Charles (Upstate NY)
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On my last hunt I began experimenting with conductive tones as part of my plan this season and noticed something damn odd right off the bat.
I was running iron mask at -10 and got a signal which was ID'ing with the cursor half off the top of the screen around the silver dime range some some bouncing towards the left. Hmmm I switch to Ferrous tones and thats when things got weird.
In ferrous tones the cursor changed both behavior and position. The cursor was now half off the right side of the screen just below where silver halfs ID and exhibited the classic iron bounce pattern.
I switched back and forth between ferrous and conductive tones a few times while circling this target and this held true. I dug the target and it was a square nail. I tested this on a few more nails in the area and got the same result.
Now the question of the day is, why would the cursor location change when switching from Ferrous to Conductive tones? And we are talking about quite a significant change in location.
I remember a few years ago guys were posting charts of where coins hit and it was observed that indian head cents seemed to ID at different locations on the screen, for some guys they ID'd quite a ways left of where they ID'd on other peoples screens. Now I'm wondering if this is due to ferrous versus conductive tones.
It would seem that cursor ID is somehow tied to conductive versus ferrous, I don't really need to know the specifics of the Explorer inner workings but I will be exploring this to see if there is some advantage we can exploit. I'll just throw something out there, maybe the Explorer will go deeper on silver using conductive tones versus ferrous? The conductivity of a target seems the stronger of the two e.g. deep semi-iffy targets don't bounce up and down much but do bounce left and right quite a bit.
Just some food for thought people.
I was running iron mask at -10 and got a signal which was ID'ing with the cursor half off the top of the screen around the silver dime range some some bouncing towards the left. Hmmm I switch to Ferrous tones and thats when things got weird.
In ferrous tones the cursor changed both behavior and position. The cursor was now half off the right side of the screen just below where silver halfs ID and exhibited the classic iron bounce pattern.
I switched back and forth between ferrous and conductive tones a few times while circling this target and this held true. I dug the target and it was a square nail. I tested this on a few more nails in the area and got the same result.
Now the question of the day is, why would the cursor location change when switching from Ferrous to Conductive tones? And we are talking about quite a significant change in location.
I remember a few years ago guys were posting charts of where coins hit and it was observed that indian head cents seemed to ID at different locations on the screen, for some guys they ID'd quite a ways left of where they ID'd on other peoples screens. Now I'm wondering if this is due to ferrous versus conductive tones.
It would seem that cursor ID is somehow tied to conductive versus ferrous, I don't really need to know the specifics of the Explorer inner workings but I will be exploring this to see if there is some advantage we can exploit. I'll just throw something out there, maybe the Explorer will go deeper on silver using conductive tones versus ferrous? The conductivity of a target seems the stronger of the two e.g. deep semi-iffy targets don't bounce up and down much but do bounce left and right quite a bit.
Just some food for thought people.