Frank MD posted a good test yesyerday......

[KCK]

I had to jump right on it tonight. As soon as I got off work I built a fire out in the sun room...I had just installed new pipes and had to do a burn off. So this was a great time time to watch the pipes burn off and do some out back tests with FrankMD's idea's.

I placed a quarter and a dime on the ground. I checked Fe Read and I manually ground balanced...Sensitivity 60 (Normal PowerOn)
Then I checked the sounds and reads on both the dime and quarter.
Then I turned the sensitivity down to 30.... Did identical swings, at the same speeds. The only difference I could see on reads or sounds was I lost about 1-inch of depth...That was it....The only difference I could see, nothing else....Some of you guys try this and see what you can see....

I can do without 1-inch for that kind os stability! It was very stable in read Numbers and sounds!

Let me know how yours turns out!

KCK

 

[FrankMD]

Hi KCK. You turned your sensitivity down to 30 from what?

Thanks

Frank

 

[KCK]

From the normal 60 at powerup!

 

[FrankMD]

n/t

 

[earthmansurfer]

Interesting test. But, I'm thinking an air test is going to test different than an in the ground test. I don't have a test bed so it will be interesting to see where that ends up.

I do remember hitting a target at 6" or so deep with 80 sensitivity. I think it was in mode Db. The signal faded off pretty low (would have missed audio if alot of targets were near) at a sensitivity of 50 to 60. IF MEMORY serves me correct. Of course we need some testing.

Thanks for the test KCK,
EMS