Jim Morrison
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Interference problems?
- Thread starter Jim Morrison
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Old California
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A T-2 friend invited me to hunt one of his hunting grounds, I noticed as I got closer to electrical wires my T-2 had some interference and after setting the freq at 6 and reducing the sens it did settle down but a little interference was still there. This was in town but out in the county I've never had a problem or in any other city/town either.
Still managed to get an 1914D barber dime, I have the upgraded version and this was the first time I noticed it with this detector and I'm sure I'll have this interference again in the future depending on the area. Nothing to be alarmed but it may happen depending on location, The positives far out weight an occasion interference.
HH, Paul (Ca)
Still managed to get an 1914D barber dime, I have the upgraded version and this was the first time I noticed it with this detector and I'm sure I'll have this interference again in the future depending on the area. Nothing to be alarmed but it may happen depending on location, The positives far out weight an occasion interference.
HH, Paul (Ca)
I have my T2 since about 1 month.
First time i turned it on at home, it went nuts, probably due to a PC station and (I guess) a wireless connection. It makes sense.
Then i went out, and first hunt was terrific. I hunted on a field that i exploited well before and that i considered dry. Instead, I still managed to find buttons, small coins and other little things that probably weren't detected by my Fisher 1236x2 or by a Xterra 50 of my friend.
Second hunt was not happy. It was foggy and rainy (light and thick rain)and when i turned on my T2 on a field, it went nuts. Still in the air, like it was catching some interferences, not on the ground. I tried to switch frequency, my T2 stayed silent for a couple of seconds and then again, it was like possessed. Since nearby there is a big Antenna and also an electric powerline, i thought that they could be the cause and i decided to change area. I went to another place, open field, nothing around and...same odd behaviour. Finally i gave up. I tried to figure out which could have been the reasons without a reasonable answer. Then, I went hunting again,with a clear and sunny day.I tried some other fields (in one case I was swinging just down an electric pole without problem), and my T2 proved to be a killer for small objects (coins,small buttons,etc) and eventually i returned to the 2nd place i described above, just for testing. I turned it on and...he worked well, NO INTERFERENCES at all.
Till now, I have no answer to what happened,the only differente between the 2 situations was the weather. Could it be?
greetings from europe
First time i turned it on at home, it went nuts, probably due to a PC station and (I guess) a wireless connection. It makes sense.
Then i went out, and first hunt was terrific. I hunted on a field that i exploited well before and that i considered dry. Instead, I still managed to find buttons, small coins and other little things that probably weren't detected by my Fisher 1236x2 or by a Xterra 50 of my friend.
Second hunt was not happy. It was foggy and rainy (light and thick rain)and when i turned on my T2 on a field, it went nuts. Still in the air, like it was catching some interferences, not on the ground. I tried to switch frequency, my T2 stayed silent for a couple of seconds and then again, it was like possessed. Since nearby there is a big Antenna and also an electric powerline, i thought that they could be the cause and i decided to change area. I went to another place, open field, nothing around and...same odd behaviour. Finally i gave up. I tried to figure out which could have been the reasons without a reasonable answer. Then, I went hunting again,with a clear and sunny day.I tried some other fields (in one case I was swinging just down an electric pole without problem), and my T2 proved to be a killer for small objects (coins,small buttons,etc) and eventually i returned to the 2nd place i described above, just for testing. I turned it on and...he worked well, NO INTERFERENCES at all.
Till now, I have no answer to what happened,the only differente between the 2 situations was the weather. Could it be?
greetings from europe
I am looking to buy a T2.
I have two minor thoughts about that future investment, one beeing the small coil availability on the T2. I will not buy any new detector anymore unless a small coil are available. Burned myself on the ID excel and the Terra 70. If it wasnt for sunray I would not have used an explorer either.
Second beeing the R-6 upgrade. Less interference is good but has the detector in any way become less sensitive too. As i have learned much of the interference issues is due to operators not fully understanding the detectors discrimination control that can be turned down to the point where it senses its own thoughts,, LOL.
Beeing from europe and with low conductive coins as the main target I would be very glad if someone with knowledge more then rumors could enlighten me on these two minor questions. The T2 looks promising in UK, seems like all that try it and has the possibility to post on forums love this detector despite the interference issue.
Regards.
bjorn
I have two minor thoughts about that future investment, one beeing the small coil availability on the T2. I will not buy any new detector anymore unless a small coil are available. Burned myself on the ID excel and the Terra 70. If it wasnt for sunray I would not have used an explorer either.
Second beeing the R-6 upgrade. Less interference is good but has the detector in any way become less sensitive too. As i have learned much of the interference issues is due to operators not fully understanding the detectors discrimination control that can be turned down to the point where it senses its own thoughts,, LOL.
Beeing from europe and with low conductive coins as the main target I would be very glad if someone with knowledge more then rumors could enlighten me on these two minor questions. The T2 looks promising in UK, seems like all that try it and has the possibility to post on forums love this detector despite the interference issue.
