Thank you IDX... great post. I put myself in the category of "newer guy that wants to find coins" and I definitely have paralysis by analysis on occasion. I have found myself chasing iffy signals that I try desperately to make a desirable target... only to find a rusty piece of iron yet again. I have to also admit, my learning curve has essentially ignored the high trash setting and focused on the ferrous coin and ground coin separation modes... your post is making me rethink... especially since I seem to be swinging on difficult ground. Back out to my test garden I go.
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CTX 3030 Combined Mode Ferrous line
- Thread starter huntindog1
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I always thought the bins are for setting tones and nothing to do with discrimination.In the combined mode you can have two or more different tones in the same discriminated area. The furious line is the fifth bin that you can assign a tone that has nothing to do with nulling. I agree with Digger.
Jim
Jim
IDXMonster
Well-known member
jerseyjim said:
That is true Jim, Randy is right about that. As it goes, Randy is not the kind to float bad information around, he is one of the most knowledgeable people on ANY of the forums. It's not necessarily somebody was "wrong", but maybe it was stated incorrectly or they didn't know.
If you have your screen completely open with no disc, you will hear every metallic target you encounter. At least that's the idea,and I've tested it to be true. Setting the bins and setting the disc are two totally different things.
And yes, I agree it may be called the "furious" line because I certainly do get that way about it! Just FYI if you didn't know, it's "Ferrous". I'm suspecting a spell checker is working overtime on that one....
Davy crockett
New member
Hello again folks. So I've been running a heavy decimation beginning coin program and yesterday I had a horrible day, everyone I was with in our club got 40 to 60 coins and several other items. I got only 5 coins. I was having so much Nulling I was having a rough time trying to figure things out. The Nulling appeared to last for a second or two before the hum came back only to shortly go into Nulling mode again.
After reading this thread I ran a open screen and practiced on my front yard which is very trashy and lots of iron, in the combined mode and high trash. Yes I did hear all the tones going off but I think that I was able to isolate the hits that I thought was important. It wasn't that hard to pick out all the coins with the high pitched tone hits with the open screen. On top of that i thought it was much easier to pick out hits near the 12 line that looked promising. (I didn't do any digging, just testing).
So what good is a program for coins only to have all the Nulling verses a open screen listening to everything and picking out all good hits. I haven't taken this newly found knowledge to the park yet (this is church day) but tommorrow I will. That will be a great test for me.
So folks what do you all think. I'm very thankfully for all of you and hopefully gain a bunch more knowledge from you all.
After reading this thread I ran a open screen and practiced on my front yard which is very trashy and lots of iron, in the combined mode and high trash. Yes I did hear all the tones going off but I think that I was able to isolate the hits that I thought was important. It wasn't that hard to pick out all the coins with the high pitched tone hits with the open screen. On top of that i thought it was much easier to pick out hits near the 12 line that looked promising. (I didn't do any digging, just testing).
So what good is a program for coins only to have all the Nulling verses a open screen listening to everything and picking out all good hits. I haven't taken this newly found knowledge to the park yet (this is church day) but tommorrow I will. That will be a great test for me.
So folks what do you all think. I'm very thankfully for all of you and hopefully gain a bunch more knowledge from you all.
Larry (IL)
Well-known member
Davy crockett said:
You may have answered your own question when you said you are running heavy discrimination. For coin hunting, I reject the iron and foil and let my eyes and ears do the rest of the discrimination of whether to dig or not.
Davy crockett
New member
Thanks Larry, I couldn't stand it, I had to run to the park with my new found knowledge, in 30 minutes I made 7 good hits,
3 quarters, one dime, one penny, one small child silver ring and somekind of object that my wife said was a Indian feather pendant.
On a complete open screen. Now I did get get many other hits, I should have wrote them down but I left them alone for now. Next time I will write them down and compare them to the tid chart. Now the TID chart really comes in handy, who knows what I missed, I was only looking for coins and stuff in that range.
3 quarters, one dime, one penny, one small child silver ring and somekind of object that my wife said was a Indian feather pendant.
On a complete open screen. Now I did get get many other hits, I should have wrote them down but I left them alone for now. Next time I will write them down and compare them to the tid chart. Now the TID chart really comes in handy, who knows what I missed, I was only looking for coins and stuff in that range.