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hang7575

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Just got my V3 a week ago, love it been finding lots of buttons and colonial coins that my MXt missed. What does the tx boost actually do, I know sends more signal to the coil, so would it be better to hunt with a gain of 10 plus boost or to hunt with gain of 15 without boost if you can get gain that high.Which one would go deeper??
 
Here in VA in good ground I have been running my boost on, gain as high as 15 and disc. sens as high as 90 before going unstable. It has been different everywhere but have always had boost on. I know in theory that high minerals will make the boost on overload so there will be places you can not use boost. In those cases maybe someone in bad ground areas can chime in. I imagine under high minerals with boost off you will have to experiment with gain and sens. to get the best result but have not been in that ground with mine yet.

Jerry
 
hang7575 said:
Just got my V3 a week ago, love it been finding lots of buttons and colonial coins that my MXt missed.
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Anytime we search a site that we, or anyone else, previously hunted, we're quite likely to find something we/they missed. So, when you say you've been finding buttons and colonial coins the MXT missed, are you referring to the results from working a site you or others have hunted with an MXT on prior visits? Do you mean that you used an MXT as well as the Spectra V3 at the same time, comparing performance side-by-side, so to speak, and that the Spectra V3 did better?

Also, are you using the same search coil as you used with the MXT, and are the settings used with the Spectra V3 similar to what you used with the MXT?

Just curious because side-by-side comparisons are the only absolute method to determine if one make/model detector shows any performance strength or weakness compared with another. That eliminates differences in soil moisture and condition, and provides immediate comparisons on naturally located target prior to recovery.

I've been doing a lot of in-town coin hunting as well as out-of-town/rural "relic" hunting with a couple of visions and an assortment of models from White's as well as a couple of Minelab's and Garrett's and Tesoro' during the past couple of months, so I am interested in actual side-by-side, on-the-spot comparisons with like coils rather than just a 'gut feeling' sort of opinion.

Monte
 
Regardless of soil, coils, side be side comparisons, ect., ect.. The MXT missed what the V did not. It's a great machine
 
Monte,

Are you going to post your results thus far? Sounds like a lot of work to just keep it under wraps. Which machine is in the lead?
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Monte said:
hang7575 said:
Just got my V3 a week ago, love it been finding lots of buttons and colonial coins that my MXt missed.
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Anytime we search a site that we, or anyone else, previously hunted, we're quite likely to find something we/they missed. So, when you say you've been finding buttons and colonial coins the MXT missed, are you referring to the results from working a site you or others have hunted with an MXT on prior visits? Do you mean that you used an MXT as well as the Spectra V3 at the same time, comparing performance side-by-side, so to speak, and that the Spectra V3 did better?

Also, are you using the same search coil as you used with the MXT, and are the settings used with the Spectra V3 similar to what you used with the MXT?

Just curious because side-by-side comparisons are the only absolute method to determine if one make/model detector shows any performance strength or weakness compared with another. That eliminates differences in soil moisture and condition, and provides immediate comparisons on naturally located target prior to recovery.

I've been doing a lot of in-town coin hunting as well as out-of-town/rural "relic" hunting with a couple of visions and an assortment of models from White's as well as a couple of Minelab's and Garrett's and Tesoro' during the past couple of months, so I am interested in actual side-by-side, on-the-spot comparisons with like coils rather than just a 'gut feeling' sort of opinion.

Monte
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VERY WELL PUT. THAT, IN MY OPINION IS THE BEST WAY TO COMPARE,TEST DETECTORS. I HAVE BEEN BACK TO PLACES WITH DIFFERENT DETECTORS AND FOUND COINS THAT I HAVE JUST MISSED DUE TO THE FACT THAT I DID NOT GO OVER THEM IN EARLIER HUNTS AT THAT SITE. LARRY FROM NWI FOUND A QUARTER THE OTHER DAYIN A CORN FIELD NO MORE THAN 2-3 INCHES DOWN WITH HIS DETECTOR. I REALLY DONT THINK THE OTHER DETECTORS MISSED IT , JUST DID NOT GO OVER IT. JMHO...SONNY
 
I have not seen anybody post such comparison. Did I miss post like this. It would be interesting to see.
 
Monte, I hunted the area in question 3 different times hard with my MXT with an sef 10x12 coil the area is only about 50x50 ,on a hilltop in a horse pasture. I found 7 buttons and a large cent that I missed with the MXT , They were 1-2 inches deeper.Nobody still has answered my original post about TX boost. Hunted with MXT gain on 3 dis on 3 in relic mode, the V3 in relic factory settings except rx gain at 12 stock coil.
 
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