You LTD guys try this.
I live in the red clay dirt area of Virginia.
Most of the time my black LTD in boost mode chatters a lot.
This time I changed all the previous pre-conceived notions of high sensitivity and went with a more modest settings and found out something interesting.
I had read where the LTD has a fixed output signal and the sensitivity only changes the amplification of the receiving signal.
I first put the machine in all metal and switched between the different frequencies to find the most stable one.
Switched back to discrimination mode and started with a sensitivity setting of 45 and disc at 0. Totally surprised at how stable it ran even close to some power lines.
One thing was noticed right away, the volume of targets were more noticeable. Got a good sound very low volume high tone that repeated. Stopped and increased the sensitivity to 60, yep the volume increased more than 100%, but so did the chatter. Dug a 6" plug and sweep over the hole again, yep still there. Pulled another 2" of dirt out and fired up my propointer to find the exact location. Carefully removed the remaining dirt to find a silver nickel at over 8" deep in my bad Virginia dirt. Ending up not using my head phones because of an open short in the cord, but did uses these setting for the rest of the day. Hunted an area where the machine was always unstable in the past and ended up with 5 wheat pennies 3 of which were well over 6" deep with a sensitivity setting of 45 or below.
I live in the red clay dirt area of Virginia.
Most of the time my black LTD in boost mode chatters a lot.
This time I changed all the previous pre-conceived notions of high sensitivity and went with a more modest settings and found out something interesting.
I had read where the LTD has a fixed output signal and the sensitivity only changes the amplification of the receiving signal.
I first put the machine in all metal and switched between the different frequencies to find the most stable one.
Switched back to discrimination mode and started with a sensitivity setting of 45 and disc at 0. Totally surprised at how stable it ran even close to some power lines.
One thing was noticed right away, the volume of targets were more noticeable. Got a good sound very low volume high tone that repeated. Stopped and increased the sensitivity to 60, yep the volume increased more than 100%, but so did the chatter. Dug a 6" plug and sweep over the hole again, yep still there. Pulled another 2" of dirt out and fired up my propointer to find the exact location. Carefully removed the remaining dirt to find a silver nickel at over 8" deep in my bad Virginia dirt. Ending up not using my head phones because of an open short in the cord, but did uses these setting for the rest of the day. Hunted an area where the machine was always unstable in the past and ended up with 5 wheat pennies 3 of which were well over 6" deep with a sensitivity setting of 45 or below.
