How many have done a Recovery test?

[LabradorBob]

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Where you place a coin say on a board and a nail to the right.
Then go over it with your detector coil from right to left to see how slow you have to
sweep,or how far you have to move the nail right before it will recover from the nail
and pick up the coin.

 

[NebTrac]

When I first could dig with the E-Trac, I opend a plug and put a coin in the bottom @ 6", then stuck a nail in the sidewall (horizontally) and replaced the plug. Then I circled while swinging. I have to laugh, because its been long enough and I was very new that I can't for the life of me remember the results.

One thing I do know Harold is in my coin garden, running Auto +3 on a 8" coin if I swing too slow, it will not sound off. Pick up a little speed and I can get it coming through loud and clear. Now in Manual sensitivity, it will pick it up with a slow to very slow swing speed. Just my observation and opinion at this time. Its fun trying different things out and learning.

NebTrac

 

[UtahRich]

As with others, I have dug up many coins that had nails or other trash laying on them or within inches. I used to worry about this kind of stuff but realized that my field results and "Lab Results" differ, for whatever reason. I quit worrying about it and just decided to go hunting. As Nebtrac mentioned above, it helps when you get any unusual signal to experiment with different sweep speeds as well as sweep directions and see if you can weasel out a good signal in with the junk.

If you have the time and want to do a little experimenting, try changing some settings, like FAST (on/off) and DEEP (on/off) and Audio Response (normal, long, hold . . ) and so on and see how it affects the audio signal and the display. You might find some new favorite settings.

Best of luck out there everybody.

Rich (Utah)