Will the T-2 SE hit a coin in the ground a godd honest 12"?

[amcjavelin]

I'm about to pull the trigger on a t-2 se, just trying to gather as much info about it as i possibly can, was hunting with my rg 1000 and hunting with a minelab guy also and we were in close quarters and we were pulling out barber dimes from 9 to 12" range which is strange for our part of the country, just pure loam soil ground mineralization wasn't bad, but anyway i know i keep saying i'm going to get one but i'm another step closer to getting one and just looking for info on how it behaves on deep targets coins espeacialy and numeric count on what to expect from cashce mode to regular and coil recomendations also

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

I got a F75LTD used on here last week with stock 11"DD coil and a 5"DD coil. I did a lot of reading from Thomas Dankowski on how to run her and the T2. He found that running in BP mode which is Boost mode all the time it punched deep and ID's targets better in that mode and sensitivity setting levels didn't seem to matter. CL mode or Cash mode is for clean areas and it went a bit deeper yet but for general hunting and slightly iron and trashy areas it is the way to go. CL mode don't work in these types of areas maybe best in plowed fields or sandy beaches.

Turn on the machine do a manual fast grab ground ballance by pushing trigger forewards and pumping coil. Mine is 85 and I set it on 87- 90 to knock out some of the noisy ground minerals and hot rocks. He says to go up 3-5 points from where the computer gives you doing fast grab for that reason.

Then I set Discrimination to ZERO as the first 1-5 discrimination level settings are a higher gain setting getting less stronger as you increase from 1 up to 5 ( I think it's 1-10 on the T2 ) so I leave it at zero for NO MASKING of good targets in the ground next to iron or junk so can get a reading on all targets swept over. Then you put it in BP mode or Boost Mode and sensitivity on 99 maxed out and hold the coil still about a foot off the ground out in front of you away from you and turn off cell phone too and go through all the 7 different F1 through F7 channels or frequency shifts and listen for a few seconds to each one to find the quietest one and F4 which is the factory pre-set one seems best in my area so I leave it there.

Now with the coil on ground and sweeping back and forth I lower the sensitivity as I'm sweeping so I am not getting a lot of noise and chatter and such from the machine and I can go fairly quietly at 30 with minimal background noise and I get slightly more noisy up to 40 and a quite a bit noisy at 50 so I go no higher as it is too hard to tell good hits from chatter from sweeping.

At 30 I get pretty much no feedbck with the detector prone while digging and while upright sweepingand am getting real good depth. I do at 40sens. on up so I run it there at 30. WITH it in BP BOOST mode and ZERO discrimination and 30 SENSITIVITY I'm hitting small items deep like 8-9-10 inches small foil pieces and small iron ans nails and such and when I hit a coin you can tell so I would say yes on 10-12 inches only because I haven't hit one that deep yet here AS I JUST GOT THE MACHINE AND AM GOING OVER PREVIOUSLY POUNDED SITE digging everything that is a solid hit to see if I missed anything with my Etrac from before and my soil is pretty mineralized with iron throughout as anything above 40 sensitivity is noisy and chattering on all the hot rocks and minerals and small foil in my soil around here hence the high ground ballance numbers. OH he says to sweep it faster to hit harder and deeper too!!

 

[TerraDigger]

AMC, I think it can get those depths. But alot depends on soil/emi/target age etc. On my T2 standard got a nickle at 10 inches in De mode in pretty mineralized Idaho soil. Sens was about 75. Here's the weird part. Disc was set at highest level possible. Nickle should never have been noticed. But it gave a nice solid repeatable faint high tone. Checked the hole for other targets..nothing. Just the nickle.

I will offer two tips if you don't know this already:
1. focus on the tones, not too much on the VDI numbers. The T2 doesn't have the most stable vdi readings. Its a tone machine.
2. master the art of identifying iron with the DD coil. Its a must. This is where air testing at home is invaluable instead of initially trying to learn it in the field. Many others and myself here have posted tutorials on that subject here. Do a search. In search box enter....T2*......use the asterisk...its a wildcard that will pull up all things related to T2. Select...all dates.....

Good luck

 

[chuck ky]

i have never changed the channels but i thought that option was only available in all-metal. i can't remember ever seeing it in the disc. mode settings. thanks

 

[Utuk_Xul]

Changing frequencies on the T2 is a global option that applies to both disc and all-metal. I'm not sure about the F75. I would imagine it is the same.

 

[ATLfun]

i have never changed the channels but i thought that option was only available in all-metal. i can't remember ever seeing it in the disc. mode settings. thanks

Frequency can easily be changed in Disc. Mode, I do it a lot. Just pull the toggle back, and push the menu button to adjust. It really makes a difference when you are near high voltage lines, IMO. I was amazed at how quiet my T2 is right under power lines, but then it seems to be a little bit of a chatty battle up to about 50 feet on either side.


Brian

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

I think because once you get to a certain depth (I read somewhere I think from NASA Thomas D's info) that the discrimination function setting becomes very ineffective so then the nickles can come through because it was deep. Discrimination may be only effective to 8-9 inches depending on soil mineralization and hot rock conditions beach sand may be deeper yet.

 

[TerraDigger]

E-Trac Tom, you are correct on that posting. Excellent memory. Gold star for you. It was my post

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

Thanks, I stand corrected TerraDigger you said that.

 

[AndyNM]

In mild soil in Boost (bP) or Cache (CL) mode even deeper. I'm talking about a coin sized target.
When I got one of the first T2 SE's I thought the boost or cache mode depth is just marketing, but it isn't.
I have a friend in bavaria Germany and he switched from a Minelab X-Terra 705 to the T2 SE. Since he did that he sends me all the pictures of his T2 SE finds and the mails always end with the words : Teknetics rocks! Since he showed the depth to some of his detecting friends they all want a T2 SE.

Andy,NM