The wife and I went to the beach this afternoon. She with one of our trusty Dual Field PI's, and I with my new Sov GT. Wow! I must say that in the beginning I was taken aback with all of the different sounds that come out of this machine. Having only used Whites PI's prior to today I wasn't prepared for that. Those familiar with the the PI's know what I'm talking about. A fraction of the tone variations that I heard with the Sov. The constant threshold changes kept throwing me initially. When it changed I'd look for the target and couldn't find it. After awhile I was able to clearly hear a target worth digging and realized that it was just reacting to the junk metal. Most of the time the threshold was kind of a low pitched crunchy buzz, which I assume was after nulling over iron. I think that I was running the sensitivity too high at around 10:00, nulling out too frequently.
The manual refers to top right switch (Track, fix & P/Point) as the ground balance switch. Indicating it's used in the all metal mode and switching to track to do so. I've read that others set the ground balance in discriminate mode adjusting the sensitivity control until the threshold starts to null, then backing it off until it holds steady, while either slowly sweeping or moving the coil up and down. I wonder why that isn't mentioned in the manual, it often is on this forum.
My main problem was figuring out where to put the hip mount bag that I purchased with the unit. I'm a lefty, with the Dual Field I was able to where the box on my left hip and swing with my left hand comfortably. This bag is too big and made that impossible. When I tried switching it to my right hip it interfered with my scoop (babbs), snagging it in the headphone cable and just plain got in the way. VERY FRUSTRATING!! The bag is too darn big. Some of you are chest mounting, I'd like to know how. I'm often out for quite awhile and shaft mounting isn't for me. I'd like to have access to the controls and have the thing NOT be in the way.
I'm excited and looking forward to learning this thing, I'll keep you posted on my progress. Any help, suggestions etc... would be much appreciated.
Today's nut for 2 hours: $2.29
No bottle caps or bobby pins
Best,
Sandhunter
Santa Monica, CA
The manual refers to top right switch (Track, fix & P/Point) as the ground balance switch. Indicating it's used in the all metal mode and switching to track to do so. I've read that others set the ground balance in discriminate mode adjusting the sensitivity control until the threshold starts to null, then backing it off until it holds steady, while either slowly sweeping or moving the coil up and down. I wonder why that isn't mentioned in the manual, it often is on this forum.
My main problem was figuring out where to put the hip mount bag that I purchased with the unit. I'm a lefty, with the Dual Field I was able to where the box on my left hip and swing with my left hand comfortably. This bag is too big and made that impossible. When I tried switching it to my right hip it interfered with my scoop (babbs), snagging it in the headphone cable and just plain got in the way. VERY FRUSTRATING!! The bag is too darn big. Some of you are chest mounting, I'd like to know how. I'm often out for quite awhile and shaft mounting isn't for me. I'd like to have access to the controls and have the thing NOT be in the way.
I'm excited and looking forward to learning this thing, I'll keep you posted on my progress. Any help, suggestions etc... would be much appreciated.
Today's nut for 2 hours: $2.29
No bottle caps or bobby pins
Best,
Sandhunter
Santa Monica, CA