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about ready to pull my hair out

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Goes4ever

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went to a house today built in 1880's and I just could not get any good signals, it rained some yesterday and the ground had some moisture in it, but my machine was just chatter city. Nothing would lock on, I mean nothing. I mananged 2 wheats and they were only 4" deep.

My hunting partner uses the DFX, he got 5 wheats, and a mercury dime.

Not sure what I am doing wrong, I tried relic mode, coin mode, lowered gain for awhile, tried to raise gain for awhile. I just could not get a good signal to save my life.

I am very frustrated with this detector today! :confused:

any ideas???
 
Your came from a non chatty machine. If you don't want some chatter you just have to reduce the sens. Maybe a smaller coil is in order?
 
I am using the 6x10
I switched machines with my buddy for a little bit and his DFX does not act like that, and he was using the 9.5 stock coil.

I mentioned I reduced the gain and it did not help
 
well I really do not want to buy another coil. If I cannot use it with what I bought I am outta luck. Maybe it was just this property, it was littered with iron, BAD
real bad.

Maybe a detector with iron mask would help...lol
 
Hi, If you use the 9.5 coil in trashy areas it will tend to chatter a lot. To help this problem set your mode to relic turn your gain to 9 or until you have the lowest chatter you can get. Turn the Disc to 4 be sure to ground the detector over clean ground using the pin pointer to find an area of ground without trash before pumping the detector to set ground balance. Place the the ground balance on lock and the pin point switch full forward. Set the threshold to just below being audible. If this doesn't help I don't know what else to do.
 
Well 7" down I pulled out this 1895 Indian. I was pretty happy the MXT got that depth with the 6x10 coil and DRY, I mean extremely dry ground!

Is this at the same farm house you pulled the 7" COIN? It can't be the moisture, because that should have made it better. The two detectors are so close in frequency I don't think it was an EMI problem. Most of the guys I was hunting with had DFX detectors and I had no problem keeping up with them. If he was using a stock 9.5 then I don't think a 5.3 would have helped because the 6x10 separates better than the 9.5. You didn't say how deep his finds were but in my soil my 9.5 is deeper than the 6x10.

It's hard to say because you don't know how he had the DFX programed, like how many filters was he using. Sometimes it's hard to solve long distance problems.?????? :confused: Rob
 
rcasio44 said:
Well 7" down I pulled out this 1895 Indian. I was pretty happy the MXT got that depth with the 6x10 coil and DRY, I mean extremely dry ground!

Is this at the same farm house you pulled the 7" COIN? It can't be the moisture, because that should have made it better. The two detectors are so close in frequency I don't think it was an EMI problem. Most of the guys I was hunting with had DFX detectors and I had no problem keeping up with them. If he was using a stock 9.5 then I don't think a 5.3 would have helped because the 6x10 separates better than the 9.5. You didn't say how deep his finds were but in my soil my 9.5 is deeper than the 6x10.

It's hard to say because you don't know how he had the DFX programed, like how many filters was he using. Sometimes it's hard to solve long distance problems.?????? :confused: Rob
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no it was not the farm house where I got the indian on friday
his finds were not deep, maybe 4-5" max. He was using the coin pre-set mode on the DFX. I am going back to the farm house where I got the indian on friday next week, as long as weather is good, I can try again there. I was just very frustrated because no matter what I tried, nothing worked for me???
 
Titan Man said:
Hi, If you use the 9.5 coil in trashy areas it will tend to chatter a lot. To help this problem set your mode to relic turn your gain to 9 or until you have the lowest chatter you can get. Turn the Disc to 4 be sure to ground the detector over clean ground using the pin pointer to find an area of ground without trash before pumping the detector to set ground balance. Place the the ground balance on lock and the pin point switch full forward. Set the threshold to just below being audible. If this doesn't help I don't know what else to do.
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I was not using the 9.5 my partner was
I had gain set right about 9 and disc was right on 4

what does locking the ground balance do and setting trigger forward?
 
Were you near any power lines? Sometimes and I do mean "sometimes" my MXT will be very "chatty" when I'm near a lot of power lines. Specially when at a ball park with a lot of lights, fences, etc. Don't know what else to say. Lots have given their two cents here. I'm sure with all the help, it will be straightened up soon. Also my hubby hunts with a DFX and we don't "chat" with each others detectors. HH to you, Nancy
 
Locking the ground balance will keep the balance the same everywhere you sweep instead of constantly trying to adjust. The trigger all the way forward silences most iron sounds and gives you a nice high signal on coins. When you get a strong iron reading you will get a short audible burp. Try this if you go back to the same place or anywhere there is a lot of trash.
 
to much moisture. when we get rain like that and the ground is saturated some machines have a real problem in those conditions. I noticed this with other Whites machines as well. I would hold off till the ground dries up a bit have another go at it.
 
If the site is littered with iron, then Titan Man has it right. Balance on clean ground, and lock! Trigger forward for iron grunt, and cherry pick the high tones.
 
Here's another idea:

Were you and your buddy hunting close together? By this, I mean, were you hunting within throwing distance?

If so, the two machines may have been interfering with each other. "But, the DFX was working properly without any chatter..." The Dual Filter system on the DFX may block out some of the interference from the MXT. This would cause the false signals you were describing.

Also, powerlines, generators, electric fences, and in some cases, Cell Phones will interfere with a machine.

One troubleshooting thing you could have tried would be to swap coils with your friend. If you are still getting the same response, it could be the environment or it could be the machine. If you swap coils and the problem goes away and then he inherits the problem, you may have a bad coil.

I hope you get it squared away!

-Ian
 
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