GoldChaser
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Thanks for setting up this forum! I posted these questions in another forum, but now have more clarifications and they now belong in this new forum.
Regarding the discrimination on the Infinium, what exactly is the discrimination knob doing? Is it a pulse delay? So since it is gold that I am looking for, it seems that I would want to keep discrimination (pulse delay) as low (on the dial) as possible. A Garrett customer service person responded to me that their discrimination circuit helps eliminate foil, pull-tabs and nickel, which I don't understand how they do it without affecting gold sensitivity since I thought gold showed to have the lowest conductivity on a PI machine. Perhaps they were answering with regards to coin hunting??? Could someone please help me understand exactly, technically, what the discrimination dial is doing?
Regarding the frequency adjust, here is what a Garrett customer service person reported: "The Infinium is a pulse detector often called multi-frequency. The transmit bandwidth of the Infinium unit is 500HZ to 150 kHZ. The Infinium has 32 channels and each channel has its own set of 96 frequencies that move inside the transmit bandwidth. " Regarding the frequency adjustment - while the actually frequencies cannot be adjusted, the reason that I am interested is that I want my machine to go deep for gold, which I understand is usually attained via lower frequencies. So I want to understand how the dial works and if adjusting the frequency via the dial would raise frequencies and thus reduce my capability to find deep gold. Does anyone know if/how changing the frequency setting will affect the search for gold?
Thank you!
Regarding the discrimination on the Infinium, what exactly is the discrimination knob doing? Is it a pulse delay? So since it is gold that I am looking for, it seems that I would want to keep discrimination (pulse delay) as low (on the dial) as possible. A Garrett customer service person responded to me that their discrimination circuit helps eliminate foil, pull-tabs and nickel, which I don't understand how they do it without affecting gold sensitivity since I thought gold showed to have the lowest conductivity on a PI machine. Perhaps they were answering with regards to coin hunting??? Could someone please help me understand exactly, technically, what the discrimination dial is doing?
Regarding the frequency adjust, here is what a Garrett customer service person reported: "The Infinium is a pulse detector often called multi-frequency. The transmit bandwidth of the Infinium unit is 500HZ to 150 kHZ. The Infinium has 32 channels and each channel has its own set of 96 frequencies that move inside the transmit bandwidth. " Regarding the frequency adjustment - while the actually frequencies cannot be adjusted, the reason that I am interested is that I want my machine to go deep for gold, which I understand is usually attained via lower frequencies. So I want to understand how the dial works and if adjusting the frequency via the dial would raise frequencies and thus reduce my capability to find deep gold. Does anyone know if/how changing the frequency setting will affect the search for gold?
Thank you!