Cursor versus Audio Response

[DFXer]

When relic hunting with my SE in Iron Mask (20-25) mode and Ferrous sounds, I get a situation where the cursor is at the edge of the IM vertical line (indicating iron) but the audio is high pitched indicating non ferrous and high conductivity. If I keep sweeping over the target I can sometimes get the cursor to move to right side. If I dig the target it is usually non ferrous.

Is this normal operation? How is it possible for the cursor and audio pitch to not agree since both of those functions must be triggered by the same information.

This doesn't happen all the time so there must be a combination of effects that cause it.

Any suggestions?

Paul

Paul

 

[NealNoIN]

If the tone is high in Ferrous sounds then the cursor will move to the right after you hear the threshold tone. If you need to get more threshold tone between target tones then turn the sensitivity down.

 

[dewcon4414]

When in COND the tones are driven by the cond numbers.. when in FERR they are driven by the ferr numbers. I get those kind of tones mostly from bottle caps. The SE reads in as 00 ferr then will pop over to the left side on the second swing. Also like neal said if you are picking up iron close to Cond targets the recovery is just too slow for your swing. Once you get one of those questionable tones reswing from another angle at a slower sweep... or pinpoint the target. Most of the time pinpointing gives me the correct reading when the target is directly under the coil.

 

[Magicman]

I tend to do a circle around the object and shorten my swing.

 

[digitrich]

Audio is faster and gives more accurate and deeper ID than the cursor does. When that happens (audio high and cursor towards iron), a couple of different things can be occurring: iron in the hole with the better target, silent masking of a very small trash iron with the better target and sometimes the target is just barely, nearly out of reach (deep) for proper ID, or the target is on edge etc. and or you may be hunting in an area that has heavy mineralization or maybe old ground up coal slag and such. Iron rusts in the soil, and some spots have rusted, granules of iron in the soil as well as iron trash. The important thing to do is to learn the tones because cursor ID is nowhere near as accurate, deep, or as fast as the tones are.