Possible problem with my C$

[Hawkeye Jim]

Was coinshooting at an elementary school last night and when i was by the wood chips around the playground equipment, I decided to toggle into "all metal". The all metal seemed very broken up with the audible sound not clear at all. When I did hit a good target in all metal, the response from all metal was not clear, still sort of broken up. I have also noticed this same broken up response when using pinpoint. Anybody have any ideas - do you think I have something amiss in the "All Metal". Thanks - Hawkeye Jim.

 

[wcowboy]

Jim....that seems to be normal for the C$. When I first got my C$ I noticed the same thing and thought something was wrong. I was advised on this forum that it was OK, and was just the nature of this detector. HH....Ernie

 

[mtdoramike]

n/t

 

[Bill Ladd]

It really is the nature of the beast & sorta a strange quirk on the C$ & a big reason most coinshooter-types stick with disc mode. The C$ is still plenty powerful on disc mode, but all-metal gets alotta props in relic hunting circles for amazing depth (if you can learn to tolerate all the noise). Switching to all metal on the C$ reminds me of switching on a completely different detector. Like it morphs into a one tone 1266x or something
I have used all metal with success at Civil War & early colonial sites where items are super deep. John-KY uses all metal for his Civil War goodies. But, I only use it when really needed since the disc mode is so strong. But, in short, your C$ is fine & for the type of huntin' you do disc mode will be the way to go .....HH, Bill

 

[Mike Hillis]

Some places my pinpoint is nice and strong, but at other places it was broken. Since the broken pinpoint was reading from the low twentys and down to around 09, I figured it was either very deep or very small stuff. What was you numerical pinpoint reading?

I don't really know how electrical interference affects the all metal mode.

I do think the all metal mode hunting sound is kinda cool. Its got that electrical hum at the edges that makes me think of the light sabres in Star Wars. So I'm not swinging a coil, I'm swinging a Light Sabre masquerading as a metal detector


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[Hawkeye Jim]

THANKS EVERYONE!!! The only reason I worried something was wrong with the all metal, when I first got it this spring, I don't remember it acting or sounding this way. Like Bill stated, 99.9% of the time I always use DISC, so maybe it just struck me as acting funny last night when I toggled over to all metal. HH - Hawkeye Jim.

 

[Tony (NC)]

fingernails on a chalk board! I can only use all metal in short "bursts". The Excel is much more "pleasant to the ear" IMO.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Jim,

that horrible sound you hear is normal. It's just plain awful isn't it? Took me about a year to get used to it since
I hunt All Metal almost all the time. I only use DISC in dense trash... like a vacant lot.

That said the All Metal mode is the only accurate mode and it goes an inch or two deeper
than the DISC mode. You see if you are off center in DISC mode you will never hear
a deep signal at all. And if you are off center on a piece of iron you'll often get a false
coin tone in DISC mode. In All Metal mode you would have seen the false coin numbers
and then zeroed in on your target and realized it was iron from the numbers.

Coin hunters can skip the All Metal mode unless they are in a low signal area or want to go deep.

hh

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[Hawkeye Jim]

Hey John - always interested in hearing different tpyes of stratagies - Thanks & HH - Hawkeye Jim.