depth and recovery!

[arpadhaz]

http://www.garysdetecting.co.uk/energymax_review.htm
this test is very interesting!
that says with slow recovery you can go deeper and its better on highly mineralized soil!
the slow recovery might not good for iron infected sites but otherwise has advantage!
any opinion?

 

[Bill in Texas]

Man, I wish that I lived in a area as old as the UK. Just think of the possibilities. The town (Kerrville Texas) where I live was settled in the late 1800's and had only grown to about 5000 in 1975. There is not many old sights left that have not been covered over by new construction. The ones that are, are off limits or hunted to death. There are no sand beaches here. The river where everybody swims is full of gravel about golf ball to softball size and to quote another hunter that lived here "the rocks grow right out of the ground". They have drained a lake on the river for repairs, so I have been looking at that area with about 50 other hunters. I don't know where they all came from. Cheers from Bill in Texas PS 16 years ago I lived in Waco (now that is a good place to hunt).

 

[Southwind]

I don't agree. While proper sweep speed is important, a slow sweep speed isn't best for all detectors or ground conditions.

 

[arpadhaz]

you just have problams with the basics southwind?
who was talking about sweepspeed?????????
recovery speed is related with ironmask effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhpMMNfslQ

 

[Southwind]

No I don't have a problem with the basics, but I do seem to have had a problem misinterpreting the term "slow recovery." Some how I read it as sweep speed, and I don't think a slow sweep speed gives better depth. My bad. I didn't take it as slow recovery speed.

As far as recovery speed, it obviously plays a role in any kind of masking be it iron or other wise, but I don't get how a slower recover speed equals better depth.

 

[Bill in Texas]

This is the way I understand this topic. Recovery speed is the time or distance that a machine takes to ID two different targets under the same sweep. I have always called it the machines reflex speed. There are several things that slow a machine recovery speed. 1st there is circuit design. 2nd is how many things does the circuit have to analyze (meters and etc.). 3rd is at how slow of a sweep speed will a machine read a target well. There are other factors, but I think these are the main ones. A machine that will sweep slowly and have a fast circuit recovery time between targets, will normally work better in a trashy environment. This is why I hunt most of the time (not all) with a machine that does not have a meter on it. I put a very high priority on recovery speed where I hunt most of the time. I believe that there is no perfect machine for all types of hunting (no matter what the manufactures say). One of the main priorities in picking a machine is, how much time and effort does a person want to spend before he is proficient a certain machine. Bells and whistles speed up this learning time, but might be a problem in trashy areas. One of the best MD hunters that I ever knew was a person that had been using the same machine for many years that did not even discriminate, but he could tell you the size, depth and possible target with a uncanny ability. Monte could go a lot deeper into this topic than I (I think he already has somewhere). Bill in Texas

 

[arpadhaz]

I dont know either why a unit deeper if the recovery is slower but according to this gary guy who actually know lots about detectors yes!!!!!!tahts why i showed you the link because i am wondening myself to!