Garrett probe and hot weather

[The Ferret]

All coils will expand in the heat, that is why Detech originally only made the ultimate in white as to try and cut down on the effect. Nautilus machines have the ability to tune the coils so the the receive and transmit coils are kept balanced as they expend as it gets hotter.
Now I know we pay £80+ for probes and probably think they should react better but in reality, these things cost less than £5 to make and so are not precision instruments. My only suggestion would be to keep it covered somehow.

Allways Cover my probe

[The Ferret]

Your absolute conviction about everything is awesome Geoff 

Garrett manufacture these detectors to function in extreme climates all over the world so I'd be surprised if the Pro Pointers did not have auto stabilisation circuitry for the coils to cope with variable temperatures.

That said ...I would be very surprised if any electronic item worked 100% if left out for a few hours in our current heatwave.

but they are made in the USA is it not hotter over there or can they say its due to the moisture heat? they have Dry heat over there 
Just a thought
TF

[Chef Geoff]

No I don't think it's a universal problem, just one that is showing up with Ian's. If you press the Pro-Pointer hard against anything it will usually sound off, this is virtually the same thing but the pressure is coming from the windings expanding in the probe.

[Radnor Bandit (Ian)]

Thats a good explaination, I gather that there are a lot of these Friday night models out there judging by the forum posts on these.  :-
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[Zorro]

I know Beachboy had to change is probe after only about 18 months, and when you think the total amount of minutes (literally) use that it had that would have accumilated to doesn't make a good advert for garrett. I told him to get in touch with the company but he didn't ...i would have.
Think about it, say 20 good targets a day that you use it on, switch it on , locate target, switch it off....30 seconds Max. 10 minutes tops. doesn't seem to me to have had a lot of mileage on his probe.
Mine on the other hand is working fine...which means tomorrow it'll be knackered no doubt......or ot needed at all knowing my luck lately.