frogmanungar
Member
Ive used my CTX for going on 4 years. I got curious about different settings I could expand its abiility to maybe increase chances of finds. So I build the test garden. Plan was to test Auto 3 and switch back and forth to Manual 28-30. I measured out depths from 5 inches to 9 inches. I buried the following items: a modern dime, modern quarter, 14K womens ring, 14K womens sm gold coin ring, Pull tab, mens silver ring, and mens 14K gold band. At the first depth (9 inches), signals were just to faint or none at all. I also tested using each of 5 programs which included High trash, ground coin, ferrous coin, gold ring/ trashy area, Modified (basically like the coin). I had to reduce each of the depths to 5 inches. Then retested each item buried. Basically I found no difference between the auto 3, and the manual 30. With strength, tone or what show up on screen. I did find a huge difference using high trash program which blocked the gold rings out! As far as the programs I Had the better signals using the ferrous coin or ground coin. Both with rings and the coins buried. I know an older buried coin or ring has oxidation around it which improves signal. But clean and buried what I found was disappointing comparing auto3 with manual 30 no difference. If anyone has anything to add please feel free to respond. I always enjoy hearing some of you experts out there.