Can you tell much about a target by the sound of the audio alone on the F2?

[Mick in Dubbo]

ie larger targets sounding wider, rubbish targets sounding broken up? Do pull tabs and screw caps give off any distinctive tell tale signs of what they really are? eta.
Mick Evans.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

n/t

 

[pulltab]

since no one else chimed in. on my f4 it has 4 tone kid of low to hi the to higher ones tend to be coins silver etc, the lower tend to be iron, pull tabs or junk.

I believe it says so in the manual. you can download it from fisherlabs.com
just trying to help

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Thanks for having a go at it. Unfortunately, most of our coins are either in pull tab range or screw cap range, so what I'm asking, is there any tell tail sounds in the way that the F2 hits these targets, that allows you to tell them apart from coins. Even if the bounce around a certain way on the TID.
thanks.
Mick Evans.

 

[barberx]

Mick, being an old guy I know what your asking. The blaring sound tabs makes vs the smaller mellow sound coins makes! Just recieved my F2 last night so maybe have some input soon. I think alot of the more moderen detectors have circuits that turns on full audio when ever any metal ulnder coils.
Richard Tx

 

[Mike Hillis]

Using the DD coil, high tone bottle caps sounded just like high tone quarters. I had to use the Id numbers to tell the difference.

I was told that using the stock concentric coil would help to id them properly, but as I never used the stock coil I can't say how it worked.

HH

Mike

 

[Skillet]

Since your coins sound different from ours.

It seems that a TID machine with a more defined visual readout than the F2 might help, in your case.

I haven't been terribly impressed with the F2's ability to ID targets, so far.

Skillet

 

[barberx]

Mick, got out for about an hour with the new F2, other than the 4 tone id I couldn't tell anything. Jumped around on tone and id- but think it was just lots of trash giving mixed signals
Richard Tx

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Thanks Richard. It will take a bit of time to get used to it, but as you gain experience, then this sort of information will come to you. I've got a couple of hundred hours on the Ace as well as the X-terra, and I'm still learning more about them. It would be interesting to know how much information you can milk out of the F2. As far as I know, there isn't a single unit here in Australia as yet.
Mick Evans.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

I missed your post the other day. The TID information may help, they are useless on the Explorer, but better on the Ace (go figure that one) so I was wondering how the F2 held up on it's tone response ie is there something about the way that a screw cap sounds off as opposed to a coin, or would the VCO pinpoint scream at you a lot more than on a screw cap than a coin (somewhat like the X-Terra's do). I know that this is a Fishers forum and are only mentioning these other detectors as a reference point as they are what I've used in the past, and am hoping that someone can relate to it. if someone can relate to how the audio system responds, I'd be grateful. There was a good comment made on the way that round targets hit the coil of an ID Edge the other day. The only catch to that, is it doesn't relate to screw caps. The coins that I like hunting most, come in the same area as a US 1 cent coin, if that is of any help.
Mick Evans.