Regards.
bjorn
personally i think the problems if there are any are all in the minds of people that either have not got one or are responding to rumors from someone else ,i have had a T2 for a couple of months now and having over the years used most top of the range detectors in the uk i can state with a fair degree of accuracy that this one will blow you away .do not worry about other coils it doesn't need them the standard coil will find the tiniest of items even in heavy iron areas .its light ,its deep (i would rate it like a explorer on steroids ) ,its accurate ,your finds rate will soar with it .well built, easy to use .
yes you will get some interference if close to other detectors but most of them do that anyway , just move further away or change frequency (takes seconds ) .the acid test for any machine is will it find the good stuff ,in the first two weeks i had hammered coins including a cut quarter ,roman fibulae,medieval silver ring ,gold ring and tons of ordinary finds i,m convinced and so are a lot of other users .
the T2 does what a lot of others don't it finds the items right across the desirable range yes you will get some interference ,yes you will dig some iron ,yes you will dig some coke but the overall finds will more than compensate for this .
the rest my friend is up to you
yes you will get some interference if close to other detectors but most of them do that anyway , just move further away or change frequency (takes seconds ) .the acid test for any machine is will it find the good stuff ,in the first two weeks i had hammered coins including a cut quarter ,roman fibulae,medieval silver ring ,gold ring and tons of ordinary finds i,m convinced and so are a lot of other users .
the T2 does what a lot of others don't it finds the items right across the desirable range yes you will get some interference ,yes you will dig some iron ,yes you will dig some coke but the overall finds will more than compensate for this .
the rest my friend is up to you
Low-Boy/LCPM
Active member
A small coil may be very cool for the places that are so filled with trash that you just want to make sure you didn't miss anything. But the standard coil works like no other coil out there. With out that coil I think the T2 would not be such a big deal it is the coil on this machine that makes it what it is.
On the upgrades they gave you a better way of hunting in areas that are filled with rusty caps from bottles. The interference is not a problem and if it is I switch to another machine but that has not happened yet.
As for iron, when I was relic hunting I would get overload tones and dig some nice iron targets. Old locks and horse shoes and things like that. Sometimes nails would hit high but not often.
The upgrade didn't do anything to change the machine from being hot on tiny targets or effect the unmasking. This is a hot fast machine and not for the faint at heart. Those that learn it will be amazed that Dave got a machine to do what he wanted it to do. Not make a commercial detector that is perfect for everything but a raw fast see through iron machine. We are not use to these types of machines so it is different. More like an MXT but a whole lot better. I think White's had more control on the MXT and the T2 as given to Dave to do what he wanted to do.
I don't think the new Fisher will beat this machine I think the new fisher will be for those that think the T2 is too much of a relic machine and want something a little more tame. But I love Fisher so what ever they do the T2 will always be one of the top five new detectors on the market in fact I would say it is #1 right now and catching on in the UK so lots of growth for the company.
On the upgrades they gave you a better way of hunting in areas that are filled with rusty caps from bottles. The interference is not a problem and if it is I switch to another machine but that has not happened yet.
As for iron, when I was relic hunting I would get overload tones and dig some nice iron targets. Old locks and horse shoes and things like that. Sometimes nails would hit high but not often.
The upgrade didn't do anything to change the machine from being hot on tiny targets or effect the unmasking. This is a hot fast machine and not for the faint at heart. Those that learn it will be amazed that Dave got a machine to do what he wanted it to do. Not make a commercial detector that is perfect for everything but a raw fast see through iron machine. We are not use to these types of machines so it is different. More like an MXT but a whole lot better. I think White's had more control on the MXT and the T2 as given to Dave to do what he wanted to do.
I don't think the new Fisher will beat this machine I think the new fisher will be for those that think the T2 is too much of a relic machine and want something a little more tame. But I love Fisher so what ever they do the T2 will always be one of the top five new detectors on the market in fact I would say it is #1 right now and catching on in the UK so lots of growth for the company.
Iron is to me no problem with any detector, just now i am using a Tejon to clean my out what my explorer XS missed. The coins or targets I am after is so close to iron or in iron ID that I am much more worried about sensitivity.
The manual gb on the tejon picks some targets an auto gb machine misses and it finds much more iron.By the way the explorer has no auto gb function, it just cancels like any other preset detector but got plenty more freqs to push and choose from.So in bad shit dirt with Iron and hammered coins a tejon suits me better.
As i said I used an explorer, now I have learned what it missed ( not to bash the machine,it certainly found some deeeeeep clean silver to me)and i still use it where i know its a killer.
If the T2 is as they speak, you will certainly find lots of iron and that is very good, in fact very very good. It will also find the gold ring at 0.0001 above iron at the conduct scale.
The manual gb on the tejon picks some targets an auto gb machine misses and it finds much more iron.By the way the explorer has no auto gb function, it just cancels like any other preset detector but got plenty more freqs to push and choose from.So in bad shit dirt with Iron and hammered coins a tejon suits me better.
As i said I used an explorer, now I have learned what it missed ( not to bash the machine,it certainly found some deeeeeep clean silver to me)and i still use it where i know its a killer.
If the T2 is as they speak, you will certainly find lots of iron and that is very good, in fact very very good. It will also find the gold ring at 0.0001 above iron at the conduct scale.
jeff@middlesex
New member
The only iron I dug was stupid iron. In other words the ones that I was to stupid to just ignore. machines always right. This is the first detector I have owned that does not get fooled by rusty iron washer off farm machinery.
yes you will dig iron with it in small quantitys ,in the u.k we seem mostly to stick at 10 on discrim this means the occassional bit of deep iron or large shallow iron ,but i'm talking 2-4 pieces a day on iron infested fields ,the other iron that will fool every machine ever made is large circular iron rings .yes you can probably turn up the disc and eliminate it all but you will lose thin small hammered coins and small gold rings and also lose depth
Even though I haven't used a Tejon, I have heard that it does very well in iron, somebody told me that turning the sensitivity way down on it is the best way to use it in iron. I am leaning more on the lines of something like the T2 however, thanks for the input,
Steve(MS)
Steve(MS)
not every one sticks to 10 discrim, I often use on some sites up to 35 discim, depending on site and conditions depth loss is minimal, settings above 10 will not lose you gold bands or thin hammered coins.If in doubt do a few tests youself and you will find the T2 will find hammered coins even with a setting off 40 -44 discrim .
