Cortes SUM tones

[jabbo]

Today I air tested the SUM tones on coins and on pieces of trash and found there is more than 9 tones in SUM. For example, a pulltab with beaver tail gives a certain tone. Break off the tail and the two pieces give different tones but they still fall into the Pulltab catagory. I counted 14 tones in SUM from the coins and trash that I had, but all those tones are squeezed into the 9 target catagories that is on the meter, so each catagory can have more than one tone. Now, no way could I remember all those tones and targets but what I learned is when the target conductivity changes even a little then the tone pitch changes with it, and that the SUM mode might even be capable of more than the 14 tones I got. Then I did a masking test (in Disc mode with knob set at Iron) with a large piece of iron close to a silver dime. When going directly above the iron and then over the dime in the same sweep, I could hear the dime signal break through. But when sweeping above the dime only, without going directly above the iron, then I heard no dime signal. So, as they say, it's best to sweep over the iron from different directions to be able hit the coin just right. Right or wrong, this is what I gathered from these tests.

 

[tab-nabit]

Interesting
And then you have the bars to work with.
On the dime/iron thing, vary the height from the target, further way (lifting the coil) to include the different sweep angles

 

[nad]

That sounds complicated...I still maintain that I would rather watch the scenery, then squint at a display.Think I'll get a bumper sticker made,"I dig every beep".Ice about two inches thick on top of snow .Next batch is scheduled to be six inches deep.,..Not a detecting day,unless Tab Dog is out and about getting ring two..Cordially Nad

 

[jabbo]

That sounds complicated...I still maintain that I would rather watch the scenery, then squint at a display.Think I'll get a bumper sticker made,"I dig every beep".Ice about two inches thick on top of snow .Next batch is scheduled to be six inches deep.,..Not a detecting day,unless Tab Dog is out and about getting ring two..Cordially Nad

I like complicated stuff. That's why I got married again, life was too easy without a wife. I like having a meter for the same reason, I need to be told what to do. HH, Jabbo

 

[nad]

God, how soon we forget.......It was the food,,,,,you were going to find a wife that could cook .....And, as soon as you find out everything about your present detector.........Tesoro is going to have one made for you with all the whistles ,bells, meters, led displays, multi tones, and dancing lights possible to pack on..Suggestion,if you can't dig in Jersey, pack that lovely gal up and go to the Bahamas for a month or so.Larry

 

[jabbo]

Larry, what makes my wifes cooking so good is hunger. But hey, I have to look at the brighter side, her cooking cured the dog from begging at the table. She will be 70 in April, here's us in 1999 when we got married. These days when she goes to the beauty shop they take her in the emergency entrance. If you ever come to Jersey for a visit don't mention the Yankees or Elvis, we want to talk about detecting. HH, Dave

 

[rmptr]

That's a nice lookin gal, Jabbo... and if she looks over your shoulder at the computer screen she's probably gonna smack yah!


rmptr