately last: a hatchet. After digging it up, we realized the metal detector was loudly giving the whine it makes when it finds something on the mode we were on, which was “Smart trac”. We looked at the detector and noticed the cable fell out. We plugged it back in and it wasn’t working again.
I tried everything it says in the manual, the cable is not damaged in any way and the screen says the batteries are “G” which I assume is good because it’s above “Fair”, the only thing I didn’t try that the manual recommends in trying new batteries.
Additionally, I went into my girlfriend’s garage to find her dad’s “Discovery 1000” (?) which had the same type of 5-pin cable as the Time Ranger. The Discovery 1000 works pretty good, you had to be close to the metal for it to pick up and it did its job. After detaching the search coil from the Discovery 1000 and attaching it to the Time Ranger, the Time Ranger still couldn’t work. Now for more info, the Time Ranger can turn on and I can hit all the buttons, but if I put metal in front of the search-coil, it will not beep or anything and off I unplug the search-coil cable from the detector, the loud beep ensues and only muffled if I change the setting or put the search-coil cable back in.
