Fisher 1266-xb

[boracis]

Hi - have a made in june 1996 Fisher 1266-xb and would like help using the 2 discrimination settings so I can tell when am likely to have gold. Can easily get rid of iron but after ?????

New here and picked up this unit in Gov. auction. From what I have read is an early "deep seeker" and has reputation of being noisy. Probably is as the 1st discrimination setting is automatic for all metals. I think it is critical with this guy to get discrimination right or it sounds off like my PI.

 

[MarkCZ]

A lot of people never even used the dual discrimination control, but they have their place but to each user they get used a little differently.
Without toggling it, it runs disc #1 push the toggle forward and it toggles to disc #2.

So, generally the disc #1 would start off at a lower setting than disc #2

Here is one way a person could run the disc controls.
Set disc #1 to just disc out a small nail, or just before it drops out a Nickel or maybe just breaking up a little on a Nickel,
then set disc #2 upwards to lets say a screw cap.
Now when you hit a target in disc #1 and it hits good (solid) you can toggle it to disc #2 if the target drops off then its not likely to be an upper range coin, and seeing how it hit solid its not likely a Nickel (this would be a possible coin hunting method)

That's just an idea of how to use the dual disc, you can form a window in between two different target ranges of your choice.

Mark

 

[boracis]

Mark - appreciate your reply. Sooo - if I am interested in jewelry on the beach, set disc 1 to just below where I expect the range to start for jewelry, and then set disc 2 to just over where I expect it to end. When I get a hit in disc 1, I go to disc 2 and if the hit goes away, I dig on disc 1. YES ???

Tks, Boracis

 

[WV62]

I only used disc one for the most part and I would run it as low as could stand, maybe just above small iron and dig all repeatable signals. The reason for that is the 1266 will lose depth at higher disc settings. So if you have your second disc set high like above zinc pennies you may not be able to get the deep silver coins.

Just always keep the depth lose in mind when setting your disc.

But lets say you lost your wedding band in the back yard and you have access to another one just about the same. You can make window with the 2 disc and have a better and faster time of finding your ring.

Maybe you just want to find nickels, you could make a small window by setting disc one a little low and disc 2 a little high or to where it just starts to crack up, and you should find a lot more nickels that day.

You will find that the 1266 is not a good machine for small gold, but should do pretty good above small. If you have some samples you could put under the coil you should get an idea of how big is small and what you could expect to find with the 1266x. The 1266x does love silver, but not in the form of chains.

I have another brand of machine with 2 disc and it does not lose depth with higher disc settings, but I still only use disc 1.

Ron in WV

 

[MarkCZ]

Mark - appreciate your reply. Sooo - if I am interested in jewelry on the beach, set disc 1 to just below where I expect the range to start for jewelry, and then set disc 2 to just over where I expect it to end. When I get a hit in disc 1, I go to disc 2 and if the hit goes away, I dig on disc 1. YES ???

Tks, Boracis

Well, the problem in hunting like this is jewelry can be all over the place, small ladies rings can land at the foil range, a mans average size wedding ring can hit in the upper Nickel range, while a mans class ring may go as high as a Zinc penny. Then don't forget all the silver jewelry and you don't want to leave the coins.
Hunting for jewelry is great! but it takes patents and a lot of digging.
To best get all the good stuff, coins and jewelry probably the best option is to figure out how small of gold jewelry your willing to go for and set Disc #1 to that range, then listen to the sound of the targets to help sort out bad targets and dig everything that hits good in the remaining discrimination range, A gold ring will have a better sound than a piece of rusty metal that falls in that same range, just like a silver or copper coin will have a better sound than junkier metal that hits in the same range. The 1266 like other beep & dig metal detectors has a language and it takes some time to learn it.

The two discrimination controls for me would help to sort out known targets that hits in a known range, like coins.

Mark

 

[boracis]

grandson is visiting next week and will do some testing for ranges.

Tks, boracis

 

[boracis]

grandson and I will have fun testing for ranges next week.

Tks, boracis