GTI 1500... Looking for help

[kristin297]

I have a GTI 1500. I bought it last fall. I have used it several dozen times this summer on the beaches around where I live. I have found only a few coins and lots of junk. Does anyone have experience with this detector? Can anyone offer suggests on how to possibly be more effective with it?

Kristin

 

[SpokaneDigger]

Well i have only been at this hobby myself for about a year but i will throw my 2 cents in. You only find what you put your coil over and alot of times that is junk. I would run in Jewelry mode and dig all good solid signals till you learn the machine. Then you can discriminate better on what your machine tells you.
Dont forget if you want gold and nickels you will dig garbage and those o-so-lovely pull tabs we all love sooooo much!

 

[bob1350]

lower the sensitivity and dig the good hits

 

[david764]

The first thing everybody digs junk at first. So you need to use your detector everyday or as much as you can because the more you use it the more you will be able to tell the difference between junk and treasure.I find using jewerly mode works best to start with because most iron items are useless anyway. Try digging all steady signals that don't bounce around most of the time it will be a good target but you still have to expect some targets you dig are junk. Most people think that a target that is deep is a old good treasure but that is not always true I have dug silver dimes at 2 inches and i have dug modern pennys at 6 inches so depth means nothing to the value of the target. Try to listen very closely to the sounds of the target and not so much what the screen says it is because every item has it own unique sound. Just to give you a example a metal twist off pepsi top will give you a solid dime reading but if you listen closely to the sound it will be a solid ding with a blimp sound behind it.A dime will give you a solid ding and nothing behind it unless it has a lot of corrosion on it and it will give a jumping signal so the only thing you can do is dig what you think is good and with experience you will be good at finding better targets. A good signal is one that when you swing your coil over it you a steady reading and when you swing it back you get the same reading that is the target you dig.

David

 

[Uncle Willy]

Run your sensitivity at 6 or 6.5 for some time. If soil conditions allow you can run it higher but start out low. and you'll find more targets The 1500 contains a lot of electronics so scan slow and give it time to do its thing. Don't scan like you're killing snakes. Centering the target corrrectly is absolutely critical for accurate readings and imaging. Watch the cursors at the top of the screen signal intensity ) when centering your target. When they line up all the way across the target will be in the center of the hole in the middle of the coil. Hunt in coins mode for a good spell before playing with the other modes.

Bill

 

[garrettguy]

I remember when I started detecting with my 1500, I just dug the targets that gave a bell tone. Didn't find as much as I wanted. When I concentrated more on listening to the signal, watching the size of the target and where it was displayed on the viewer, I discovered more targets in the same areas I hunted before. Good luck!

Peter