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DeepTech

Deleon depth readings and Al

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saika

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Can someone else verify if this is happening to them also? I seem to have noticed that depth readings bounce a lot more when pinpointing a piece of aluminium than anything else, pulltabs included.
 
Don't know if it helps but last night I was using my machine and kept getting a 95 silver/coin but the depth went from 6 to 9 and in between. I got to between 8 and 9 inches measured and found a strainer basket for a coffe pot! Al of course. Then I kept getting goofy depth readings with every pull tab and Al can I dug (dug three complete intact cans and three mangled ones!) The complete cans told me 95 silver/coin at 9 inches deep and they were between one and three inches deep! the shredded one varied.
 
Thanks, what you are seeing is exactly what I noticed. A full sized can or large pice always reads shallower than it is. It is the mangled and pulltabs that were wierd also with the floating depth readings but tab VDI.

Thanks.
 
From what I have read, the center section, with the graph style indicators, give extra information that has to be used in conjunction with the VDI scale.

I made a trade and have a Deleon coming to me. But I have been reading about how it ID's buried metal.
 
The bars really help, but, it is a balancing act of: the sound quality, the bars, the VDI and the stability of the depth readings.

This is a fun, fun, fun machine to use. SOmebody once said to cover the display for the first while and just hunt with it as if it were a beep dig unit. It does help quite a bit following that advice.
 
I had a Bandido uMax, so I know Tesoro without the display. It will be fun to see how much the display adds to the sound detection.
 
Well my personal policy is Dig everything except an iron signal less than 15. I have FINALLY gotten that through the head of my XLT friend and he now has 3 rings to show for this philosophy! I haven't been able to get out much lately but I am planning on it next week. Too much rain!!
 
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