everything is a neckel

[junkhunter]

I was in a resurfaced or back filled park today.Over top of coal ash,with a little asfault mixed in.Everything was a pull tab or neckel on sweeps.Now the scan was a bit more accurate.And when i did a demo for a kid the quarter said a quarter.I generally go by audio,this unit likes to use the screen and make very little audio difference unlike my xlt.I basicaly dug all the solid neckels.not one coin.lots of pull tabs.and a few tiny aluminum buttons.And some coal slag.Pinpointing was also nearly impossible.items should be off the shaft but they were all over the place.I do think their were some steel plates or rail road iron in dirt.I opened up a dozen or so holes somone else dug a while back too.I just dont get what the deal was with my unit and this place.I guess i should have grabbed my xlt and tried.This thing kills me on audio,i generaly am watching were im walking due to mostly relic hunting.Is their anyway to get audio id more accurate?This has got to be the noisiest unit i ever used.I have goten coins up to 2 feet down.And even dug a frag of a shell down under 2feet of bricks.but both my tdi and xlt are much better at pinpointing.(havnt learned depth on tdi yet though)

 

[Rob (IL)]

I don't understand if you are asking anything. My V pinpoints as well as any Whites detector I have owned. Is your VCO turned on?

My threshold and detector run smooth and quiet. Have you set you tones?

I've never found a 2ft deep coin with any detector. What were you using.

I dug 12 nickels yesterday. I get just as many as I did with my MXT.

 

[jbow]

Make sure "Tone ID" is on. In the stock Coin and Jewelry program Tome ID is off.

I have one site that is across from the site of a very old RR depot. It is the lawn of a Victorian home. The lawn is so full of cinder that most targets don't register on any detector i've used (I have not had the chance to try a pulse unit). I even buried 4 coins. I just inserted my Lesche hand digger at about a 45 degree angle, wiggled a little, dropped a coin in the slot and then pushed it down a little bit with the digger. Using 5 different machines all of the coins except one completely disappeared, they didn't sound wrong or give a bad VDI response... they gave no sound and no number at all.

Some sites are just not going to allow you to hunt with a VLF machine. It sounds like yours is one of those type places... there may be a way to set the V3 to better hunt a site like this but I don't know what it would be. If I were you I would try finding some promising targets with the TDI, mark them and see what the V3 tells you.. it may be that the ground is skewing every VDI.

The ground balance may be radically changing back and forth every few feet there. Have you used the frequency offset to check for EMI? What kind of signal loss are you getting using the ground probe? Have you tried a single frequency? Lower disc sensitivity or lower RX?

It sounds like a very challenging site but the V3 should do more than the XLT, it should be better on a site like that with the D2 or 4x6 coil (or an SEF 8x6).

Good luck! BTW... where do you live?

J

 

[junkhunter]

tone says +,tone id is on,threshhold speaker is at 40,i dont use the wireless headphones they were to noisy

on sensitivity settings rx gain at 7,boost off,discrimination is at 55,bottle cap and hot rock reject is off and ground filter is at 10.hz

its set at 3 frequency,and autotrack on at normal,ther is no vco button like on my xlt screen.and i am not sure what you mean by set tones.i thought they were pre set?this unit was upgraded to a v3i at whites in oregon when i was their.i dug a lot of coal ash with xlt at pa easly going well over a foot on targets.Breast plate at 2 feet in ash dump and a fuse in a swamp in nc over 2 feet(had frag all over starting at a foot,may not have normally dug the reading otherwise)The deepest target with v3i was 2 feet on the shell frag witch was a very large size of your hand chunk.Got 5 wheat pennies in a row 6 to 18 inches down but top soil was powder.signal was lousy but solid so i dug the targets.A lot of times a dig based on size of target.Most of the deeper coins seemed to be quarters that got burried by plowing.this seems to work best in relic mode.I wasnt using it in park though.I did have a dfx when they came out but never liked it.Xlt blew it away when relic hunting.It was good for canadian park hunting and beach hunting.And thats all i used it for after a while.Xlt was terrible in the start with relics,i could be standing on a frag and it wouldnt even sputter.Then some one gave me a program,found tons of iron after that.Now v3I seems like that relic program whites figured out iron is a relic. just no good near power lines.I was told to turn off lower frequency and that problem will go away but havnt had a spot like that since i was told.I basically hunt east of the Miss river,TX,OK,MO,MS,and TX.and canada.Used to hunt all 48 but dont run that many states anymore.This park was in OH.