Hello all,
I am a Tesoro guy that bought an XLT about 6 weeks ago. Like many of you, I mainly hunt for silver coins. I am trying to find deep silver in the local parks and the ground here appears to have heavy mineralization. Most of the parks around me (Wash DC area) are in creek flood zones and the ground is sandy with a lot of round river rocks in it. I have tested it using the DC phase and get a reading anywhere from 75 to 93. How do you tell if you are reading the ground and not something in the ground? I know 93 is a bad number but at what number is the ground OK?
Another reason I think the ground is bad is because most other deep silver programs people post on the internet put my detector into overload. Also, I can't turn the preamp up over 3 without getting constant falsing or the detector will not detect anything at all.
In my research on the XLT, I found the 9 XLT youtube videos from whites. They do a great job at going over all the features in more depth than the manual does. After watching them, I got the idea to try turning the transmit boost off and see if that would allow for more preamp gain. Using Relic mode as the base, I turned transmit boost off and gain up all the way. It worked with a little more falsing than I can deal with so I turned down the AC to the halfway point and the detector calmed down and appeared to work smoothly. After hunting a couple of hours, I seemed to find coins at roughly the same depths as I was with the boost on and the preamp on 2. I did dig a penny at 5 1/2 inches but I am still not sure yet if it is a better or worse program than what I was doing before.
Any others here tried this or have some ideas of what can do to tweak this program? I know, I need to make a test garden but until then any suggestions are appreciated.
I am a Tesoro guy that bought an XLT about 6 weeks ago. Like many of you, I mainly hunt for silver coins. I am trying to find deep silver in the local parks and the ground here appears to have heavy mineralization. Most of the parks around me (Wash DC area) are in creek flood zones and the ground is sandy with a lot of round river rocks in it. I have tested it using the DC phase and get a reading anywhere from 75 to 93. How do you tell if you are reading the ground and not something in the ground? I know 93 is a bad number but at what number is the ground OK?
Another reason I think the ground is bad is because most other deep silver programs people post on the internet put my detector into overload. Also, I can't turn the preamp up over 3 without getting constant falsing or the detector will not detect anything at all.
In my research on the XLT, I found the 9 XLT youtube videos from whites. They do a great job at going over all the features in more depth than the manual does. After watching them, I got the idea to try turning the transmit boost off and see if that would allow for more preamp gain. Using Relic mode as the base, I turned transmit boost off and gain up all the way. It worked with a little more falsing than I can deal with so I turned down the AC to the halfway point and the detector calmed down and appeared to work smoothly. After hunting a couple of hours, I seemed to find coins at roughly the same depths as I was with the boost on and the preamp on 2. I did dig a penny at 5 1/2 inches but I am still not sure yet if it is a better or worse program than what I was doing before.
Any others here tried this or have some ideas of what can do to tweak this program? I know, I need to make a test garden but until then any suggestions are appreciated.