Adjusting Sensitivity / Auto Mode ?

[D Wes]

A strange thing happened to day, went to an home stead I hunt, The ground very dry and have always hunted in moist conditions. Its in walking distance of my house and I needed to get out, so I took the walk. Always have ran Sensitivity at 11-oclock being stable. This time I got allot of false and strange signals. One signal sounded like a deep nickel but sounded like trash or Iron mixed. I lowered the Sens. down and it got a little cleaner. Something I haven't done is set it to Auto Mode. The signal was clean and repeatable. I then tried lowering the Sens. all the way down to 4-0clock, still sounded rough" so went back to Auto Mode, smooth and clean, I dug up A nickel at about 4 inches I almost didn't dig. I dug some trash that was deep in Auto Mode, signals were clean and stable. Any thoughts on this, One thing for sure, I will try the Auto mode allot more and use it.
D Wes

 

[Rick(ND)]

Auto mode will run smoother and easier for those new to the Sovereign to use and understand. Manual may not be as stable and more nulling of iron, but it will go deeper as many of us that know the Sovereign will tell you. Where I have seen this is some of the weaker signals that are mostly small signals and a slight tone change of a deeper target, switch to auto and that signal is gone of that target. With the higher sensitivity in manual you may have to go a little slower too than you will in auto.

Rick

 

[adam in cal]

In certain circumstances its better, in others it Might lack the depth needed to find the super deepies,I have seen where auto mode cleans things right up, and have never had auto mode be real chirpy and weird, on the other hand there are spots where I have been unable to hear a real deep one in the auto mode, Just for kicks I will occasionally hear a deep fringe target then switch to auto mode and the target seemingly will disappear, There is little doubt in my mind that auto mode runs cleaner, but it does lack that super deep quality,but in all reality most targets at the normal places hit nice and clean in auto mode, some folks wont use it and think its a newb setting but I sure ain't afraid to run it if the conditions warrant its use, I say if it cleans things up then by all means run the auto mode, it's there for a reason and its not just a newb setting ........good work