coin strike help needed (really bad too)!

[tombarrett80]

i purchased a coinstrike and have had it out a few times, found a couple coins but i am really lost. i just use it on factory preset setting. i have no idea on where to start with the settings. i read the manual and watched the video but by the time i get going,so much happens (different signals) if get lost on what to change. can someone give me some direction on what to do...where does a rookie start with changing the settings? are there some basic settings that will work well? i have found a couple coins but have found enough nails to start my own sub-division! thanks for any help. my email address is tombarrett80@yahoo if anyone has some help for me! thanks,tom

 

[Bill Ladd]

First off, the C$ is a very powerful detector with lots of bells & whistles that can get confusing to a beginner. For many, it took 30-40 hours in the field to get comfortable. Just take your time & don't get frustrated right away. When you said you've been using the pre-set that right there sent up a red flag Even FRL admitted they made the preset too "hot" (I have suggested it should have been 525 for years and that's why I even have that number in my screenname still....)To begin, turn your threshold & sensitivity way down. It's got so much power we find things with sensitivity on 1. Turn yours back to 3 or 4 to start. Drop that threshold down. 0 is way too hot for minerialized ground. Dial it back to -25 or -30. This should calm your detector down considerably. Don't even worry about things like averaging/ auto tracking/memory, etc. right yet....
Then pick some sites that are not super challenging at first. Don't take the C$ to your most iron trashed place or the wet sands of a beach. Take it to a park, or ball field. Dig some clad coins noteing how they read & "lock" in as non-moving numbers. We all dug nails at first, but try to sweep your targets from different directions and then nails/sm. iron should go negative. Good targets "sound" better too, but that takes practice to tell the difference....
Finally, Google "The Coinstrike Homepage".....it's loaded with info. and I think even a "tips guide" I wrote you cann print out that should help....
good luck,
Bill

 

[tombarrett80]

thanks for the help bill, i can use all the help i can get! i wrote down your tips and i will try these things. i have one other question if you don`t mind... when a experienced person is treasure hunting do you have to adjust your detector often or do you basically leave it on one setting? thanks again for your help!!

 

[mtdoramike]

the sensitivity is to hot for that area. I also might change the discrimination in real trashy areas, but that's about it.

 

[mtdoramike]

change sites or even in the same site if soil conditions change.

 

[tombarrett80]

you mentioned you would change the discrimination setting for trashy soil, if you were hunting around a old house and were picking up nails and such what would you set your discrimination on? i went out last weekend and i set the sen. on 4 and the threshold on -30 and discrimination on 99, to be honest with you i could tell no difference in those settings and the factory preset....it seemed to pick up nails just the same. i played around with the sen. and the threshold but i couldn`t tell much difference. i did find a few coins, i could tell a big difference in the tone on a dime and a nail, i did learn that! i appreciate your help and your replies to my post, i can use all the help i can get! have a great evening,tom

 

[mtdoramike]

it will still get pretty good depth. I've dug coins at 4-6" when running a sens. of 2. If you run into electrical interference, you might have to drop the sensitivity down that low, even at the beach, I have had to do this in some places. Now, the higher or lower (which ever you look at it) with the threshold, you will lose a certain amount of depth with the lower in the minus you run. I try to run threshold from -25 to -10 depending on location and stability of detector. If It starts getting irratic or noisy, I will lower the threshold back to -25 or even lower if I have to.

They say that the threshold & sensitivity kind of work hand in hand with the C$, but I'm not that technical, Mike Hillis is the guy for that part of it. You will dig nails with any detector, but the C$ can see through a lot of trash and find the good stuff. But patience in the key with the C$, when I first picked up the C$, I hated it and wanted to stomp it in the ground because it was the noisiest squaking detector I had ever used, but after about 25 hours and a lot of frustration, I started figuring out what it was telling me and then after about 40 hours, I was really liking it.

Just remember with the C$ as with the CZ's, if you try to run to much sensitivity, I think it will actually cause you to lose depth rather then increase depth, but then again that's technical, and I aint that technical.

 

[tombarrett80]

thanks mtdoramike, you have been a big help to me!!! i will say i had to laugh when you said you wanted to stomp it in the ground! i have had that feeling myself a time or two, well actually almost everytime i used it!

 

[Prata]

and like you said most of the time I want to trow away the dam thing
but unlike you my is so quiet I'm not sure whats going on
Last weekend I took it to a snow hunt contest its started OK at first than it just stopped like their was nothing there and I new there was
but could pinpoint there was no sound and the screen was all over
I want so bad to understand this machine but its dam discouraging
Keep posting anything you can on the Coin Strike I may one day figure it out
Thanks all