Minelab X-Terra Voyager

[ivconic]

Now...
What follows is such a crazy story that I'm still under the impression... it all actually happened only half an hour ago.
A man from another town visited me and brought a Minelab X-Terra Voyager, new, just unpacked.
The problem.
When only the detector is turned on; detector works, all controls work, all buttons work, everything works normally.
But when the coil is attached; the detector will not turn on.
Also, when the coil is disconnected and the detector is turned on, if the coil is connected at that moment; the detector turns off immediately.
A ten-minute visual inspection shows that it is a totally new, never-used detector. Nothing is irregular.
I took an ohm meter, a beeper, two sheets of paper and began to draw the connection on the coil connector, then opened the detector, and drew everything around the coil connector on the detector box.
In the attached photos you will see a picture of sheets of paper with my "scribbles".
After a thorough analysis of the wires and connections...I noticed that there is a green wire in the coil cable that has an unnatural short to one of the other wires in the cable.
A desperate attempt, some would say "Solomon's solution"... or "how Alexander solved the Gordian knot problem"...
I simply cut the green wire in the coil connector with a nail clipper and shorted and insulated it.
I plug the coil into the detector, turn on the detector... everything works great!
For the next half hour I thoroughly tested the detector on various handy "targets", various coins, iron, minerals and ferrites...
The detector works perfectly correctly, no problems at all!???
Problem solved. The guest left happy.
Conclusion... no conclusion because nothing is clear to me!???
There's something... the detector doesn't have the typical Minelab watermark sticker. There is no serial number sticker on the coil.
The quality of the plastic seems to me (maybe I'm wrong) not to the level of Minelab quality.
There you go... another amazing career experience.
A person learns while he is alive. No matter how many crazy "Murphy" cases I've seen in my life... there's always a new one waiting around the corner.
I have no explanation.
Maybe it would be good if someone from Minelab saw this and commented (I highly doubt it).

[EL NINO]

https://www.minelab.com/metal-detectors/x-terra-voyager

Hello Ivconic, this is the lowest model from Minelab, to complete the class of low cost detectors... and fill this niche in the market.

[ivconic]

Yes, its performance is modest but not negligible.
If only I had a detector like this in 1987 when I first picked up a detector (Arado 120)... eh!
But I'm surprised that Minelab doesn't put a watermark sticker on the detector and a serial number sticker on the coil.
It just doesn't look like them.
As well as the catastrophic error in the coil connector... everything points to this series of detectors being manufactured by a third party.

[EL NINO]

Yes, the performance of today's basic detectors is not bad..., but on the other hand, today's top detectors really prove to cross a certain performance limit in various technical areas of detection... and here more significant differences can already be seen.

[ivconic]

There used to be too many "enemies" in the past, but we had no "weapons".
Today we have too many good "weapons", even more than we need... but there is no "enemy" anywhere in sight!

[EL NINO]

Yes, Ivconic..it's true...it's still about what terrain you're detecting on... If you find a new place...you have good targets..even with a basic detector..But if you're detecting on already heavily traveled terrain..you need to get some detection advantage with a Technically Advanced detector..to get new targets...