need help urgently!!!!!!!!!!

[littlenugget]

After 6 months without detecting i was invited to go prospecting to the gold fields tomorrow , i have the eliptical coil 18.75 khz , first of all ground balancing is the first step or last step?

and is it the same if i use relic mode on nuggets?

give me tips please y totally forgot

 

[TURNMASTER]

do a quick read of Diggers ebook

 

[Old Longhair]

ALWAYS Noise Cancel first! Then in AM or Prospect mode find clean ground and GB.
At that point you can switch to whatever hunting mode you desire.

Good luck tomorrow!

 

[TURNMASTER]

Most important thing

 

[littlenugget]

thanks for your help , but im looking for videos on you tube, and the only thing they say is to put it on prospecting mode then noice cancel then all metal then grand balance ant thai is it!!!!

what about sencitivity?


thanks

 

[greg755]

The first thing i would do is clear all the settings to factory presets there are two ways #1 clears the metal detectors settings and #2 clears the program settings.

#1 Hold down the Program button and then push the ON button once when the detector come on let go of the program button. You programs are now clear.
#2 Hold down the Prospecting/coin, mode button and push the ON button once when the detector comes on it will set the detector to factory presets. The modes are now clear.

The reason I say to do this is so that when you are in the prospector mode you will have the true factor default set up. If you are like me you have probably changed settings in this mode with out realizing it and the detector has saved these settings whether they are correct/good or not.

Now put on your gold coil. Do a noise cancel. Do a Ground balance. Choose prospecting mode. Start detecting.
Pay attention to the iron mask and the sensitivity, do not be in a hurry to change these settings change them gradually if the need arises.

 

[Old Longhair]

Sensitivity is site speciffic as well as mode and user preference determineable. Which is to say that each site has it's unique soil properties which will effectively limit sensitivity. At the same time, the mode selected along with swing speed and the user's tolerance for instability will be variable from one user to the next. If the site has a lot of iron or pockets of minerals not sought and you're in Prospect mode, you have the option of implimenting IronMask (which is user adjustable) to help ignore those item/areas, and/or you can reduce Sensitivity to maintain stability (variable depending on your tolerance for chatter), while swing speed will be most effective at a speed suitable for a given area based on the number of valid signals received. The same principals are used in Coin/Relic mode, only the option of utilizing Disc instead of IM apply.

Potentially your greatest depth will be had in Prospect mode, but the range of discrimination in IM is substancially narrower and you lose target ID.

 

[littlenugget]

well in a little disappointed zero nuggets, zero zero zero zero :clsoedeyes:

Don't know if a i made something wrong with my setting,

fFrst i was on prospecting mode, then a did a noise cancel, then i ground balance, then threshold , then volume then sensitivity, then auto tracking on were my settings in order?


thanks

 

[Old Longhair]

Unless soil conditions varied enough to warrant it, you might have done yourself a little a minor dis-service by using the Tracking, but it sounds to me as though you just weren't lucky enough to get your coil over any.

Did anyone else in your party find any?

 

[littlenugget]

Nop, Long hair, but what do you mean by you might have done yourself a little a minor dis-service by using the Tracking?

 

[greg755]

If I could find a nugget every time I went prospecting I would quit my job. Its not like coin shooting or relic hunting, those little buggers are few and far between. I have spent many a days (weeks) hearing noting but the hum of the threshold, it gets lonely out there, but stick with it, they will eventually show up.

 

[Old Longhair]

Unless the conditions required it, once GB was set you might have been better off running the GB manually. The Tracking feature constantly monitors ground mineralization and automatically compensates. Specifficly if looking for small gold, especially if it's more than a few inches deep, what you were looking for was ANY variation in tone. It's conceivable that the smallest bits could be "normalized" by the Tracking, due in part to their size, and in part by the combination of low conductive and magnetic properties. Mind you, this would only apply to very small bits & flakes. Larger nuggets and those closer to the coil would be less likely to be missed.