All Metal Mode

[Vincentvgo]

Just started detecting with mt xterra-70 and am doing all right with the pattern settings finding a lot of junk and a few coins so far, but a friend asked me to try to find his steel rod boundry markers for his property. So I went over and put the all metal mode on and the thing just seemed to go crazy, jumping all over the place on the numbers and I had it set for 4 tones and that was pretty wild also. No way I could locate anything really. My sensitivity was set at 9, I had auto Ground balanced, I thought everything was good but couldn't find the markers. Went back into a pattern for non ferrous and found a couple items right away. My question...In all metal mode what would be good starting points for settings to find those steel stakes?

 

[Terra1959]

Hi Vincent,

I have successfully run AM much higher than 9.
My experience has been that numbers can jump around a bit in AM when over ferrous objects.
Instead of ground balancing I usually use tracking these days and it works well for me.
One thing that I can think of why it went crazy is perhaps you GB over a buried metal object.
I also use 4 tones as I cant cope with 99.
Could it have gone crazy cause you were close to a big target ? like the steel rods - or was it crazy all over the area ?
You could try by making up a pattern discriminating out all non ferrous and leaving only very low and very high notches activated - maybe that would suffice.
good luck

T59

 

[critter getter]

Some time the pins are really close phone and electric cables and that make them jumping all over . i own a fencing company and have to find them every day. some times you can use the detector and sometimes you just have to get out the plot plan and a tape measure. I used my XT70 last week to find some and they came up as --4. One of them locked on hard and the other was jumping all over but there was a spot that kept coming up as --4 and that was it. I was in AM