F5 and electrical interference, an observation

[Mike Hillis]

I've noticed a peculiar aspect of the F5 as it relates to electrical interference.

On my last hunt I noticed that my machine chattered while held still. But when in motion it stopped chattering and ran stable. My gain and threshold settings were 50 and +5. Now I could stop the chattering by lowering the threshold to -4. But since it ran perfectly fine when the coil was in motion I left the settings as they were. The only draw back was that I had to listen to it while I recovered a target. I did find a use for it, though. When I hit patches of ground with no signals I would stop the coil every now and then to make sure my headphones were plugged in securely

I suspect that the F5 uses the ground signal to overcome minor electrical interference.

HH

Mike

 

[dahut]

n/t

 

[Kos]

Hey Mike,

What would have happened if you set the gain a lot lower. Did you happen to try it?

KOS

 

[Mike Hillis]

Hi Kos,

When I set up I was setting for the ground. Once I realized what was going on I did play with gain and threshold and either could make the F5 stable while held waist high in the air. But it ran so well on the ground with the higher settings that I put it back on them (50, +5)

Performance was not affected. I was still hitting on small non-ferrous targets.

They are doing something different with the F5 and I like it.

HH

Mike