The old school keeps putting out for me.

[Dan(NM)]

I went to an old abandoned high school near where I live to try out my Cherry Picking Program that I came up before falling to sleep last night. This old school has been hammered to death for years. I've spent countless hours going over it the Explorer with every different size of coil I could buy. It has been a great producer of silver and some old cents. The school was built in 1918 and was used for 40 or 50 years until a newer one was built. This is probably the worst place on earth to learn a new machine due the excessive amounts of iron, pulltabs and aluminum shards that are everywhere. With each swing of the coil and you'll get 2-3 hits per pass, it's a nightmare. This is the only place so far that I've used the Deus since I got it a couple of weeks ago. This was the 3rd time out and I decided to avoid digging pulltabs and iron and just go after high conductive targets to see if my program would work. I started in deus fast, disc set at 1 with 3 tones, first 2 tones were set at 100hz 3rd set at 800. First threshold at 1, second at 70. Running sensitivity at 92 when i could backing it down to 85 at times. Running at 8khz , iron volume 0, reactivity at 3, silencer at -1, audio response at 5, notch 00-70 I expected the setting to run the Deus rather quiet, but, damn, this is a noisy machine, I was still getting iron and aluminum overshooting and bleeding into the high tone. but, when I did hit a good target the tone was good and repeatable, usually with trash just a few inches away from the coin. The war nickle was in a hole with a wire tie, the plastic coated thin wire, I found the wire first, then scanned the hole again and was still getting a scratchy high tone pulled the nickle out next. I should not have hit that nickle because I had it notched out, but for some reason it sounded off good in the ground, I waved the nickle in front of the coil to check the signal...nothing, not a sound I was still digging a few pull tabs, most were 6-7 inches down, the coins were anywhere from 3-5 inches at the most but, near a trash item. I'm sure i missed a few things with a whacky program like that, but, I found what I was looking for today. When I have more patience and time I'll go back and start digging the low range signals, the 2 times before I was picking up a few nickles including a1937 buffalo and a 1935 mexican centavo.

 

[squirrel1]

Nickels will sometimes up average and provide the high tone. I will disagree with you on your site is a bad place to learn your machine. Quite the opposite. Anyone can run a detector on clean ground and find targets. Throw in the iron/trash a different animal. I noticed you didn't mention reactivity or silencer setting. Your notch setting is good. When you go back to site go reactivity 3, silencer -1, freq 18 khz. I'll bet you're surprised at what comes out of the ground. Also with the settings I recommended try TX power =1.

 

[Dan(NM)]

I ran reactivity at 3 silencer at -1 I forgot all about checking the TX power it must have been at the default setting, I'll have to check it. The Deus is the noisiest beast in high trash spots that I've every used, I'm going to hammer this place with different settings before I move on to cleaner spot. I was using the 9" coil btw.

 

[CZconnoisseur]

If noise is a problem, try a similar 4 khz setting. This will almost completely kill the iron trash, and greatly reduce sensitivity to small pieces of aluminum, especially can slaw. Cast aluminum bits are tougher, but sometimes those can be discerned by the audio. If you notch 00-68 and 93-99 in 4 khz you will occasionally hit nickels (up averaging like you've already seen), and use Reactivity of 3, silencer at -1. Be sure to GB often so that smaller high conductors like dimes and small silver rings are more easily detected through the trash.

Another thing I've noticed - if you're getting some chatter, and then walk onto a patch where the chatter suddenly goes away...SLOW your swing! Many times coins will pop out of the background and once the detector "hooks" the target, it will be a no doubt "DIg me!" signal...works best near sidewalks and high foot traffic areas. The chatter goes away sometimes when you get over either a large iron target or a bunch of nails and there's plenty of goodies hiding in these places usually...

Looks like you are in the right spot! Keep up the good work!

 

[squirrel1]

Forgot to add, turn your disc up. Try between 6.0 and 6.6. That'll quieten it down so you can focus more on the good high tones.

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

Ground bal and keep an eye on it and find clean ground it the min is low keep it at 90 and man a small coil would find you even more finds

 

[BerntOut]

All good advice! I can't add a thing.