505 with 10.25 mag. coil?

[silvereagle]

gave my wife the bugger coil and she thinks its harder to pinpoint now,and she gets lots of interference with the coil she thinks the coil is to big?and ideas on what i can show her to help pinpoint with it?and how about sens,settings with a bigger coil or is it in her head. please help.thanks

 

[capt.]

Silvereagle

I have found that with my 10" coil I do get more interference from powerlines and even my cell phone. It is extremely sensitive in all metal mode. It also is difficult in trashy areas because it is scanning such a large area. If she is pin pointing like it explains in the manual it should be just as accurate as with the smaller coil, if she is doing the "x" thing it may be a little less accurate because the center of the coil is bigger which leaves more room for error. My 505 pinpoints accurately with all 3 coils. My advice is for her to stay with the stock coil until she is very profecient with it and can "read" what it is telling her very accurately, then use the larger coil. The learning curve will be easier because it has it's own personality, so to speak. Hope this helps some. Take care.

capt.

 

[silvereagle]

thanks for the help,i think also the ground was so saturated wet from the 20in. of melted snow and rain for 2 days it might have been givin her some halo feedback from the metal in the ground. thanks what mode do you use on the 505?

 

[capt.]

Silvereagle

It depends on the circumstances... but generally speaking if I am using the 4" coil in the park, I like to go with the all metal mode and then switch to discriminate all metal mode to determine if the target is trash or not. You can do this with the standard coil too but the signals will overlap in a trashy area, and that can be confusing sometimes, better to hold it higher off the ground to get each target individually when that happens. If she wants to be more selective she can scan in all metal and then switch to auto notch, which will discriminate most unwanted items out, but because of ground mineralization and metal characteristics, you can miss an occasional good target that way. The easiest way is just to hunt in autonotch because it will yield the best results with the least hassle. If she does that remind her to swing slower to give the detector time to recover from the targets it is blocking out and register the good targets. Also over lap each swing of the coil by half because in the discriminate modes, only the inner coil is active. I only hunt with the large coil in fields or woods where there is little trash because although it is possible to use it in trashy areas, it does take alot of practice to keep the blood pressure down to a minmum. Hope this helps my friend.

capt.