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« on: October 23, 2010, 11:33:02 am »
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Hey guys. My name is Kenny from the little town of Warm Springs, GA home of the Roosevelt Polio Clinic. I recently purchased a Fisher F5 detector and am not sure if I am using it correctly. When detecting it is clear until I reach a target (of course). Sometimes it is on the target and will quickly stop humming when I pass the object...others times the screen goes nuts jumping from multiple targets with wild chatter. Other times it will just hold onto an item on the screen such as [TAB] and this will not go away even when I continue to hunt elsewhere. Has anyone figured out the issue or is there a recall?
Thanks so much and I look forward to seeing what exciting things are being found around the world.

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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2010, 01:16:43 pm »
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Welcome from New Mexico!   Someone will chime in on your problems.

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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2010, 03:07:43 pm »
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Welcome from Australia, Kennyb.

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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2010, 03:57:27 pm »
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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2010, 04:56:16 pm »
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I have no answer for your problem sorry, but someone here will have a suggestion   Great

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« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2010, 10:27:02 am »
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Welcome from New York.
I haven't heard of any recalls, and I do not have a solution to this problem.
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« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2010, 01:53:35 pm »
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Hey, Kenny, welcome to THunting.com.   

Two Things:

1) did you go through the initial set up routine when you got the F5 ?
2) what settings/mode are you operating with?

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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2010, 02:16:50 pm »
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welcome from Texas Kenny!

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« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2010, 12:34:29 pm »
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Thanks for the reply.

 (Metal Detector FISHER F5)

I did go through the initial set up and Ground balance as suggested. I can be searching along and all of a sudden it will start flipping through every metal type and bleeping many different signals...and continue this no matter where I move the detector. It is not like it is on any specific thing...it just goes crazy. Then I will shut the machine off and reset. But it happens often. Keeps me guessing if it even works well. lol
Thanks so much for the time to help me. I am new at this and any direction is greatly appreciated.  Angry

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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2010, 11:06:15 am »
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This video may help. 

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  (especially the part about changing the frequency)
 
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