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SovereignXS came today looks beautiful with box and manuals

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dfg4240

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Looks unused or slightly used?
Tried the DTI III and numbers were allover the place with a quarter under the coil so I changed the 9V and everything was great-niece and stable.
Wish me luck on this. I am really going to give here a try.
I boxed up my MXT and Nokta for relic. and This will be my only detector for awhile.
I bought a finds pouch and a side mount bag from mine lab.
I don't know why the pics aren't coming out they under the size limit.
David
 
Hi: Did you calibrate the meter with a coin before trying it ????

If I remember correctly that highly desirable coil is not water proof.. It had issues around the wire connector.
I'm sure someone will confirm or point out I'm wrong if that is the case..
 
Good to hear it was in the shape is was advertised at as it does look great. On the meter it has to be calibrated with a quarter or even a dime to 180 when swinging the coil over the coin and trying to get the highest reading of 180. With the Sovereigns the numbers can change while swinging to coil over it along with the tones as it sees everything, so what you have to do with the Sovereign is swinging over just the signal trying to get the highest reading. The good copper pennies, dime and quarters and the halves will read 180 , the zinc pennies, the older wheat back in the early year and the IH pennies read 176-177 for me and the tones may sound the same, but with the 180 meter you can tell the difference. There is what we call the Sovereign wiggle which is just going over only the signal back and forth, so it may only look like a wiggle of the coil as you are not moving it more than a half inch or inch. This is where you can bring up those deeper signals by building up the strength of the signal. Go slow while looking for the signal and when you get one of the weaker signals you do the Sovereign wiggle , you got to get that signal to repeat and try to keep the meter numbers getting to 180.
As I said before it takes time and using the Sovereign to get comfortable with the Sovereign, but when you do you will be impressed with what this detector can do and how easy it is to use, basically a turn on and go detector with changing the sweep speed for different conditions.


Rick
 
Dropped a quarter under the coil and turned the knob until it read 180.
Works great. there is a button underneath that seems to do nothing and looks like it could be an n-off device.
 
Thanks for the info Rick.
I don't know what good it will do but I bought a book and CD called learning the tones for mine lab sovereign GT.
I imagine the tones are the same?
anyway I calibrated the DTI III in the house and took it out for 5 min.
A signal came up 177 and when I dug it up it was a Key like aluminum key.
anyway the numbers were becoming erratic and I went inside and set it on the table/pillow.
Waved a quater in front of it and it read 180 steady.
Turned the light on over it and it went all over the place so that meant outside it was picking up EMI.
I am excited about this detector. More so than the others.
David
 
If you are talking on the push button on the bottom of the meter, this is the button that turns on the back light on the meter. The Sovereign has to be on for it to work, then press the button and the light comes on for maybe 60 second then will go off and you have to push it again to turn it on for another 60 seconds. The 9 volt battery in the meter is for the back light, the Sovereign and the meter number are run my the battery in the detector.
The meter was advertised as a DTI 2, but it is the DTI 3 which was the only one with the back light and had a better mounting for the meter. To me this meter was the best meter that was built for the Sovereigns but some will differ.

One more thing being you are new to the Sovereign is run the sensitivity at auto (counter clockwise until it clicks) as it will help you learn the Sovereign, after you know it well than manual sensitivity will really do well for you.


Rick
 
Even got the box with it. What a great find. Yeah, I'm still a little jealous. :detecting:
 
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