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exterra 50 question

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ffighter71

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I bought a new exterra 50 last year, it seems like i only find things only a few inches deep. My friend has a whites dfx? and he is finding coins and trinkets at 5 to 6 in deep, i would go first and get no response on my detector, no faint noises or no numbers, he would follow me with his and find items a 5 to 6 inch deep. I buried a quarter 5 inches deep and used my detector and got no responses. Is the standard coil that comes with this suppose to be picking these items up, i guess im frustrated with all the time i put in knowing all the coins i passed up at 5 to 6 in deep. makes me want to get a whites. any help would be appreciated.

brian
 
Brian,
I live on the Texas Gulf coast and have no problems with depth on my XT50. I have found dimes at a measured 5" and still get a soft tone a couple of inches off the ground. Our soil here is very mild so that may be part of your problem, just make sure you are ground balanced correct and run the sens as high as you can, I can run mine at 18 with no problem and even 20 in alot of the areas around here. The stock coil should do fine, I use the 10.5" DD 7.5khz coil 40% of the time and the 6" HF 60% of the time. With the 6" coil I can still find the deep dimes but have to slow down my sweeps alot. Hope this helps. John
 
You must have a problem 5" dimes are no problem for my Xterra 50..in fact 7-8" inch Indian heads are no problem..Check your coil, or check your ground balance...I have dug measured 9" barber quarters...
 
Then we can go from there.
Cheers!
 
That sure doesn't sound right. As Nugget suggested, post your settings. It sounds like you have the Sensitivity set way too low or something else is wrong. A quarter at 5" should blow your headphones off. The X-Terra will detect neck-to-neck with the DFX, so don't jump ship just yet. Ron
 
Thanks for the help guys, I live in Illinois so I am waiting for the weather to break so I can go back out and try again, I know the higher I set the sensitivity it seems like I cant make one sweep with out picking up 5 different signals so I have to tone the sensitivity down, this may be part of my problem. i ground balance it, who knows i may be doing that wrong, what is the proper way to ground balance , i was told in illinois we have a lot of iron in the soil. Is there any books dedicated to the exterras or videos that show some tips on ground balance sensitivity etc. when i buried the quarter five inches i set the sensitivity up high in the upper teens and it never picked up anything, I will wait until weather breaks and go out and give some numbers back to you guys and maybe we can figure this out. thanks for the help

brian
 
Brian,

This is one of those instances where an Air Test can help you. Look at the following link, and when it opens look at the first table of figures. This is an X50 Air Test with the detector settings listed at the bottom of the table. Perform this test outdoors away from any interference or metal. Take your watch off!:lol: Or any other metal you are wearing. Compare your results to the table, if they are way off, then you have a detector issue.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,290751,290751#msg-290751

HH
BarnacleBill
 
To help combat your soil type you might want to invest or at least try out a DD coil, it will make a difference. Everyone here will do there best to help solve your problem, just hang in there like Bill said or was that Ron? hehehehe.
Cheers!
 
You say that your friend goes behind you and finds target 5 to 6 inches deep. Maybe your friend is just getting his coil over the targets where you missed them? Have you let your friend locate a target first then sweep your coil over it? Maybe your coil technique isn't as good as your friends? Sweep speed, overlap, tight to the ground and level all the way through your sweep is key. Lot's of detectors have trouble finding freshly buried coins. Make a test garden and let it season for a while to test your detector. :thumbup:
 
yes my friend would get a hit and say im registering a dime, I would sweep over it, criss cross it in all directions and get nothing, he would dig it 5 in bam.

i dont know if im not ground balanced right or what if anything im doing wrong
 
Ground balance settings are important, very important. At five inches if you ground balance properly, you should get a signal on a dime even with a sens. at 12-14.
Let your partner hit a target. Use auto GB near (but not on the target), use the stock coin mode first. If no signal then use the all metal mode. If still no signal, there may be a problem with the unit.

Others have asked, but to really help we need your settings. The best thing to do is follow the manuals instructions to reset all settings to factory defaults, then go from there. Again, a dime at 5 inches should register, if the unit is GB properly, with no other adjustments. Especially if your partner is using his DFX with a stock program. If he is using some exotic settings, specifically for bad ground, we need to know to help. Get back to us when the weather breaks.

Dave in NJ
 
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