finally got out for a few hours with the ATP!

[KCK]

Hunting at a school I've hunted for years with many models. Still don't understand all the speach yet.....but I am finding a lot of quarters I've been missing.These are deeper....around 6-7inches. They are not silvers. Lots of nickels being found and getting the hang of her language. I hate the ATPros penny's at 6-8 inches. ...how did so many get out there that I've been missing? The ATP is one fine machine on land. Most falsing issues are corrected by a decrease in sensitivity. Will be digging posts of trash for a few months until I get the sounds down pat! The arm cuff is too short...that's a common. Hurts the arm after a short time..Garrett should fix that right away! Maybe I'll dunk her this weekend, might as well find out! All in all a good metal detector.
KCK

 

[KCK]

One more thing If you don't want to dig pop cans at 22+ inches. Raise your coil if it still gives a good signal at 12" and 70-90 vdi then it's your choice.....could be that pot of silver?

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Get ya a Gizmo, nice fix for the short-arm cuff problem

 

[KCK]

Here the pic

 

[KCK]

Buuuuut ya know.... Garrett should have done better with this one. Shaft Locks and all! Would have been HIdh quality at the right price!

 

[dahut]

Hunting at a school I've hunted for years with many models. Still don't understand all the speach yet.....but I am finding a lot of quarters I've been missing.These are deeper....around 6-7inches. They are not silvers. Lots of nickels being found and getting the hang of her language. I hate the ATPros penny's at 6-8 inches. ...how did so many get out there that I've been missing? The ATP is one fine machine on land. Most falsing issues are corrected by a decrease in sensitivity. Will be digging posts of trash for a few months until I get the sounds down pat! The arm cuff is too short...that's a common. Hurts the arm after a short time..Garrett should fix that right away! Maybe I'll dunk her this weekend, might as well find out! All in all a good metal detector.
KCK

This sensitivity driven falsing is a Garrett "trademark." If Uncle Willy were here, he'd tell you that these new Garretts are 'sensitivity driven.'
The higher you push the gain (amplification), the more you cause circuit destabilization - chatter, in other words.
That is what SENSITIVITY is, in fact - gain adjustments to the receive circuits.
Detectors do not vary their output power - that is fixed by the FCC. So the receive circuit amplification, or gain, is made adjustable instead.

The goal is to run the SENS as high as you can without chatter annoyance. Note I said, "annoyance."
Everyone is different and can tolerate more or less than the next guy. I crank mine up until it is too much to listen to, then knock it back notch by notch until it just settles down. I run it this way with a little "twitch" in it, so it runs right on the edge between smooth and chattery. But that is me.
Most of time, dropping into the smooth range wont cause an appreciable loss in depth.

Finally, much of your detectors ability to run without noise and chatter has to do with the trash and soil minerals present. If there is a lot trash or minerals, and especially if you are running a lot of discrimination, SENS that is too high will play havoc with your detectors response.
It is always preferred to run less SENS over more, if it increases stability.

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Right you are!! If you like chasing false signals, by all means, crank it up. Like you, I want mine nice and smooth. Anyone who thinks he's "getting it all" by running the Sens. wide open is a poor deluded soul that is probably just as twitchy as the signals he's having to sort thru to find a good keeper.

 

[TreasureHuntersSupply]

very nice amount of cash congrats

 

[leslie]

Just a few of my false signal finds using the A T Pro, Sens at 7 bars Pro Custom Mode Iron Dsc 35

and dig everything 50 and above. "Magic"

No offence intended.

Have Fun and H H.

 

[dahut]

Just a few of my false signal finds using the A T Pro, Sens at 7 bars Pro Custom Mode Iron Dsc 35

and dig everything 50 and above. "Magic"

No offence intended.

Have Fun and H H.

Works for me!

 

[BigCatDaddy]

If they're finds, then they aren't false signals!! Nice pile of loot, I must say. My next question would be, would you have heard them with the Sens. at 4 bars?? I run mine at Zero Disc, Pro Mode Iron disc at 35 in iron laden spots, 20 when there's just a little iron, Sens at 4 bars. I have dug a couple of Buffalo nickles and one v nickle under multiple nails in a nail infested yard of an 1870's house at around 6". I also found a silver coin ring under a pulltab and screw in an exposed lakebed, ring at around 5" I could hear all 3 targets. If I had run my Sens up to near max, the nails, pulltabs and screws would have overrode the V ,buffalos and tiny silver coin ring. Running your Sens up just makes it more sensitive to the first target it hits. If there's a keeper under that pulltab or nail or screw, you'll never hear it, just the junk target on top. By all means, run it with as much as it will alow in your soil and with adjacent targets, but don't sacrifice seperation over what you think is more depth. I would much rather have excellent target seperation over depth any day. This is not my opinion at all. It's what I've heard (and practiced) for years from all the old timers (see Uncle Willy) and they knew what they were talking about. Good hunting all!!