2 tone or not 2 tone, ferrous that is :shrug:

[Ray-Mo.]

I made my own saved pattern with just the top line disced/blacked out except for about one fourth on right side for larger silver coins and it works like a charm.I tried wide open in the quick mask window and it was a constant racket of falses that was not productive for me at all.
I also found that in some tests with a rusty square nail on top of a silver dime I got better results in conductive coins mode as the nail would overpower the high silver with a low iron tone.I feel it behoves each one of us to do our own testing and see and hear just what happens in either set up.Otherwise we will miss some good targets for lack of understanding in both 2 tone ferrous and conductive tones with more discrimination used.I feel you must experiment or you will be cheating yourselves out of some good finds,Ray.

 

[moseng]

I feel it behoves each one of us to do our own testing and see and hear just what happens in either set up.Otherwise we will miss some good targets for lack of understanding in both 2 tone ferrous and conductive tones with more discrimination used.I feel you must experiment or you will be cheating yourselves out of some good finds,Ray.

Wise words indeed!!

 

[Goes4ever]

I start with the relic screen, small amount in bottom right corner disc'd out then I use a small amount of disc at the top 01-01 thru 01-31 and that has pretty much eliminated any iron falsing for me and it runs smooth

I still constantly check signals I find in ferrous sounds by flipping over to conductive to see if I could still detect the signal, and some I could and a lot of them just gives me an iron null. I still say it is a secret weapon for hunted out sites

 

[gregliss]

Totally agree!

I've found the same thing in two tone ferrous, most of the sites I've been on I get a high number of top line iron fulsing. I modified Andy S's coin pattern by removing all of it with the exception of the top line, and I thinned it out a little. Works a treat in in two tone ferrous.

I've been using this pattern in 2-tone ferrous for the better part of a year when I'm in high iron sites, and love it.

Most of the time I'm in conductive with Andy's full coin pattern. Between these two modes I'm confident the E-trac isn't leaving much behind.

Cheers,
Greg