7000 and POWER LINES

HI I do not own a 7000 at this stage and its early days can anyone tell me if they can be used near power lines or Telstra under ground cables thanks regards john

Hi iron bark

Tangled with a Telstra cable Wednesday and could not come within 5 metres either side.
Still operating in "1st gear" at the moment but on factory settings, the Z did not like it.
Cheers   spinna

THANKS FOR THE REPLY

G'day John,

The young Bloke was working near some power line the other day and said he didn't have any problem with them, but I haven't tried it myself, but going on what I had heard they are much better than the GPXs as far as storms are concerned. So I would say they are less effected by EMI. Hope this helps.

Cheers.

Mike.

G'day John

This was a signal power line with no EMI effect at all, I tried it in all the different settings still no EMI from that line, not shure if the power was out to that line but will go back and try it again just to make shure. Haven't tried it near phone lines or pipe lines yet but will let you all know how it goes, not that we'd want to be digging in thous area's anyway.

Cheers Mick

John it's a strange beast with power supplies. I can turn mine on at home (in the house) with no effect on the detector, but in the Coiltek building, it was affected. I've noticed the same out in the field, some sources seem to affect and others not. It does seem generally less affected by EMI than the GPX's, but definitely not immune.

Cheers Cal

Have any of you also noticed that if you have your phone on you..
I have the iPhone
That just before a text messages come through.. The machine goes all hey wire

So I mustn't follow mike around with my phone On me 

Just had another thought when out the other day, done an auto tune and noticed the UHF radio do a couple of hick ups, so maybe these machines operate under totally different frequencies, to the other machines. But I'm only guessing thou.
Or has it got a chip in the coil that takes away most EMI's