Hello all, I just purchased a new V3i ( traded in the soverign gt) and love this new detector! My question is this: when ground balancing the owners manual say to squeeze and hold the trigger while holding the enter button,pump the search coil till background hum becomes steady. When I do this the background hum will null out completely?? Is this what they consider steady ? Still finding lots of coins (all clad so far) but just wondering if I'm ground balancing it right? Thanks!
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Ground balancing
- Thread starter lumacurve
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Neil in West Jersey
New member
When the tone evens out (It stops rising and falling) it is properly ground balanced.
Larry (IL)
Well-known member
If your threshold is nulling out, you are probably over iron, try to find a cleaner spot to GB and follow Neil advise.
Don't forget to reverse the order of trigger and Enter button.
Ground Balance - Squeeze and hold the Trigger press and hold the ENTER button, pump the search coil
(loop) over the ground (1-12 inches) until the background hum becomes steady, release ENTER and then release trigger and begin searching.
Pull the trigger (pinpoint) to find the clean spot to ground balance,
Ground Balance - Squeeze and hold the Trigger press and hold the ENTER button, pump the search coil
(loop) over the ground (1-12 inches) until the background hum becomes steady, release ENTER and then release trigger and begin searching.
Pull the trigger (pinpoint) to find the clean spot to ground balance,
Wayfarer
Member
Do you mean when in pinpoint or all-metal? When I check my GB point in pinpoint, if the threshold goes silent when approaching the ground with the coil, it usually means it isn't balanced properly.
During balancing, mine never gets to being completely even, which is a little disconcerting. The first couple of pumps seem to make a big adjustment in GB point and threshold steadiness. Then I can pump 30 more times and it will still always get a little burst of sound on each pump. This is in clean mild (1% probe) ground.
During balancing, mine never gets to being completely even, which is a little disconcerting. The first couple of pumps seem to make a big adjustment in GB point and threshold steadiness. Then I can pump 30 more times and it will still always get a little burst of sound on each pump. This is in clean mild (1% probe) ground.
