Do you like to build your own patterns?

[Lightstryder]

Just out of curiosity, who here likes to build there own disc patterns? Do you find yourself missing anything? Any advantages over the factory pattern? How about rejecting Conductivity 1 on a salt beach, does it seem to help you with falling? Thanks in advance.

 

[Lightstryder]

Wow, no replies. Falsing not falling, oops!

 

[Neil]

I keep my screen as open as possible. I have iron mask set low, just enough to reject a small piece of iron like a bobby pin and I have my smartfind screen set to just take out the nails, so thats the upper left section, just a small portion.
Ive tried different patterns when I get deep signals or mixed in trash signals and patterns have almost always deteriorated the signal response. Really, just like other detectors, targets close to a rejected target are harder to get a clean signal on.
You have to listen more, learn the sounds more and pay more attention to the screen with open screens but I think its worth it.

 

[Markdb61]

I've been running mine a little more open too.

 

[ydoc]

I have always considered the ability to use edit-learn-reject to be one of the best features. As an example I reject all and use learn to to quickly "explore" around an old tree. I then reject all targets that are in the fe region and then detect picking out the targets in the non ferrous that are not blanked. However, mostly I use the factory settings and select to design a pattern then use edit to tweak it based on what I am digging.

Cody

 

[kansasexp2]

I have a pattern I made that is just strictly for coins. I made it by blacking out the entire screen and scanning and accepting every coin I want to find using the medium size cursor. I know I may miss out on some things but it saves me alot of time.