Tried 2 Tone Ferrous Today

[Digger]

I hear ya. But if my dirt was shooting out Indians with a ferrous reading of 01, I don't think I'd knock out the 01 line, just in case. Like I said, I've not had an IH come in with a ferrous that low. Lowest was 07, if I recall. But I've dug IH cents with conductive properties from 24 to 36 while running in both ferrous and conductive tones. Just for giggles, you might consider knocking out the 35 ferrous line instead of the 01, just to see if it is the effects of a "wrap around". If that takes care of the problem, I'd stay with it. JMHO By the way, don't give up that 77 IH. It took me 38 years to find my first. HH Randy

 

[Goes4ever]

if your dirt was shooting out indians at with a ferrous reading of 01............ that made me laugh, it has happened two times VS 100 times being iron.

just try what I ask you or anyone else who cares to try digging some of the 01-31 signals, tell me what you get!

 

[Digger]

G4E, one other thought I had while sitting here in the tropics of Iowa...... if you get a chance to hit one of those places with iron at 01-31, blank out the 35 ferrous line and the 50 conductive line, just to see what happens. My initial thought was the iron wrapping around on the ferrous side. But I wonder if it could wrap the high end of conductive, similar to what we find on the X-TERRA? If it works, maybe we can convince Minelab to reverse the conductive mapping. (50 on the left and 1 on the right) That way a Quick Mask would do the trick by allowing us to blank out one line and one line verticle. JMHO Thanks. HH Randy

 

[Gaz]

....as I said......we tried 2 tone ferrous with some quickmask at the bottom and it was un-usable!!

Something happens that I can't explain. The machine just became so erratic and the the crosshair just seemed to want to sit on the top line of where the quickmask was.

As soon as we removed any black, back to normal.....low tones and high tones!!.....can't explain it.

I think that's where some people are getting stuck. They are trying two tone ferrous but STILL out of habit bringing the mask up instead of opening fully up and listening to the low tones.

JMHO

Gaz.

 

[EladSwerdna]

After reading this thread, I think I am going to try 2 tone today.

Why? After some consideration, I realized that I dig just about every signal that isn't iron anyways, so why torture myself with 4+ tones when I can just keep it a simple 2?

I will post back after my hunt to let you all know how it went.

 

[EladSwerdna]

Well, I only got out for an hour yesterday (humidity was so high), and I tried an old field with sparse targets. I only dug 3 things, which turned out to be junk.

Truth be told, I found myself missing the other tones. With multi tones, it just feels like I am recieving more information.

I suppose if I was at a trashy park it would be different, but I think I am going to go back to multi tones for my fields/woods.