When you are using the Ferrous/Coin Target separation option,you will generally see the secondary target cursor show up in the bottom right,even if there’s no real Ferrous item present. Not ALWAYS,but most of the time. If you use Low Trash,High Trash or Ground Coin separation,the cursor will simply show up in one position in red. If you are using any of the separation options EXCEPT Ferrous/Coin and the cursor is traveling between the iron area(generally bottom right) to the “high conductor/coin area”(generally upper right quadrant) and you are getting at least sporadic “coin numbers”(12-34 through 12-48 ), then investigate further. This doesn’t include nickels or other low conductors such as gold items and such. Coins are the easiest to hunt,I’d start there to learn the machine and have some success at the same time. The guys who have run this machine for years make it look easy,and it can be. Just don’t overthink things,keep the machine STABLE and TRUST what it’s telling you. The second I start thinking I’m smarter than it,I’m wrong,almost exclusively.
There’s much to learn,it will impress you in many ways when you become one with it!
One last thing...don’t confuse High Trash MODE which is simply a preset selection of settings and discrimination to hunt coins....with High Trash SEPARATION,which is meant to work a little quicker in trashier areas and can be used with quite a bit of discrimination. High Trash separation will also report a good ACCEPTED target(not discriminated out) even if a larger stronger REJECTED(lands in the blacked out discriminated area) target is nearby.
Put as many hours on it as you can and remember what’s happening so you can build on that. It is an incredibly addictive machine to run,I haven’t tired of it after several hundred hours.