Went to 4 different sites with not any luck. I went back to my best spot and wasnt able to pick up anything deep. I made a test garden and buried a dime 6 inches down at first when i sweep the coil i had no signal then after sweeping it a few minutes i finaly was getting a broken signal but not really being able to lock on the target. Thinking i might have a problem. I was thinking about sending it back to kellyco to have it checked. Any ideas what could be wrong?
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Problems with Quartto?
- Thread starter buster12
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I have a coin garden that is about 5 months old. The first garden I did I thought had no iorn but it did. Consequently I could not pick up the 6" silver dime in that one. The next one I made I did better. I have coins at 4", 6", 7" and 10". I have to jack the Sensitivity up to 18 or 19 to get the 6" silver dime - even then it is one of those "iffy" signals. I do get the flash of a 37 or 38 but it is pretty broken up with some negative #'s in there(all metal mode). The 6" penny and 6" indian head come in better but still not a solid lock. I would suggest going to a local elementary school and dig the clad. Some of the schools around us have very little iorn or trash and the clad from the 70's and 80's is a good 4-6 inches deep.
If you are hunting in Jewelry mode then adjust your threshold so that you can hear when the machine nulls out. If the machine is nulling out a lot you have to either slow your sweep or adjust down the sensitivity(or both).
Good luck
Mirage
If you are hunting in Jewelry mode then adjust your threshold so that you can hear when the machine nulls out. If the machine is nulling out a lot you have to either slow your sweep or adjust down the sensitivity(or both).
Good luck
Mirage
Hi thanks for the help. I usually run it in coin/jewery sens. 18. I do pretty good in this mode and found most of my silver that way. Most of the silver i found was pretty deep barely reading on the bar. with a fairly good signal. I was wandering if i might have done something to the coil wire at the base of coil. The place i found all my silver, has alot of small low bush kinda thick and would catch the wire at the base. About a month later i noticed it acting kinda funny. making alot of eratic sigals i pointed the coil straight up into the air away from ground and it was still making different tone noises like i was over something i tried noise cancel it helped alittle. Just would hate to send it in for repair cause i wouldnt have it for a couple weeks. But i dont want to waste my time if its not working right. Buster12
I did the same thing a couple days ago. I noticed about the same results. Tried different modes, All Metal and Coin/jewelry and noticed only a little improvement in All metal. Forget a dime at 8" no way. I am in Ct. and there is iron in my soil. I did have a penny buried at 7" in my old test spot with mainly topsoil in it, and it picked it up at 7" but did have a little double signal in C/Jewelry mode. I was using the Platypus coil in all the testing. I did find a piece of 3/4"x 1/4" aluminum ring and got a reading of 37 with it at 7" in the iron type ground. It varied in tone and numbers though, and was a bit hard to lock on. I have a nickel at 7" and I could just barely read it and if I didn't know it was there, I surely would miss it. I was using the external speaker as it was pretty quiet outside. I tried changing the sensitivity from Auto to upper numbers, but found the sensitivity set to above 16 was giving way to many eratic signals. It seemed to work best in Auto and I was using it in low trash, set to F mode. This was in the C/J mode. It was close to the same when sensitivity was at 12. I am going to put on the Sunray 12" coil and give it another shot.
Ok just did it with Sunray 12". In All Metal with Sensitivity at 12 set to F mode, low trash, I could read all the items fairly easily. Numbers did jump around a bit though, except on the 6" penny, they were pretty stable. Going up beyond 15 and including Auto sens., it lost a couple of the items, (and was about the same as the Platypus in reading depth when in auto sens). Went to C/J mode with other settings the same and lost the 8" dime and real thin and weak on 7" nickel where I would likely miss it in normal hunting. Found if you go too slow you get nothing half the time and it will ignore most items below 6", except some after a small but quick reading, but when you return, it is gone.. I find that quite annoying and if you wanted to hunt pretty slow, it would really hurt performance. I know this is normal, but it wasn't as bad on most other detectors I have used. I also find it pretty sad that you have to hunt in All Metal to get decent depth. You buy a fancy machine with all these great features and have to go to the old dig everything mode to get real performance. I almost feel I might as well just use a pulse detector, except the sounds are too closely defined unless you buy the newest ones out. Now this is all in dirt digging. I hope to find better results when I get to the beach soon.
