Can someone tell me why the Minelab Sov doesn't air test well??

[M.L. Hinds]

I have been going to a park and ony finding items at say 2 to 4 inches with it!! I took the MXT to same place and pretty much same area and finding coins in the 6 to 10" range.. I know I went over these coins with the Sov. on max Sensitity cause I have done several grids on this area! Am I doing something wrong? I know the X2A pro I had before would air test a dime at 10"!! Could someone school me!! Its an Elite with silent search modes.

 

[Rick(ND)]

The Sovereigns have to see the ground matrix in order to compare it to a target, without it it seems to lose the depth.
Now 10 inches on a dime in a air test sounds a little far as most will only get around 6 or 7 inches I have did air test on, but in the ground I have got them up to 11-12.
Now i will say my experience with the Elite it seem to me the coins sounded deeper than the actually were, but it still seem to get them with no problem, just sounded deeper and had to listen close to the tones more. On sensitivity it is odd you are at max as you know that is only a click out of auto and your Elite should be unstable at this setting if there is any iron at all around. I can run only at max at clean sites and wonder who did the silent search mod on your Elite. If you bought it used I wonder if someone tinkered with some of the other thing in the box when they had it open. I never like the silent search and felt I missed the real deep coins, but in cleaner area where targets were far a few between the silent search worked good so you didn't have to listen to the low growl of iron.
Remember to get the deep one you have to go slow and listen, but if 2 -4 inches is all you can get i would try lowering the sensitivity and going slower and listen more as with the Silent search it it could be nulling and you don't know it and can be going over many coins deeper as you are going too fast. With it nulling and you can hear it you will go slower and hear the deeper ones, but in silent search you don't know it is nulling so you don't slow down.
Give it a try and see what happens.

Rick

 

[Art (NWOH)]

What are you getting on air tests?

Both my Sovs will do 10 or a bit better with a dime, depending on which coil.

Do those shallow coins sound weaker than they should ??

Next time, try turning the sensitivity up and down to see how strong of a signal you can get before you dig up the coins. Sometimes running max sensitivity can really kill depth.

In really dry dirt, I lose a lot of depth if I run sens higher than 11 o'clock.

HH

 

[Tony]

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