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F5 Gain & Threshold settings needed please help

T

Treasure Pleasure

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Hello Everyone,

Well I finally toke my new F5 out yesterday and found there is a little learning curve from my F2. Can anyone give me there Gain and Threshold settings that you like to use on your hunts. I had my machine running really hot it was jumping and bouncing around a lot even after ground balancing. What would be a good setting to stabilize the machine a little more?

Any help is greatly appreciated!:please:

Thanks
 
just a suggestion but this post may be what your looking for http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,1632081

HH Tony
 
The link posted here is a good one, with a lot of good tips from Mike Hillis. Mike Hillis is the guru of the F5. He got his F5 shortly after I got mine in 2008 and I've been following his suggestions and advice ever since.

What I disagree with in this link is the idea of getting the detector EMI stable with the coil held still being the optimal.

What I constantly point out is that with the F5 you want to run the detector as hot as you can get it and still be EMI quiet with the coil in motion. That is an important distinction. The F5 is unique in the way motion of the coil over the ground mitigates EMI, EMI that you will hear at significantly lower settings when the coil is not in motion.
 
Marcomo can give good advice.

I run at lower settings because much of my ground is hot. I light up all four FE304 bars and often cannot hit small surface targets if I raise the gain too high. SInce I'm hunting for small/tiny low conductive jewelry items, I tend to run lower gain settings in the more mineralized ground. In more moderate ground I have no problem raising my gain higher and using the in-motion stability settings.

HH
Mike
 
Point well made, Mike.

I have to remind myself more often that different folks often search for different types of keepers in very dissimilar ground.

Four FE bars is some nasty soil...
 
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