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False signals with F5
- Thread starter MilesofTx
- Start date
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Hi Miles
Have you used a metal detector before?
The deep grunt tones will be iron objects, usually heavily oxidized. Depending on where you have your discrimination set at, these will either repeat or, as you are discovering, will hit once and then go quiet as the discriminator kicks in and silences them.
Regarding the 30 + signal....if you have a good clean, repeatable audio, you had a good target that you lost while trying to recover it.
You may want to get a electronic pinpointer to help recover targets. You can get a cheap one if needed. I used a $20 Little Wizzard II for a couple of years before I upgraded to something different. Remember that with postive threshold numbers, the F5 will pickup very small targets that could be hard to locate if you are expecting to see a nickel or tab, and in reality are chasing a tiny rivet.
If it was just a non-repeatable chirp, that would most likely be an iron false, or, if your settings are too high for the site, EMI.
Hope that helps,
Mike
Have you used a metal detector before?
The deep grunt tones will be iron objects, usually heavily oxidized. Depending on where you have your discrimination set at, these will either repeat or, as you are discovering, will hit once and then go quiet as the discriminator kicks in and silences them.
Regarding the 30 + signal....if you have a good clean, repeatable audio, you had a good target that you lost while trying to recover it.
You may want to get a electronic pinpointer to help recover targets. You can get a cheap one if needed. I used a $20 Little Wizzard II for a couple of years before I upgraded to something different. Remember that with postive threshold numbers, the F5 will pickup very small targets that could be hard to locate if you are expecting to see a nickel or tab, and in reality are chasing a tiny rivet.If it was just a non-repeatable chirp, that would most likely be an iron false, or, if your settings are too high for the site, EMI.
Hope that helps,
Mike
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Cool. I think you picked a great to detector to learn with. You won't outgrow this one very fast.
Has a bit of a learning curve but still, you'll learn more about metal detecting with this unit than most.
Good luck with it.
Mike
Has a bit of a learning curve but still, you'll learn more about metal detecting with this unit than most.
Good luck with it.
Mike
WisconsinMD
New member
hi miles I'm down in Florida for vacation and I also am new to the hobby and I also bought an F5. Been detecting on the gulf side beach in all metals mode and found some spots like that too. From what I read about beach detecting there are spots on beaches that are highly mineralized which will give ur machine a beep but nothings there. It took me a couple times to figure out the good beeps from these phantom spots. I still find some and fool myself and dig and find nothing lol
Now I have to say the F5 has found some pieces of iron about 3/8 big 8" down give or take an inch but was just amazed at how awesome it was that it found it. Even though it was junk I'm loving the experience i'm getting from digging everything. So not sure how other detectors do I have to say we made the right choice for our first detectors. I been having a BLAST! Wish my to friends were loving it as much as I was so I let them off the hook and let them go do what they want while I go to the beach hehe
Now I have to say the F5 has found some pieces of iron about 3/8 big 8" down give or take an inch but was just amazed at how awesome it was that it found it. Even though it was junk I'm loving the experience i'm getting from digging everything. So not sure how other detectors do I have to say we made the right choice for our first detectors. I been having a BLAST! Wish my to friends were loving it as much as I was so I let them off the hook and let them go do what they want while I go to the beach hehe