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Help Please: Whats the best way to start.
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The below link leads to a very informative website on using explorers. I have probably read it 10+ times now. I would read it, detect for a month, re-read it and take away more advanced information each time. I recommend it highly.
Jai
http://www.treasuregizmo.com/settings.htm
Jai
http://www.treasuregizmo.com/settings.htm
Charles (Upstate NY)
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Jaichim24 said:
Start off in factory settings, go to select and clear everything then reject nails only, set your sensitivity between 16 & 24 (20) lower the threshold down to barely audible, get some sample coins and various metal objects including iron, pull tabs bottle tops and foil pass them over the coil and listen to the tones check the screen to see where your cross hairs fall, flick over to digital read out and look at the numbers.
It is a bit weird at first but amazingly you will soon start to notice and remember the different sounds your machine is making with each metal item.
Spend around a fortnight in these settings out at every opportunity, practise listening to the sounds when ever possible. when ever you get a signal tthat is in the area of the screen where your desired target is located and it has similar digital read out dig it. all signal to the right and clear of the bottom of the screen i would dig.
You can discriminate out other items from the list in select however you may start to target mask, ie the detector may discriminate out your desired targets as they fall in a close proximity to the discriminated item. this is where the digital read out can help. also you can switch on iron mask and flick between it and your search pattern. to help identify the target.
Once you get confident with the machine you will want to venture in to the various menus and change the settings to suit your search area's, user the collected group of sample materials as you change the various settings listen to the effects each change makes on the audible response you get and choose the ones which you feel confident with.
Remember Clean sites use deep on trashy iron ladened sites fast on deep off, always run sensitivity in manual as high as possible for the site? if you are getting a false signal every time you bump the search head reduce the sensitivity by one click at a time until the falsing has stopped.
If you find all the tones to much and want a break simply go to constant in the sounds menu then you will get the same audio response whatever the target under your coil. the cross hairs and digiral read outs still identify the targats conductivity and ferrous content and the depth gauge remain unaffected, you only get one tone.
Start off sloww learn as you go and do not be affraid of the machine, it may be fraustrating at times but with each signal your target identification experience grows you will dig iron screw caps and pull tabs at first but as your experience grows the volume of these will diminish considerably, ask questions on forums like this the only dumb question is the one you did not ask, we all started somewhere.
Best of luck and I hope you enjot the time youspend metal detecting.
It is a bit weird at first but amazingly you will soon start to notice and remember the different sounds your machine is making with each metal item.
Spend around a fortnight in these settings out at every opportunity, practise listening to the sounds when ever possible. when ever you get a signal tthat is in the area of the screen where your desired target is located and it has similar digital read out dig it. all signal to the right and clear of the bottom of the screen i would dig.
You can discriminate out other items from the list in select however you may start to target mask, ie the detector may discriminate out your desired targets as they fall in a close proximity to the discriminated item. this is where the digital read out can help. also you can switch on iron mask and flick between it and your search pattern. to help identify the target.
Once you get confident with the machine you will want to venture in to the various menus and change the settings to suit your search area's, user the collected group of sample materials as you change the various settings listen to the effects each change makes on the audible response you get and choose the ones which you feel confident with.
Remember Clean sites use deep on trashy iron ladened sites fast on deep off, always run sensitivity in manual as high as possible for the site? if you are getting a false signal every time you bump the search head reduce the sensitivity by one click at a time until the falsing has stopped.
If you find all the tones to much and want a break simply go to constant in the sounds menu then you will get the same audio response whatever the target under your coil. the cross hairs and digiral read outs still identify the targats conductivity and ferrous content and the depth gauge remain unaffected, you only get one tone.
Start off sloww learn as you go and do not be affraid of the machine, it may be fraustrating at times but with each signal your target identification experience grows you will dig iron screw caps and pull tabs at first but as your experience grows the volume of these will diminish considerably, ask questions on forums like this the only dumb question is the one you did not ask, we all started somewhere.
Best of luck and I hope you enjot the time youspend metal detecting.