Coin signals are not clean and my call to Garrett today didn't clarify why.
My friend jumped from an ACE to the MAX last month and he told me how coin signals are "scratchy" in the dirt and air testing and he can't get a feel for what a coin should sound like. I finally had an opportunity to visit him yesterday and it doesn't compute with me either. Ive owned both the ATP & ATG so I have a basic understanding of the platform; they were chatty in our soil using Pro mode so I moved on to other units.
1. Created a clean patch of ground in his front yard, dug a quarter in the process, using All Metal.
2. Sensitivity 2 bars below max
3. Ground Balanced using the button: 92
4. Swept the area in Coins and Zero modes - no tones
5. Dropped the clad quarter we found on top of the soil and the signal was a clean tone for the most part with the center of the coil over the target. At the edge of the coil using a normal sweep or wiggling the tip on/off the coin there was a secondary tone, almost an iron grunt (iron audio off), mixed in making it real scratchy.
6. Placed a 1880's Morgan Dollar in the same spot and got the same results.
7. Rarely, using Coins or Zero modes, did we get a good clean high tone.
The Garrett rep I talked with today said that sounds normal but didn't expound on why. How confusing it is for a user to have to deal with that secondary tone when coin shooting especially when it's free of all targets. My friend said he'd get those same scratchy tones in air tests too. Garrett rep said to send it in and they would check it but if that's normal why spend the extra money and down time. I told him to make a video and send it to them.
I'm sure he'd be grateful for any insight I can pass along. Thank you.
My friend jumped from an ACE to the MAX last month and he told me how coin signals are "scratchy" in the dirt and air testing and he can't get a feel for what a coin should sound like. I finally had an opportunity to visit him yesterday and it doesn't compute with me either. Ive owned both the ATP & ATG so I have a basic understanding of the platform; they were chatty in our soil using Pro mode so I moved on to other units.
1. Created a clean patch of ground in his front yard, dug a quarter in the process, using All Metal.
2. Sensitivity 2 bars below max
3. Ground Balanced using the button: 92
4. Swept the area in Coins and Zero modes - no tones
5. Dropped the clad quarter we found on top of the soil and the signal was a clean tone for the most part with the center of the coil over the target. At the edge of the coil using a normal sweep or wiggling the tip on/off the coin there was a secondary tone, almost an iron grunt (iron audio off), mixed in making it real scratchy.
6. Placed a 1880's Morgan Dollar in the same spot and got the same results.
7. Rarely, using Coins or Zero modes, did we get a good clean high tone.
The Garrett rep I talked with today said that sounds normal but didn't expound on why. How confusing it is for a user to have to deal with that secondary tone when coin shooting especially when it's free of all targets. My friend said he'd get those same scratchy tones in air tests too. Garrett rep said to send it in and they would check it but if that's normal why spend the extra money and down time. I told him to make a video and send it to them.
I'm sure he'd be grateful for any insight I can pass along. Thank you.