Sensitivity for the Ace 250

[pedrod]

Regarding sensitivity,

Should I just crank it up to maximum all the time? Does sensitivity coincide with depth?

I need some advice

 

[Uncle Willy]

Run it at four bars to start. If your soil is good you may be able to crank it a little higher. You won't lose any depth running at four bars. Sensitivity is not depth as many falsely believe. Turning the sensitivity up doesnot drive the signal deeper into the ground - it just makes the coil more sensitive to the targets you hope to find - but it also makes it more sensitive to all the junk and mineralization in the ground causing the detector to chatter and become unstable resulting in missing many targets.

Just run it at 4-5 bars until you fully familiarize yourself with the 250 and you'll be a very happy feller.

Bill

 

[treasurefiend]

When you go to a site, turn your sen. all the way up. Then swing your coil, if it goes crazy, then turn it down. Do this again and again. Some of my sites, I can run at full sen., but at others I can o nly run at 2 bars. I just depends on the site. The only way to tell is to chek it out. Good luck, and happy hunting!!!

 

[david764]

I use the sensitivty at the factory set level. At Virginia Beach i cut it back to four bars because for some reason in the dry sand i was missing ground level targets because it was canceling out the target when i passed the coil over it. I know everbody want to run more sensitivity because they think they can find more but normally you find less. If you want to test how low you can really go the next time you go detecting the first target you find at the level of sensitivity you are running try lowering the sensitivity untill you no longer can pick the target up most of the time that is about 2 bars so then ask yourself do i need to go as high as it will go and the answer is no i don't have to run it that high because you will be missing close targets at ground level.

David

 

[Goes4ever]

I normally run it at 7 bars, if I have trouble I back it down to 6. Sometimes I get an iffy signal then crank up the sensitivity and re-check the target, and now it becomes a stronger signal.