jimmy24us said:
MarkCZ said:
Different tones isn't going to effect the actual depth but it can change the constant up and down chirps and beeps.
Air testing my F70 and the little hunting I've got to do with it I've found that for MAX depth the threshold closer to zero helps, at a sensitivity of 80 I'm thinking you could bring the threshold up to maybe -1 (minus 1) and get more depth.
Great find!
Mark
I will try running it hotter I am still kinda settling into it a little. I am impressed with the depth I am getting even at lower settings. I Found a quarter size flat button at an easy 10" with lower settings I don't remember exactly but it was around 60 sens and -1 to -3 thresh. This was after a previous day of soaking rain. Now the ground is really drying up fast which is limiting where i can hunt. But I feel a good fall coming up and some deep finds to come
I guess I am going to have to force myself to try less tones
Do what makes you happy...you are doing great and you only learned a little of what this thing can do.
EMI or no EMI it does seem to me I get the most info, reliable info, from 1, 1F or all metal.
Once in awhile I use 2F...I usually split my time between really high settings on all metal or 1F, disc low, sense in the 80's or higher, thresh between -2 and 1.
I used to hunt in 4H mostly but in high EMI situations and tons of trash the jumping was driving me nuts, then one day I went back to a crazy site with more iron than you would probably believe and spent a lot of time trying to learn to find the really hidden and masked goodies.
All metal and mono tone worked the best.
Then as I hunted my regular sites I used those settings more and more, got used to watching the screen which you must do along with listening closely, and just got comfortable with it over time.
Going deep these seemed the best to use for me, too, on DE especially the reaction and recovery time is almost instantaneous or seems to be.
I don't use multi tones much anymore, just when I hunt parks for coins and shallow jewelry.
That is me, read my threads about my methods and you will find outside the box thinking doesn't begin to describe me sometimes.
For me they work and that us all I care about.
Just figure out what you like the best...finding great treasure doesn't seem to be a problem for you.
By the way, the sense settings and power levels might not be exactly what you think they are.
1 to 99 is not exactly the same as the range of volume on a stereo.
There are 2 sections, 0-30...31-99 or something like that.
Each section has a certain low level it will get to, you can't drop below that and this is not the lowest sense level power-wise.
There are some vids and posts about getting pretty deep on these platforms at 1-10 sense levels and this is why.
60 is not 2/3rd power, 50 is not half, 33 is not 1/3rd power, 10 is not 1/10th power and so on.
I am not sure but I think 60 might be something like 75-80% power and the rest of the 40 increments comprises the upper 20%.
Don't quote me on this but I read about it a few times from more technical types and it makes sense.
I can get to 5-6" on a dime in good soil on 20, 30 sense works great with the big coil in really trashy sites with surprising depth.