Ok just did it with Sunray 12". In All Metal with Sensitivity at 12 set to F mode, low trash, I could read all the items fairly easily. Numbers did jump around a bit though, except on the 6" penny, they were pretty stable. Going up beyond 15 and including Auto sens., it lost a couple of the items, (and was about the same as the Platypus in reading depth when in auto sens). Went to C/J mode with other settings the same and lost the 8" dime and real thin and weak on 7" nickel where I would likely miss it in normal hunting. Found if you go too slow you get nothing half the time and it will ignore most items below 6", except some after a small but quick reading, but when you return, it is gone.. I find that quite annoying and if you wanted to hunt pretty slow, it would really hurt performance. I know this is normal, but it wasn't as bad on most other detectors I have used. I also find it pretty sad that you have to hunt in All Metal to get decent depth. You buy a fancy machine with all these great features and have to go to the old dig everything mode to get real performance. I almost feel I might as well just use a pulse detector, except the sounds are too closely defined unless you buy the newest ones out. Now this is all in dirt digging. I hope to find better results when I get to the beach soon.
Angela (Australia)
New member
Hello Buster, I've also experienced this 'problem' you mentioned. Here are a few things to consider that may help you.
When you get a signal that disappears, slow right down your coil sweep, so that you're over where you believe the target to be. Then sweep your coil VERY slowly, like you're trying to pick something up with a magnet. Approach the area from different angles. Buy removing a layer of soil from the general area, you should get the signal back. Make absolutely sure you noise canel prior to doing these steps, to ensure smooth running of the detector for the ground you're in. If in trashy ground, use High trash setting. When you use coin/jewelry mode, your 'recovery' speed from one target to another is slower too. Lifting the coil will help. But if you try it in All Metal mode, the recovery picks up, and if you don't mind the barrage of sounds, you should pick up your targets better. But, I've always found that slowing the coil right down and concentrating on the spot you believe the target to be, should do it. Be persistant and don't give up. Also bear in mind, if you knock your coil against a branch or twig on the ground, it can give you a false reading. Raking the ground of foliage also helps the detector to pick things up better. And I wouldn't be afraid to drop your sensitivity down to about 12 or 14, because if you have it too high, the detector is trying to read too much at once, and can't cope with it. By lowering the sensitivity prevents this, and don't be mistaken that you'll lose depth. I've pulled out coins at 8 inches quite comfortably, running a sensitivity of 12.
Angela
When you get a signal that disappears, slow right down your coil sweep, so that you're over where you believe the target to be. Then sweep your coil VERY slowly, like you're trying to pick something up with a magnet. Approach the area from different angles. Buy removing a layer of soil from the general area, you should get the signal back. Make absolutely sure you noise canel prior to doing these steps, to ensure smooth running of the detector for the ground you're in. If in trashy ground, use High trash setting. When you use coin/jewelry mode, your 'recovery' speed from one target to another is slower too. Lifting the coil will help. But if you try it in All Metal mode, the recovery picks up, and if you don't mind the barrage of sounds, you should pick up your targets better. But, I've always found that slowing the coil right down and concentrating on the spot you believe the target to be, should do it. Be persistant and don't give up. Also bear in mind, if you knock your coil against a branch or twig on the ground, it can give you a false reading. Raking the ground of foliage also helps the detector to pick things up better. And I wouldn't be afraid to drop your sensitivity down to about 12 or 14, because if you have it too high, the detector is trying to read too much at once, and can't cope with it. By lowering the sensitivity prevents this, and don't be mistaken that you'll lose depth. I've pulled out coins at 8 inches quite comfortably, running a sensitivity of 12.
Angela
I have found that the Quattro works the best in the dry, damp and wet sand here in Ct. The best digging time in our soil is when it is wet. Sometimes you will get false reading with rotted vegetation. The best method with the Quattro is "Low and Slow" because your recovery time is slower than most machines. I also have the SunRay proble inline on my machine and it does help with finding relics especially in clumpy clay. By the way.......where are you located?
Angela (Australia)
New member
Yes, I've found that too Bobbie, that wet and damp ground works best for me, or very dry conitions. But as the ground is very compact here, wet ground is best. I seem to have better target recovery.