Swing Speed ??

[jbow]

OK, now I am a little confused. I have alway's heard that you have to swing an Explorer slowly. I've alway's heard the same thing about the Sovereign.

Then I read here: http://www.treasuregizmo.com/swingspeed.htm that you sholud swing briskly but walk slowly and overlap and you will get greater depth by swinging faster. Fisher say's that you should swing the F75 faster for depth and better ID but then that is a different machine but the basic technology is the same and a DD coil is a DD coil.

Here is a little from the link I posted, you can read the rest by going there:

You will hear a lot of experienced Explorer users saying, "slow down" but what does this mean really? The Explorer is a motion detector e.g. the coil has to be in motion to detect a target. The faster you swing the deeper the machine goes, toss some test coins on the ground and test the depth you get swinging very slow versus very fast and somewhere in-between and you will see what I mean.

When people say slow down they are talking about forward motion of your feet not swing speed. I recommend that you swing at a brisk pace but walk very slow. >>>written by Charles (upstate NY)<<<<

What do you think?

Julien

 

[Steve(MS)]

I think it is according to how much trash is in the area but using audio 1 (long audio) I can sweep as fast as I like or very slow, long audio allows for either without much depth loss. Sometimes on the deeper signals it is best to narrow the sweep to further examine the signal. Some using normal audio could give their opinion here on sweep speed.

 

[jbow]

n/t

 

[Rick(ND)]

I know for a fact that if the area has trash and good targets you have to go real slow to get the good target, if not you will not get the good targets. Also as far as depth going slow to get the hint of the signal, then doing the Sovereign wiggle over only just that target will increase that signal. If you were going at any speed at all the Sovereign would not have seen the signal at all. I just took my Sovereign over a very well worked area this past week that has been hit with my Sovereign before and several Explorers too and I moved very very slow listening to the first hit of a positive signal, then worked it and found many target I had missed before with some very small and quite deep.
Back a few years ago I detected a very well worked very old park and wasn't finding anything great until I went very very slow and listening very close and picked out many great coins with some so deep my hunting Buddie with his Sovereign couldn't believe as he wasn't finding anything. I got one of the signals again and he said he got no signal and just a null, so I said go very slow over it and now he could hear it and as soon as he speed-ed up the swing a little it was just a null again.
Now with the Explorer I have seen the same thing, just ask James ND that post on the Explorer forum how slow he has to go to get some of these deep coins he get and some just give a slight squeak and if he had been swinging faster they would never been heard. Just like the Sovereign you go slow to get the signal, but once you get it you can make the signal better by doing the faster wiggle across it we have seen. I would say if the area don't have much iron or trash in it that a faster sweep with audio 1 would work OK or with the SE the pitch hold seems to work good.
That has been my experiences with the Sovereign and the Explorer and just love to follow those that swing fast as they get the new stuff and the trash while I can get the older and deeper coins. If you are in a new area and coins are not deep than it wont make a lot of difference, but if you are working well worked area where coins can be deep or next to trash you have to go slow to get the first hint of a good signal then work just that signal to try to make it better.

 

[jbow]

n/t