seeker195456
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I finely got to take my AT Pro out yesterday for the first time for a few minutes. The snow is all but gone where I live, and I thought I would just check out my yard. I do not have a very big yard living in a small city here. In my back yard, I could run the sensitivity just one notch under full before falsing would start using the pro mode. I was using the custom setting with 35 in the iron discrimination and everything else above it accepted.
I worked my way up the side yard to my front yard and my AT Pro went nuts falsing. Then I realized that about 10 feet above my head is my houses electric lines from the street. I had to turn the sensitivity down to the second notch to stop it. I dropped a penny on the ground and still had about 4 to 5 inches from the coil for a good pickup. Once I was not under the electric lines, I could raise my sensitivity back up where I had it before.
During my 15-minute hunt, I did dig up two small aluminum scraps from the siding of my house, one 2-inch piece of rusty sheet metal and a 1973 dime that was about 5 inches down. I have hunted my yard to death with my other detectors and still found a dime. So it goes to say that a place is never really hunted out totally.
Now I still have to learn what this machine is telling me, but I am sure that I am going to be happy with it. I really like the simplicity of the setting over the DFX that I had earlier. I also like the DD coils separation of targets over the standard type coils used before. I will get to know this coil very well before I spend money on a smaller coil. I think unless you are really loaded up with a lot of close spaced junk in the ground, you may not need to use a smaller coil at all. Just cross your swings and pick out the good from the bad.
I worked my way up the side yard to my front yard and my AT Pro went nuts falsing. Then I realized that about 10 feet above my head is my houses electric lines from the street. I had to turn the sensitivity down to the second notch to stop it. I dropped a penny on the ground and still had about 4 to 5 inches from the coil for a good pickup. Once I was not under the electric lines, I could raise my sensitivity back up where I had it before.
During my 15-minute hunt, I did dig up two small aluminum scraps from the siding of my house, one 2-inch piece of rusty sheet metal and a 1973 dime that was about 5 inches down. I have hunted my yard to death with my other detectors and still found a dime. So it goes to say that a place is never really hunted out totally.
Now I still have to learn what this machine is telling me, but I am sure that I am going to be happy with it. I really like the simplicity of the setting over the DFX that I had earlier. I also like the DD coils separation of targets over the standard type coils used before. I will get to know this coil very well before I spend money on a smaller coil. I think unless you are really loaded up with a lot of close spaced junk in the ground, you may not need to use a smaller coil at all. Just cross your swings and pick out the good from the bad.
