T2 Batteries and advice

[Mike T]

I just ordered a T2 today and can't wait for delivery. I just wondered from you guys who have some hours under your belt what do you use for batteries? alkaline or Nimh? and if you recharge which do you recommend as best for the T2?
I ordered with the raincovers but not the coil covers as I never use them, and I hear the T2 is extremley sensitive and don't want to chance getting soil inside the cover.
I realize the T2 is best at relics and I plan on hitting out of the way spots in Eastern Oregon maybe along the Oregon Trail. And could appreciate any tips for starting out with this fine detector
I'm retired and am putting together the lifestyle I"d dreamed about when younger. I finally decided on a full size truck with 4x4, reg cab longbed, with maybe an Alaskan Camper. I want to be able to travel some funky roads if need be and can't risk getting stuck. I thought about a Toyota or Nissan reg cab longbed small truck 4x4 but the campers are too small for extended camping. They would have been cheaper on gas but ..and the regular rec vehicles don't have 4x4, so I gotta hope the price of Diesel goes down
So I'm slowly getting it together and hope to go for 3 to 4 week spurts, I'll take pictures of anything interesting and post. Sorry for the long read I'm usually short but I'll fall back on a Batchelors Privilidge. Mike

 

[Sonny(IN)]

Some people say the T-2 is best at relic hunting. why does that seem to be the case with the T-2? Or is that even a proven fact. I only coin hunt and hope the F-75 is not mainly for RELIC hunting as I plan on getting one. Would someone comment on the T-2 being for relic hunting????thanks in advance

 

[KCK]

I use Better Power AA2700 Nickle Metal Hydride Batteries...Cheaper on EBAY

As for your long read.....Thanks I enjoyed it full of hope and expression for life. Each day life happens to us . We have no promise for tomorrow and it sounds like you plan on enjoying life. I think thats a good thing.

From my own experience at learning Top End detectors here's my advice.
#1) Read the manual
#2) Keep the manual with you for a while, while your detecting.
#3) Purchase Tom Dankowski's Metal detcting video available at:
http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/
#4) You'll be hearing a lot of signals with your T2.
a) believe them the detector is not lying to you.
b) dig everything for a while till you here what the detector is trying to tell you...It will come!
c) Turn your sensitivity down to 30 at first till you get used to all the signals. Check two or three targets depth even at a sensitivity set at 30.. you won't loss much depth, eventually take it up if you wish. But understand the difference by testing it for your self and to gain understanding.
d) And last but not least like I said before, dig it all for a while always rechecking your hole for more items, And remember what your detector said!

hope this helps

KCK

That's my humble opinion!

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

The T2 story could only be told by Bill Lad and Calif Paul I rode on their coat tails to learn and it was hard. The T2 is great in iron if you use the two tone you will hear a ton of targets as a low tone and you will hear a lot of targets as the high tone. You will get a number readout with the tone. Anything at forty or below will most likely be iron. So you will dig a ton of trash but mixed in are the good targets that most detectors had to pass on because most detectors are not fast enough to catch the good target mixed in with the iron.

If you know of a place that has a history and has been lived on or mined on that is where you just take your sweet time and let the trash tell you what was the history of area.

If you read Bill's finds he will go deep into the woods and find cellar holes and old foundations and dig the above forty numbers and he finds all kinds of great finds. The same goes for Paul! And for me and I have found some very old locks and keys and relic iron finds.

If you have not hunted with a detector like the T2 I would get it and give it a spin before you go out on a big adventure. There is a lot of info coming into your ears. I was burned out because I am not a relic hunter but have become one and live in an area that is the Gold Country of Calif. Not like a lot of machines on the market this baby runs hot but it will find the smallest targets and they can be deep also.

I would read the forum from the start so you will be = with all that got their machines from day one.

You may want to wait and see what the new fisher top of the line unit has to offer. It may be a lot easier to learn and not as hot as the T2.

Paul and Bill and so many other talanted guys on this forum have posted a lot of good reading on this forum. So take your time and read and ask questions along the way. I have five machines that I use but I am always pushing the envolope on the T2 to see how it will do.

It is a very good coin machine also. I found about fifteen dollars on match box bus and two rings in about three hours of hunting one school. don't like the T2 for gold rings but you can't have it all.

Take care, good luck, take the bad and the good and stick with it, it always pays off to know your machine and to really like it and trust it. With out trust and fun then you may as well go fishing...and that is not a bad thing to do as a hobby. Detecting is a lot like fishing the ones that know where to go and what to look for are the ones that get a nice fresh fireside story and most of the time don't come home empty handed. It is not the number of finds but the adventure of the hunt.

Lawrenzo

 

[MattR]

Hello Mike. It

 

[Bill Ladd]

Often the 4 packs go on sale for a buck each @ at store around here & I'll stock up. As the T2 seems to run forever on 'em. Twice as much as my detectors that run on 9 volts. I always had to have extra 9 volts in my pockets before,,,now I think I really prefer the 4 AA's best. I have NIMh rechargeables too, but get alot longer life with the alcalines....
Good luck with the T2
Bill

 

[Bill Ladd]

& has alot of features relic hunters like. Things such as the 14khz liking mid-conductivity stuff like buttons/ lead bullets, it's excellent all metal mode, and it's raw power going deep & finding tiny targets like buckshot. I've found some nice small silver coins & indian heads, large cents too, so it really has alotta versitility I think. Old Cal. Paul has proven it does well in coinshooting too, and that khz should make it a great gold hunter as well I would think. So, there's lots of different setting combinations/ tones to help you in all areas, like the 3b mode for modern areas with bottle caps. The Coinstrike has been called a "Relicstrike" too which can be misleading......as I always used it in all areas.
HH,
Bill

 

[Mike T]

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[jbow]

A regular alkaline will give you about 40 hours of use and hte Oxyride will at least double that, but, that's not the only good thing about them. They start out at 1.7v instead of the regular 1.5v of other AA batteries. That means that as they begin to degrade they will hold 1.5v for much longer than any other AA. The others will drop a little below 1.5 and hold there.

I highly recommend them.

Re: getting your new T-2. Please be patient with it as you may second guess yourself for the first week or two. The T-2 will hear everything in the ground and it sound's off on all of it.
At first I ran my disc up between 23 and 30 and sometimes 40. After a bit I became more used to it and now I alway's run it on 10 in the 2+ mode and the sens on 80. This is in bad ground, high iron ore and high trash. You may be overwhelmed at first but believe me it works, you will find relics.
Another thing, in bad ground and a lot of trash you will have a hard time locking onto a steady number. Mine sometimes runs a range of 12 to 15 numbers. Like, maybe a bullet will read 173 but in really bad ground with a lot of iron ore and nails etc it will occasionally hit the 173 while jumping all through the range of maybe 163 to 180, more or less. If you run into this kind of thing try to pinpoint and if it pinpoints... then dig it and see what it is.

You will really love it once you get used to it. My only other advise is to set aside any other detectors that you may have for at least a month and use nothing except for the T2.

Happy hunting!!

Julien