Funny thing, 72 hours ago I didn't know anything about the new Whites detector called the "Vision". Just happened to visit my local Whites dealer (John) to talk about the TDI. He had just got a Vision in the day before and asked me if I wanted to see it. The more I played with it the more I was impressed. Thursday night I stayed up till 1 AM reading posts on this forum, and the more I read the more I realized a purchase was near. Friday morning I paid John a visit only to discover that another customer in the process of buying the unit I had been testing earlier. As I walked in the customer grabbed ahold of the Vision and said "this one is mine!" I wasn't to concerned because I knew that John had received a second Vision on Thursday. So John got to sell 2 Visions on Friday! John chuckled as we filled out the paper work and pointed out that the last 3 digits of the serial number are 001.
Friday evening I began testing the Vision in my backyard. First hour was a bit overwhelming. In typical fashion I tried using it with way to much gain. Not good, chatter on every swing, the thing sounded like I was playing a video game! A quick check of the "Probe" function showed that I should be running the RX gain around 6. With TX boost on I have drop the RX gain to 4. Once I got a handle on the gain, the next item on the agenda was to deal with some interference that I was picking up from some nearby power lines. This was easily accomplished by a quick tweak of the Frequency Offset. So far so good. After detecting a few targets in my test garden, I turned off the detector for the night and realized that I had much to learn.
Saturday morning I did some turf detecting at a local high school that I have cleaned out with a Minelab Explorer. The first thing that I noticed was that I was hitting coins at depth that I didn't know were there. Shoot, I had been over this area numerous times with the Explorer, even with the Coiltek 15" WOT coil, and I was sure I had gotten everything there was to get! Most of it was clad, but I was pleasantly surprised by a couple of wheaties and a buffalo nickel.
Saturday afternoon I made it back home and read Mr. Bills post on being able to detect and ID a quarter at 12 inches. So... when my wife wasn't looking I added another row to my test garden. 4 quarters spaced 24 inches apart in clean ground buried at 6,8,10, and 12 inches. Now it was time to see if I could match Mr. Bills results. I setup the detector with the coin program, set the RX gain to 6 and turned off ground balance tracking. After a quick ground balance, initial testing revealed that I could easily ID the 6" quarter. The 8" quarter was a bit rough but did ID OK and gave repeatable signal. The 10" gave an occasional signal, but no ID. 12" was nothing. Looked like I had a long ways to go to match Mr. Bills results. I repeated the test with TX boost on and the RX gain set to 4. Now the 8" quarter was solid and the 10" quarter would ID. Next step was to Change the Frequency setting from Three Frequencies to 2.5Khz. A repeat of the test showed solid ID at 10" and choppy but a detectable ID at 12!
Now with the Vision tweaked to hit quarters at 12", I cruised around the back yard and discovered several deep coins that I didn't know about. Like most of you, my yard was my first victim when I got into this hobby years ago. When I got my Explorer I meticulously sucked every good target from the lawn. It was a very pleasant surprise to realize that there are still deeper targets waiting to be cleaned up by the Vision!
So that is my first 24 hours with a Vision. Still much to learn. My congratulations to the engineers at Whites.
Hey Steve H., exciting to see your fly speck gold test! This new detector is going to be a great all around machine.
Friday evening I began testing the Vision in my backyard. First hour was a bit overwhelming. In typical fashion I tried using it with way to much gain. Not good, chatter on every swing, the thing sounded like I was playing a video game! A quick check of the "Probe" function showed that I should be running the RX gain around 6. With TX boost on I have drop the RX gain to 4. Once I got a handle on the gain, the next item on the agenda was to deal with some interference that I was picking up from some nearby power lines. This was easily accomplished by a quick tweak of the Frequency Offset. So far so good. After detecting a few targets in my test garden, I turned off the detector for the night and realized that I had much to learn.
Saturday morning I did some turf detecting at a local high school that I have cleaned out with a Minelab Explorer. The first thing that I noticed was that I was hitting coins at depth that I didn't know were there. Shoot, I had been over this area numerous times with the Explorer, even with the Coiltek 15" WOT coil, and I was sure I had gotten everything there was to get! Most of it was clad, but I was pleasantly surprised by a couple of wheaties and a buffalo nickel.
Saturday afternoon I made it back home and read Mr. Bills post on being able to detect and ID a quarter at 12 inches. So... when my wife wasn't looking I added another row to my test garden. 4 quarters spaced 24 inches apart in clean ground buried at 6,8,10, and 12 inches. Now it was time to see if I could match Mr. Bills results. I setup the detector with the coin program, set the RX gain to 6 and turned off ground balance tracking. After a quick ground balance, initial testing revealed that I could easily ID the 6" quarter. The 8" quarter was a bit rough but did ID OK and gave repeatable signal. The 10" gave an occasional signal, but no ID. 12" was nothing. Looked like I had a long ways to go to match Mr. Bills results. I repeated the test with TX boost on and the RX gain set to 4. Now the 8" quarter was solid and the 10" quarter would ID. Next step was to Change the Frequency setting from Three Frequencies to 2.5Khz. A repeat of the test showed solid ID at 10" and choppy but a detectable ID at 12!
Now with the Vision tweaked to hit quarters at 12", I cruised around the back yard and discovered several deep coins that I didn't know about. Like most of you, my yard was my first victim when I got into this hobby years ago. When I got my Explorer I meticulously sucked every good target from the lawn. It was a very pleasant surprise to realize that there are still deeper targets waiting to be cleaned up by the Vision!
So that is my first 24 hours with a Vision. Still much to learn. My congratulations to the engineers at Whites.
Hey Steve H., exciting to see your fly speck gold test! This new detector is going to be a great all around machine.