Coin Mode Deeper??

[Anonymous]

My Whites dealer says he has talked to the guy that designed the MXT and says that coin mode actually goes deeper. As the Relic mode had to be dialed back because of noise. Thoughts?

 

[Anonymous]

I dont know, but for me and my wife useing the MXT I find the relic mode with the disc set at the first preset we get excellent depth and feel it is much better for us than we ever did in the coin and jewelry mode. When in heavy trash I will run in the second preset with the trigger in the cetner positon, but if too many low tones I will go to the forward postion and just check out the high tones. We run the sensitivity at max before the Plus numbers and if it is a weak signal we will check it in the +3 numbers. Since running this way we are getting more deeper targets than we did before, but nothing coin size over 12 inches yet.
Like I say for us the relic mode is what we find that works the best for us, maybe not for everyone, but we can tell out good target better by the tone than the coin and jelwery mode.
Rick

 

[Anonymous]

The C a J mode is definatly deeper I have tested it. I mostly always used Relic as it is far better at seperation. On really junky ground trigger forward and LOCK it down.........and pull the goodies out!

 

[Anonymous]

Sorry I posted this in wrong reponse earlier.
I have found using th C/J mode has a better depth on gold items,(at preset)than relic or propecting. But have increase the gain to the + side in relic and propecting to get the same depth. I hunt mainly beach, so this may be different in another soil condition.

 

[Anonymous]

audio in Relic is easier to tell what the target is>
While coin hunting, though, I dig all non-ferous
targets. RR

 

[Anonymous]

My expereince is not air test or preburried targets, but accual hunting and we seem to get deeper targets in the relic mode and easier to tell the good from the bad. Maybe it is our ground condtions too I dont know, but what ever works the best is what you should use. I wonder how many more see the C&J giving better depth?? and how many see the relic doing better for them??
Rick

 

[Anonymous]

I think a lot depends on your hearing and what machines you have used in the past. Personally, I prefer the C/J mode for those soft whisper signals the deeper stuff makes in that mode, but that might be due to being used to other detectors that are the same on faint targets... personal preference there I guess.
I never liked the "inbetween" sound you get in the relic mode on targets that fall near the disc setting. Too confusing to me when you are hunting a trashy site where there are a lot of that type of signal!! I'm always worried one of those might be a good target where the signal is downgraded due to being next to iron and I would not dig it. I go by audio first and may or may not check the meter when working heavy trash, besides meters are basically useless for that anyway. Its tough enough trying to pull the deeper high conductive coins out of iron with a high frequency machine as it is. There again its probably personal preference but I never could understand the comments in Dave J's engineering report about the mixed mode being better in iron???? Not to me! I believe the testers at that stage were mostly nugget shooters and not used to what us coin shooters have to put up with trying to find targets at pounded sites.
Relic mode with trigger forward vs trigger centered does help quiet the machine down when hunting near powerlines as I recall.
Well flame away Y'all
Tom

 

[Anonymous]

prefer the Coin/Jewelry mode to the Relic mode most of the time. You're also right about throwing TID accuracy out the window in very trashy sites. I find it handy to help confirm some liekly iron junk, but can't rely on a proper good-target TID.

 

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[Anonymous]

I found relic mode will sound off on coins that coin mode wont in the sand. That just my findings and my mxt, could be the way you have it tuned, (settings) coin mode is great but I like relic mode.