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  1. R

    machine probe RX Gain

    Ah. Thanks for the explanation. :)
  2. R

    machine probe RX Gain

    What does "null the coil" mean? Is that the same as setting the ground balance? (I do just what you said for ground balance -- first go to pinpoint and make sure I'm not over any metal -- a feat in itself in some places -- then set the ground balance.)
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    New to Forum, new to V3, first impressions, questions

    It amazes me that there is so much trash in yards. Did people never pick anything up? Of course, the way our culture is going, in a hundred years they'll need to invent a "plastic detector" to find anything we left behind.
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    New to Forum, new to V3, first impressions, questions

    I went out for about an hour today, and I dug half a dozen bottle caps, but I suspected they were bottle caps before I dug them, because they didn't peak on the 2.5 KHz. But at this point I'm still digging them, just to be sure. I got a solid "penny" hit that turned out to be a copper ground...
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    New to Forum, new to V3, first impressions, questions

    Still learning ... went to the schoolhouse today, dug everything that either had a bell shaped signagraph or had the 2,5KHz highest. Found some old iron bits (which correctly ID'd as iron), a piece of aluminum (which ID'd as a quarter), and part of a gold(*) ring. The ring was the most...
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    My Pulltab with the Spectra V3

    Finding it is one thing, identifying it is another. Think of it like radar -- radar can tell you there's a bogey headed your way. It can probably make a pretty good guess whether it's a plane, a balloon, or a missile. It can probably even tell you roughly how big it is. But it can't tell...
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    New to Forum, new to V3, first impressions, questions

    OK, I did some more experimenting today at the old building site. I was a little more systematic this time, and I'm starting to come to a conclusion, which I'll get to in a minute... I decided to work a very small area and try different settings to see the effect. I worked the only area...
  8. R

    New to Forum, new to V3, first impressions, questions

    Oops. I really should be more careful when I use "cut and paste editing" -- each target has two lines that say gain of 15, boost on, with a different distance. My bad -- the first line should be gain of 7, boost on. The distances are right, I just didn't edit the gain when I cut and pasted...
  9. R

    New to Forum, new to V3, first impressions, questions

    I did some air tests today, and the results are interesting, but they also make me think my best course of action is still "dig everything", or at least "dig everything with a nice curve to the signagraph". I measured by laying a plastic measuring tape parallel to the shaft and moving the...
  10. R

    New to Forum, new to V3, first impressions, questions

    Thanks for all the pointers! I will look into the smaller coil. In the meantime, I continue learning... I went to two sites today for a couple of hours total. Here's what I learned. The "hits hardest on high frequency" trick for identifying bottle caps seems reliable for me -- every time I...
  11. R

    This is kinda strange

    Maybe freezing and thawing are pushing them back to the surface? I know the fields often sprout rocks out of nowhere around here, and that's supposedly what does it.
  12. R

    New to Forum, new to V3, first impressions, questions

    Well I went back to the same site this evening for another half hour before it rained, and tried a few things. First, I set the ground balance (twice, just to be sure), and then put it in "coin" mode. It was just as noisy as earlier today. Then I checked the sensitivity probe and set the gain...
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    New to Forum, new to V3, first impressions, questions

    Greetings! I have done a lot of reading in the last week or so, but this is my first post here. Just yesterday, I bought a new Spectra V3 to replace my old Garrett GTA 1000. I've had the GTA for many years, but haven't used it very often, primarily because it just never seemed to find much...
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