Hello I'm fairly new to metal detecting and I'm having trouble with my fisher f5. I have done some experiments with a buried silver quarter and could not get a signal on it when it was 6 inches deep. I don't quite understand how the ground balance works and I'm thinking that might be the problem but I'm not quite sure. I know the f5 is a really good detector and I live in iowa so the ground isn't highly mineralized. Please help!
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- Thread starter Jwesty72
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Mike Hillis
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Hello Jwesty72
Your detector sounds find to me. Freshly buried coins do not read well in the dirt. If you research 'test beds' and 'test gardens' you will find out that test beds have to be in place for several years before you get good detection depths like you would experience in real life in undisturbed ground. So don't fret that.
As long as your detector is air testing properly and you can cancel out the ground minerals your detector is working fine. To confirm your ground balance is working properly
1. Ground balance
2. Lift coil waist high
3. Activate your pinpoint
4. Lower coil to the ground. The pinpoint should not make any audio noise. If you get a audio response, check and make sure the ground doesn't have any metal present and gb and confirm over the same piece of ground. If you do get a response, you are not perfectly balanced. Try again. There are places where you will have to manually ground balance (not ground grab) to get spot on, but most times the Ground Grab works fine.
HH
Mike
Your detector sounds find to me. Freshly buried coins do not read well in the dirt. If you research 'test beds' and 'test gardens' you will find out that test beds have to be in place for several years before you get good detection depths like you would experience in real life in undisturbed ground. So don't fret that.
As long as your detector is air testing properly and you can cancel out the ground minerals your detector is working fine. To confirm your ground balance is working properly
1. Ground balance
2. Lift coil waist high
3. Activate your pinpoint
4. Lower coil to the ground. The pinpoint should not make any audio noise. If you get a audio response, check and make sure the ground doesn't have any metal present and gb and confirm over the same piece of ground. If you do get a response, you are not perfectly balanced. Try again. There are places where you will have to manually ground balance (not ground grab) to get spot on, but most times the Ground Grab works fine.
HH
Mike
