I own a T2 and a T2 SE. I hunt every day and have 1000s of hours on these machines. I do not have coil covers on them and hunt New England cellar holes almost exclusively. One time my green machine started sounding "blurbly" over targets so I sent it to Felix who "re-shielded" it. That has been the only problem I've noticed. My question is this- should I send my detectors in for tune-ups after so many hours or wait until something acts up? Thank you!!
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Dave Would Know... Tune-ups or not?
- Thread starter Charlives
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amcjavelin
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it probably wouldn't hurt for the amount of hours your putting in
With most electronic stuff, the rule is "if it works, don't fix it". In the case of the T2 (and nearly everything else we make), there's nothing to "tune up" unless ground balance has drifted out of range. Which rarely happens. In the case of the T2, with the ground phase readout you'd know if it drifted out of whack.
Dave because you are the on that built the T2s,i am wondering around these old house sites where that there are alot of nails what do you run your sensitivity at and what program? because i have been told alot of different things.The T2s are excellent machines!!!! thanks for any info
Hey Jon, Dave obviously knows more than I do... but I run the T2 in 2+ tones,10 disc, and 95ish sense at most CT cellar holes. These numbers give you sooo much info.
The temptation is to push the disc down to 0 thinking you'll get a bit more depth, but whatever gains you MIGHT make are lost to having to waste time checking more iron. The default 10 is perfect.
Also, you'll be tempted to run it at 99 sense, which the machine could do out in the woods, but again...you'll slow down as you have to check more ferrous targets that sound good one way but after turning 90 degrees sound like iron. I never use the boost mode as it just raises the power making you check more iron targets. So if time management or fatigue is ever an issue I'd go with the levels I mentioned.
Dave could say I'm absolutely wrong and I'd listen to him
There is one more program I use once in a while, when I dont have my small coil, I learned this from Dankowski....1+ tones, 21 disc, and as high sense as you can. This works on the cellar hole lip in machine gun nails. Thanks!
The temptation is to push the disc down to 0 thinking you'll get a bit more depth, but whatever gains you MIGHT make are lost to having to waste time checking more iron. The default 10 is perfect.
Also, you'll be tempted to run it at 99 sense, which the machine could do out in the woods, but again...you'll slow down as you have to check more ferrous targets that sound good one way but after turning 90 degrees sound like iron. I never use the boost mode as it just raises the power making you check more iron targets. So if time management or fatigue is ever an issue I'd go with the levels I mentioned.
Dave could say I'm absolutely wrong and I'd listen to him
There is one more program I use once in a while, when I dont have my small coil, I learned this from Dankowski....1+ tones, 21 disc, and as high sense as you can. This works on the cellar hole lip in machine gun nails. Thanks!