T2 question

[Neil]

I was beach hunting my T2 ltd this morning, all metal mode, had sens up high at 95. Doing well with it but a few times I would get a strong signal and absolutely no indication on the meter, no ID I mean. I dug down and found nothing and when I check the hole the signal disappeared.
What the heck would cause that? I was ground balanced at 57.

Also I have a nel sharpshooter coil coming, hoping that will give me better performance in the wet sand. I know, single freq not good on wet sand, but some work ok and when your at the ocean its a bit of a walk back to the truck to get the Etrac so if I can dry sand the T2 and then get some wet sand hunting in too that would be great.

 

[pasttom]

Audio without ID can be depth just past limit. Signal disappearing can be an iron particle lump breaking up but not too likely. More often it is a coin going sideways in the hole or the air gap putting the deep signal out of range. Kick the pile flat are recheck. Kick or scoop the hole wide enough to swing near the bottom. Use the pin pointer. Last ditch resort dig an extra two scoops and recheck.
With a single freq vlf on wet sand you have to make sure your GB is correct for any depth at all and its often at or near zero for wet salt. Doing that I cleanly hit a 6 inch deep nickel the other day in the wet salt and a quarter at nearly a foot. But I still prefer a multi in wet and water.

 

[Neil]

Thanks Pastor Tom. This was several clean clear signals that had no ID whatsoever. I did kick the pile of dug dirt around but honestly I don't think I went any deeper. Your right, I should have,. Maybe the T2 is getting hits deeper than Im expecting? I love how it hits the tiny foil, I know Im not gonna miss jewelry with this detector.

On the wet sand it the T2 would not auto ground balance, like when you push the toggle away from you(it did on the dry sand) so I did it manually and it did quite down some when it got down to 2 . I only tried the all metal so next time I will try the disc mode also.

Thanks for the input,
Neil

 

[Pittsburgh]

Hi Neil,

The T2 will not auto ground balance lower then 40, so you were right to manually ground balance. In regards to the signals with no targets after you dug your hole...I believe this had to do with running the sensitivity to high in the wet sand. When I have the sensitivity above 80 in the wet sand, I believe the T2 will give false signals due to picking up to much ground, caused by conducted salts and black sands. When I run it at 70 or below, less depth, but does seam to not get the false signals. Hope this helps.

Pittsburgh

 

[Neil]

Hi Pittsburg,

The signals with no ID were in the dry sand. Thanks for the info on the auto ground balance, I did not know that. I read the manual back in the spring but I probably should have a look at it again.