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Garrett 150- thoughts and help
- Thread starter RebOne
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Get out and use it. Dig all repeatable targets. After a while you'll get to know it real well.
If the display jumps around and the audio isnt solid, its trash.
Keep the SENS turned down to 5, at first. IT is sensitive and will give false readings and "spurious" responses if the gain is too high.
It's a Garrett and its designed to do one thing well: signal when there is metal present below the coil. When it does so, investigate.
David
If the display jumps around and the audio isnt solid, its trash.
Keep the SENS turned down to 5, at first. IT is sensitive and will give false readings and "spurious" responses if the gain is too high.
It's a Garrett and its designed to do one thing well: signal when there is metal present below the coil. When it does so, investigate.
David
I would go to a junior high or high school with a screwdriver in my hand, and practice-practice-practice in the grass, where there should be lots of coins. Get good at figuring out where the target is relative to the moving coil. Probe the grass trying to find all the targets. So what if you dig up junk too! We all do it anyways, we just don't include in the photographs. Both you and your machine need to get to know each other well. This takes time. I wouldn't even use a digger for the first several hours, as you will end up digging too many too large holes, which creates problems. Now if you are near a beach and don't get snow like many of us, buy/build a sand scoop and start searching. I would set my bars at about the half way point for sensitivity and run in the jewellery mode in the grass and all metal in the sand. You will eventually see a pattern developing where certain types of targets sound the same. This is something you have to learn, as it's hard to describe. 
Good luck Rick! Any wife who buys her husband a metal detector is a wonderful wife.
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Good luck Rick! Any wife who buys her husband a metal detector is a wonderful wife.
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Uncle Willy
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Study the instructions then tape some coins and junk items ( pulltabs-bottlecaps )spaced several inches apart to a fair-sized piece of cardboard, turn the cardboard over, then scan over it and locate and pinpoint the coins and other items. Use something sharp like an ice pick to probe through the cardboard to see if you have centered and pinpointed the coin. Learning the pinpoint procedure is the most important thing since the 150 has no pinpoint button on it.
Best way to do this after you have located a target is to scan side to side in very short strokes over the target as you move the coil straight back until the instant the signal stops. The target then will be under the front center tip of the inside oval on the coil.
Bill
Best way to do this after you have located a target is to scan side to side in very short strokes over the target as you move the coil straight back until the instant the signal stops. The target then will be under the front center tip of the inside oval on the coil.
Bill
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