The Racer like most other quality detectors is not a detector you take out of the box and set up and run the way you feel it should without getting to know it by taking the time to understand it and learning it as it is not a beep and dig detector. Was told by Monte to take some time and get to know it and you will really like it, well first time out I was not impressed as it was overloading and very noise and dug only larger trash items. Read more on the forum here and decided I shouldn't take it to one of the worst spots around, so went to a baseball field and park to try to get some easy pickings of new coins, but seen it too seems to like bigger items that were deeper and telling me they were only 2 inches deep with the depth meter. Then I got a real solid reading of 88 and it too showed 2 inches, but in pinpoint it sounded even louder that the bigger trash items(crushed pieces of pop cans) and notice it pinpointed in a smaller pattern, when dug was a quarter. I got some overload signals too, but nothing like the first time out with the factory gain settings. I up my filter from 10 to 20 and it helped with the noise, so I up it to 50 and made quite a difference on noise as I was more interested in learning the detector than trying to pick out good items next to trash. Still dug quite a bit trash items from rusty bottle caps to screw caps even in 3 tones as this is where I like running mine. Got a tip on how to tell the rusty bottle caps from the coins from a few on this forum and tried it today and guess what? It works Petty much, but can be fooled too. The tip was to not get in a big hurry to dig, but to listen to the target response more and checking it from several ways and like I was told a rusty bottle cap when getting to the edge of it by pulling the coil back will drop out fast and change the tone, while a coin will gradually get weaker. Starting to pay more attention now to the way the signal sounds and how solid it is and checking it in pinpoint too to make sure I am reading the target and not some other item beside it.
Still have a few more problems yet and got to use it more, but one thing is every target I have found show 2-3 inches deep with some deeper than that, one was a button about the size of a quarter that was around 4 inches deep and the bigger trash items also show at 2-3 inches deep, cant seem to find a item that shows deeper that 2-3 inches deep even weaker sounding target 2-3 inches deep. Now on Friday I tied our local school that been hunted to death and there is some new coins being lost so it is worth a try. got a high and yet went to med tone depending on how you swing the coil over it with a ID of 82-83 and sounded louder in pinpoint than most and it was a zinc penny I was surprised it was giving a med tone mixed with the high tone, but rescanned the spot and seem to give a lower tone that covered a good foot across, so could be the reason. Dug a few alum screw caps that fooled me which I expected and feel once I get to know it better I should be able to tell some of these as some I guess they were, but just had to dig them anyway to make sure. I did find a couple of things that impressed me some with one a decent high tone reading, but yet had the iron tone to it also and it too showed 3 inches deep and being different then the other signals I had to dig. Down around 5 inches I pulled out a very old 5 inch jackknife that the blades were steel and very rusty, but the ends look like copper or brass, so that impressed me. Just before I left I got a nice signal and it too showed 2-3 inches deep and it was what looks like a nice alum jelly jar cover as there is no writing on it, but looks like a couple of strawberry's on it that stand off the cover by 1/8 inch or so. The area I was working is by the now playground, but the original school sat there from early 1900 until 1958 when it was tore down and leveled the area.
The things I have learned and got much more to learn is to be patience and get to know what this detector is telling you, not tying to run it too hot as it is more sensitive than many are at max sensitivity, nice to have too much sensitivity if you need it and turn it down when you don't need it than not to have enough when you do need it.
First time I used it it seem to overload a lot, now only overloads once in a while and that is because of a large target, not had it overload on a surface coin yet, run the factory gain in the 3 tone option. Don't notice much or any real falsing than any other detector I have used, used some with no chatter at all, but those were not deep seeking detectors either. I seem to run a higher filter than factory so I don't have to listen to so much of the trash, but don't run higher then 50.
Those that have one and want to learn it you have to have patience, get to know it well and to learn it, keep it simple and not to run it too hot until you get to know it better then when you know it you can run it hotter. This is what I did to learn my Sovereigns and to help others get to know theirs also.
Good luck to others and many like myself like to read any tips others have to help our learning curve be a little faster.
Rick
Still have a few more problems yet and got to use it more, but one thing is every target I have found show 2-3 inches deep with some deeper than that, one was a button about the size of a quarter that was around 4 inches deep and the bigger trash items also show at 2-3 inches deep, cant seem to find a item that shows deeper that 2-3 inches deep even weaker sounding target 2-3 inches deep. Now on Friday I tied our local school that been hunted to death and there is some new coins being lost so it is worth a try. got a high and yet went to med tone depending on how you swing the coil over it with a ID of 82-83 and sounded louder in pinpoint than most and it was a zinc penny I was surprised it was giving a med tone mixed with the high tone, but rescanned the spot and seem to give a lower tone that covered a good foot across, so could be the reason. Dug a few alum screw caps that fooled me which I expected and feel once I get to know it better I should be able to tell some of these as some I guess they were, but just had to dig them anyway to make sure. I did find a couple of things that impressed me some with one a decent high tone reading, but yet had the iron tone to it also and it too showed 3 inches deep and being different then the other signals I had to dig. Down around 5 inches I pulled out a very old 5 inch jackknife that the blades were steel and very rusty, but the ends look like copper or brass, so that impressed me. Just before I left I got a nice signal and it too showed 2-3 inches deep and it was what looks like a nice alum jelly jar cover as there is no writing on it, but looks like a couple of strawberry's on it that stand off the cover by 1/8 inch or so. The area I was working is by the now playground, but the original school sat there from early 1900 until 1958 when it was tore down and leveled the area.
The things I have learned and got much more to learn is to be patience and get to know what this detector is telling you, not tying to run it too hot as it is more sensitive than many are at max sensitivity, nice to have too much sensitivity if you need it and turn it down when you don't need it than not to have enough when you do need it.
First time I used it it seem to overload a lot, now only overloads once in a while and that is because of a large target, not had it overload on a surface coin yet, run the factory gain in the 3 tone option. Don't notice much or any real falsing than any other detector I have used, used some with no chatter at all, but those were not deep seeking detectors either. I seem to run a higher filter than factory so I don't have to listen to so much of the trash, but don't run higher then 50.
Those that have one and want to learn it you have to have patience, get to know it well and to learn it, keep it simple and not to run it too hot until you get to know it better then when you know it you can run it hotter. This is what I did to learn my Sovereigns and to help others get to know theirs also.
Good luck to others and many like myself like to read any tips others have to help our learning curve be a little faster.
Rick
----Nobody knows the Sovereign & how to get the most out of it like you do!---------Del