T2 turn on settings

[Herb Jones]

Just wondering why the T2 starts with the settings like it does? why not @ zero, or why not maxed out? Seems most here crank the sensitivity until it becomes unstable or simply max it out and run with the chatter... is there a reason why sens@ 60 would be the initial start up point?

 

[REVIER]

Just wondering why the T2 starts with the settings like it does? why not @ zero, or why not maxed out? Seems most here crank the sensitivity until it becomes unstable or simply max it out and run with the chatter... is there a reason why sens@ 60 would be the initial start up point?

Simple...These are the out of the box settings the guys at the factory, Dave Johnson the designer and John Gardner the programmer that I know put out the F75's and probably the entire platform, decided would be the optimum turn on and go settings for the most common amount of places all around the country to get the most stable and deepest performance with the best ID's.
In normal soil most everywhere they should work well, in challenging mineralized dirt or areas with other problems like intense trash or iron tweaking these settings can yield even greater success.
The F70 still starts out at 60, the older F75's did too but I believe the new DST units start out higher now at like 80 or 90 or thereabouts...because they can.

There are people like me that tweak these things to death but there are many others that don't or might not want to so these primary settings gives them the greatest chance of success.

 

[Herb Jones]

i assumed that to
be the case. thanks

 

[chuck ky]

It doesn't sound like the optimum setting to have the disc. at 10 and the tones at 1 when you will be picking up almost every target in the ground but every signal will sound the same. Optimum would be with the tones at 2 or 3 so the iron stands out from the rest of the targets.

 

[REVIER]

It doesn't sound like the optimum setting to have the disc. at 10 and the tones at 1 when you will be picking up almost every target in the ground but every signal will sound the same. Optimum would be with the tones at 2 or 3 so the iron stands out from the rest of the targets.

I disagree...in my case.
I hunt with disc at 1 or 0, and I monotone, on my F70 anyway, there is a difference I can hear in that single tone on many targets and I want to see and hear all signals.
I have trained my brain to be my best discriminator and I can pick out good targets even on that low or no disc.
2 tones or multitones are fine and I have used them for a long time but I find more in monotone or all metal nowadays.
For most however, I agree, these would be the wrong settings for many if they were set that way.
Just different strokes for different folks...there is no optimum setting for everyone because we are all different.

 

[Herb Jones]

i understand about no primary optimal setting for everywhere and everyone, its just always seemed odd to
me that it starts in the middle instead of everythibg zeroed out...

 

[lytle78]

T2 is a relic machine at heart. The default settings reflect that.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

If your just cherry picking coins with little iron the 3 tones works fine ......But if your working in & around iron the one (1) Tone (mono) tone should be used

 

[chuck ky]

when I cherry pick for coins I just use 1 tone but I set the disc. high enough to eliminate most of the trash. If I go for nickles I use 3 tones to get the high tone on nickles and medium on aluminum. I just don't understand how having the iron sound just like everything else would be the best setting. I would think 3 tones you would be able to pick the iron out of the coins and other targets just by sound alone without having to constantly watch the meter to see what the readings are.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

I have Many Targets in one area in my front Yard, from zinc's, dimes, Coppers, Quarters pull tabs and many nails all mix in one 6 foot by 8 foot area

The T2 in (one tone) and low disc settings, will separate all those Targets like a Lazer Beam. It's Mind Blowing, But in 3 tone it sounds like a Arcade Gallery at Disneyland LOL.

Just to many Targets to close together, as 3 Tone just can't handle it.

My Normal Type of hunting is Sports fields & not in a heavy Targets like my front Yard, so I normally hunt in all Metal or 2+

 

[chuck ky]

In 1 tone you get the same signal for each target, in 3 tone you get low for iron, medium for gold and zinc and high for nickels and other coins, you just chose which you want to dig or investigate the signal by the different tones.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

Yes that works great, if the Targets are spread out , which under normal hunting conditions is true.

3 tone works fantastic, in a (very trashy iron site) 1 tone, you will get all the goodies others left behind.

One of The T2's selling points, is it's Lighting Fast Recovery speed, Maybe that's why The T2 defaults on one tone ?

 

[dfmike]

I don't have a T2 but I'M curious about the tones schemes on the 13 kHz Fisher/Tek machines. If you set it at one tone in a trashy area where ferrous targets are present, can you hear a difference between ferrous and non ferrous targets, any difference at all ? If not, and ferrous items are not desired you have to constantly check the visual ID to have an idea if it is ferrous or not ?

I would imagine that at least 2 tones would be needed to separate ferrous from non ferrous targets like my F5 in that mode ?

 

[REVIER]

I don't have a T2 but I'M curious about the tones schemes on the 13 kHz Fisher/Tek machines. If you set it at one tone in a trashy area where ferrous targets are present, can you hear a difference between ferrous and non ferrous targets, any difference at all ? If not, and ferrous items are not desired you have to constantly check the visual ID to have an idea if it is ferrous or not ?

I would imagine that at least 2 tones would be needed to separate ferrous from non ferrous targets like my F5 in that mode ?

Because of that one tone there really is no difference on the actual tone frequency itself that you can hear over non ferrous targets.
2F with that low iron growl is great for that along with the other higher tone choices if you happen to have your disc low enough for iron to come in at all.
However even though I look at the screen most of the time when hunting in monotone, my disc tone setting of choice most of the time, there actually is a slight difference in the tones I can hear between falsing, lots of different sizes and types of iron and many kinds of trash and actual good targets like coins.
Not on all trash and iron but the bulk of it.

