Mystery of Ferrous and Conduct

[Anonymous]

In my experience with using Conduct in My area that has deep iron and nails (eight inches or more) the Conduct is not the way to go because Conduct gives deep iron a higher tone and deep rotting nails will sound like deep coins and as you remove more dirt the high tone on deep iron will start to break up and will disappear. That is why when you have the iron object out of the ground it no longer sounds high. But if you are in an area that has shallow iron, Conduct is the way to hunt because it gives coins a sweet high tone and it will let you hear coins that are touching iron with no change to the high tone of the coin, where as in Ferrous the high tone of a coin when touching iron will change the tone lower. So one mode will get you deeper coins with less iron digging (ferrous), and the other will let you hear coins touching iron with no change to the high tone (conduct). I know that some of you have found deep coins in Conduct but how much iron did you put out of the same hole, in My soil there is to much iron in it and I will have to use Ferrous. This is the way I decided to answer the mystery of which to use, what do you guys think about it?

 

[Anonymous]

Art,
Let me preface this by saying I'm a newbie, but I've been digging a LOT this summer in a place riddled with deep, rusty iron targets (mainly pieces of wire and/or fasteners). I've been using both an Exp2 and a DFX. Let me tell you, I've been digging a LOT of very deep, rusty, iron "coins" there, but very few shallow, rusty iron "coins". In light of this fact, your conclusion makes sense to me.

 

[Anonymous]

The deeper the iron trash, ferrous works better and Conduct works better with shallow iron. This is why a good pair of headphones is need to hear the difference in each signal and good headphones don't have to be the expensive.