Help My Omega is on the fritz

Ok, so I went to the park this morning for a quick hunt found some clad and a cast metal cat. A little bit later I used it to find a manhole cover under the dirt, It worked perfectly normal. This afternoon I tried to hit a new park and the ground balance was acting like I was sitting on metal everywhere. I thought it might just be bad soil so I set it manually to get rid of my ground error bars, it came out at 14. I thought that was weird, but then I didnt find a single target, not even a crusty zincoln. I thought it was just that park, however when I got home I tried it again and have the same trouble.
It does still detect metal it just has to be big ( like my steel toe boots) to register. The ground balance still acts like it is over metal all the time. I cant think of any reason it went bonkers, it wasnt dropped, I drove down a gravel road but cant imagine that the minor bumps from that would have affected it so severely? I changed the battery, then started testing the coil, Im not too up on dd coils internals, but I have two pins with no connection to any other pins, on pin 1 I get 140k ohms to pins 3 or 4, between 3 and 4 is 3 ohms i have no connection on 2 or 5, I cant seem to find my lcr meter at this second but is it normal for the coil to only use 3 pins? or do I have a bad connection to the coil? Im totally bummed out, but I guess it might be a good excuse to buy the 5"

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I will give that a try hommie, so bummed... but even if it has to go to texas I still have my BH spare. I will copy this over to findmall and see If I can get an opinion out of Dave J

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Ive had it for a few weeks but I bought it used so I doubt they will warranty it, the guy I got it from got it as a gift and only used it a couple times.

Posted on: September 22, 2012, 09:25:48 PM

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I sent Dave J a pm on Findmall (and he got back to me in a few minutes on a Saturday night  )and he gave me some readings to check the coil, Now to find my Lcr meter, but it looks like the coil failed. 

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From the info Dave gave me pins 1 and 2 are the receiver coil, 3 and 4 are the transmit coil and 5 is the shield, I seem to have an open in number 2, after I get done workin today I will open up the connector and hopefully the wire has broken off inside, otherwise its off to the factory.

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Awesome, glad you got it working man

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