On the sov Gt. When I first bought it it was on the money on a minelab meter for both silver coins and nickels. If it went over a coin and hit 180 it was usually a dime or quater, 99% of the time. When it hit 146 it was a good solid hit it was nearly always a nickel..
Now the thing has some age and we are hunting a little out of the learn set up. Using sens at about 10 oclock and not much else different to the original set up. The first thing I noticed is setting the meter to calibrate it if you go over in auto sens it is easy to set it holds and c hanges the numbers when you run over a quater it says like 179 you gently turn to 180 and your done. Now on the manual sens you get a 179 and man it moves all ovr the place you have to change it a bit and try it and you could spend all day. I turn back to auto to set it. Also I notice hunting on 146 is not a charm number any more sometimes it is a nickel but they usually hit around 148 or 149 now instead of 146 which are usually a pull tab.
Is there some reason for the big differences in operation between sens on auto and manual??????
One other thing pennies now hit the 180 number a lot instead of staying down in the 176 @ area where they used to. Good copper pennies used to be the only ones to get up around 178 or 9 but now the zinks do to a lot.
Is manual really better or what. I do notice a LOT ! of depth difference in the manual over the auto. but accuracy seems much better in auto.?
Thanks for any input.
Grumpy
Now the thing has some age and we are hunting a little out of the learn set up. Using sens at about 10 oclock and not much else different to the original set up. The first thing I noticed is setting the meter to calibrate it if you go over in auto sens it is easy to set it holds and c hanges the numbers when you run over a quater it says like 179 you gently turn to 180 and your done. Now on the manual sens you get a 179 and man it moves all ovr the place you have to change it a bit and try it and you could spend all day. I turn back to auto to set it. Also I notice hunting on 146 is not a charm number any more sometimes it is a nickel but they usually hit around 148 or 149 now instead of 146 which are usually a pull tab.
Is there some reason for the big differences in operation between sens on auto and manual??????
One other thing pennies now hit the 180 number a lot instead of staying down in the 176 @ area where they used to. Good copper pennies used to be the only ones to get up around 178 or 9 but now the zinks do to a lot.
Is manual really better or what. I do notice a LOT ! of depth difference in the manual over the auto. but accuracy seems much better in auto.?
Thanks for any input.
Grumpy
The probe on the machine would work most of the time but would goof up once in a while but dont think its the probe. The main coil would not work right no matter which route you ran it to the brain and so there is a problem. 