On better targets that I want to actually go after and dig that one tone is better, sounds a bit more solid somehow, sharper on the ends...just different.
This is hard to explain and after using monotone for the last two years or so I have just started to notice this difference so I guess it takes a lot of practice and listening to thousands of targets to do this.
I know I heard that difference recently on a few hunts using maxed out disc and high thresh into the positive numbers so other settings might just make a difference on that actual tone and my ability to discern this distinction but I don't know.
I do know that because with these settings I did notice the difference and I was able to revert to my old way of hunting like I did using multi tones and not even look at the screen unless I heard a good tone that sounded better and piqued my interest.
I got a lot of false and not so great sounding trash and iron high falsing which some of the trash I dug just to be sure, but on every one of those more unique sharp and solid sounding repeating signals I heard without looking at the screen I dug and every one was a coin found in a trashy iron filled lawn where there are very few good signals left after hunting here for two weeks.

I also have probably several thousand hours experience listening to single tone Tesoros where I learned there is a big difference in that one tone swinging over all kinds of targets so that probably helped in all this.

These units have screens but the audio component is still a huge thing with them, ALL of the tone choices plus all metal, and both features can be a great asset to all hunters that utilize them together.

 

[Herb Jones]

i have a couple of monotone machines that preform excellently. when i want a monotone machine i run those, and they seperate trashy area targets, arguably just as good or better than most machines on the market. for me, the multi tone feature as well as the vid were two of the selling points for the T2.... i picked one up to add features to my arsenal of detectors. had i wanted to simply hunt in monotone, i could have done that with the Vaquero or the B2uMax. since i own several detectors i use them all to help visualize whats happening in the search field. i typically run the tesoros and nab all of the good solid tones, and then finish up with the T2 in multi tone. i find the varying sounds give me more info on those questionable borderline hits , and its that extra bit that helps me decide whether or not to dig...
i recently started sweeping the entire area with the clean sweep coil. as i locate nice targets i drop poker chips( red for great signals and white for questionable hits), but i dont dig at this point, i am just sweeping, covering the entire patch (that i plan on hunting that day) and getting a feel for the layout of the target field. once i have my chips out (doesn't take long with the clean sweep) i then switch to a tesoro with a small concentric and go back and work the red chips by digging a few, just to get a sense of coin dates, and the age range of the field. i work my way eventually to all of the chips. finally i follow up by running the T2 in multi tone, and its that extra info that helps me decide on the iffy ones. so i pretty much sweep an area three different ways with three different machines and coils. i dont think i am missing much with this method, and this method is no better than any other i suppose... i try to get every drop out of my hard earned money, because i dont have a lot of it...., so i use all of them to hunt with.
what the T2 adds to the equation enhances the data i'm processing. in fact i find myself running delta pitch more frequently as of late, simply to try to better discern what those iffy white poker chip targets are trying to tell me... it works for me, but then again i may be loosing my mind... but i digress... the whole point of this was to better understand why the T2 had those default settings instead of not powering up at zero like most everything else in the world. i may run at that power up setting next hunt i suspect it would be fine for coin shooting, i havent found an extremely deep coin ever, so i doubt maximized tuning the T2 s helping me at... my coins arent that deep where i hunt. but for me multi tone is the preferred method with the T2. my vaquero or B2uMax both have excellent seperation, and provide all of the monotone info i need. i feel that following up with another monotone wouldnt help much.

 

[chuck ky]

One tone would be fine if you're going to dig all signals but 3 allows you to eliminate the bad ones. Actually the only time I ever hunt with the disc. below 40 is the few times I've looked for property markers and they really stand out in 3 tone.

 

[REVIER]

One tone would be fine if you're going to dig all signals but 3 allows you to eliminate the bad ones. Actually the only time I ever hunt with the disc. below 40 is the few times I've looked for property markers and they really stand out in 3 tone.

Again I use one tone a ton, I don't come close to digging all signals, maybe only about 15-20% of the trash I come across, and can eliminate the bad ones just fine.
I have a pretty great track record that proves this.
In my soil one tone has much greater unmasking abilities than multi tones...by far, and in great soil it worked better for me also.
All metal too.
In heavy iron, for me, there is nothing better than these two choices to avoid trash and iron but successfully target the good stuff.

It just depends on the tool you use, what you learn and how you prefer to do it, everyone is different.

 

[Mega]

What is the optimum settings on the T2 and what i prefer to use could and can be poles apart,2+ is my 'personal preference' but i also use 3 tones as well on some of my saxon sites,of course one persons settings may not suit another person.

If i am on a pasture site or deep ploughed and rolled and want some extra depth and the ground is reasonably free from trash then i use either the SEF15x12 or BIG NEL and run it in single tone,1 disc,90sens and full cup headphones listening too the deep whisper signals and dig most of them as its the deep targets that i am after.

 

[Charlives]

I've hunted everyday with my T2s for the past 7 yrs. I've found that the 10 disc is perfect at most local sites. Any lower and you start digging too much iron. My sens settings have gone down every year with more experience. Contrary to poplar youtubers, the chatter at high sens doesn't help at all, in fact it's a major hinderance. You'd have to check every chatter sound for repeatability and that's not practical. You'll hear more deep targets with a quiet background when you develop an ear for it.
I do, however, agree that the machine should default to 2+ settings as that gives much more aural info than 1. HH

 

[chuck ky]

With 2+ you don't have to dig any iron, just pass on the low grunts or raise the disc. to 40 and the iron signals are all gone.