The hum?????

[CHRIS OC]

Wen running the safari I read that it's good to have a little hum or noise to get the deeper coins , I don't mind it but sometimes it stops and wen it does it does not seem to pick up as well is this normal?????

 

[Bryannagirl]

I am new to the Safari as well. But the hum of the Safari is unlike the hum (or most people call it threshold) of any other detector I have heard. It is a very even tone that nulls (tone disappears) over a target that has been discriminated out (unwanted target based on discrimination settings). So with lots of discrimination(lots of rejected targets) you will often not hear much threshold very much. If you slow down you will here the hum come in and drop out more but you need to swing slow. It is normal and is telling you that the detector is rejecting lots of targets. When the hum does not drop out it means the ground you are hunting is pretty free of trash - good thing. That way when you start to here it drop out you have found a location where people have been in the past slow down and start hunting more slowly and you may find some nice treasure among the discriminated trash.

Hope that helps

 

[Hotzone]

When the hum drops out to the point that I must sweep dirt slow, I switch to high trash where the recovery is much faster and the hum is back, while I can sweep much faster knowing I won't miss any thing, because it is nulled out from a junk object as I pass over a good one. High junk setting may effect I'd but i have not noticed it. I would suspect that low junk with targets close together would blend the IDs to a composit number and the high trash would show two distinct numbers; one sweeping right another sweeping left. Anyway I am going to dig iffy numbers anyway so high trash and manual sens about 10 is my normal mode for most areas I hunt.

 

[CHRIS OC]

Thanks HOTZONE, with the sens. At 10 and the trash setting high do you still pick up deep coins ???

 

[Hotzone]

The only areas I have found deep coins were filled over , most coins just are not that deep around here (less than 5 "). I did find a clad quarter at 12 inches, but I could see discoloration from the hailo a couple inches before I got to it and it was raining. Others claim it doesn't effect depth. Today in.the trash I had to lower the sens to 5 in order to detect and found the usual clad. I generally use the 10.5 DD coil for coverage and reach deeper in trash than using the 5 inch concentric that I use only in the absolute worst areas.

 

[CHRIS OC]

Thanks HOTZONE , I have to mess around with it in the test garden a bit more , it's definently a hole different animal than my ace 350.