Glenn and ALL

[Anonymous]

Glenn and All,
I have found this to be an interesting detection method. Use the edit screen to reject a nickel. Go to edit and reduce the rejected area to the smallest black dot you can achieve. Save this and then go to detect and expand the screen. Now sweep the nickel and we will see that the crosshairs will indicate where the black dot for the nickel is located. The nickel is still detected but the black dot

 

[Anonymous]

simply amazing!!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Cody,
I think that you left out a couple of steps in your explanation. Does the following sequence produce the pattern you are looking for?
THE TECHNIQUE THAT I USE
#1 Use the Edit screen to create a black screen. Then press the Detect button.
#2 Set the sensitivity to 15 reduce the effects of noise in the following step
#3 Switch to the X1 probe to allow for a very clean pattern of where nickels hit.
#4 Use the Learn screen to accept the nickels.
#5 Press the Detect button. At this point you have the nickel only pattern.
#6 Save the nickels only pattern in one of the six slots.
After having done this you can of Minelab's very powerful Select Menu which allows the user to create a wide variety of patterns. This is done by either placing check or X mark (or leaving the box blank) on any/all of the items shown in the Select menu.
MY PERSONAL OPINION
I do not think that I would tighten up the accpet pattern for the nickel beyond that obtained by the Learn process. The reason for this opinion is that the resulting pattern is already very tight.
What are your thoughts on this.
HH,
Glenn

 

[Anonymous]

I did not go into this at length because I knew you would understand the concept and thought that most folks that are interested in making their own patterns would also be comfortable with the learn and edit functions.
I agree with you and have a post ready on how to use the larger rejection square in learn for tabs and then the smallest one for accepting gold rings. I use this for any targets I want to accept and reject using the larger and smallest squares. It produces the fat U shape I have posted before. I use edit to increase the dip in the U so I clearly hear the ring and get a broken or completely rejected sound on the tab. I then used iron next to the gold ring to see where it will skew if in heavy minerals. It takes some time to pull this together but ends up with a very nice pattern. I am going by how much and what I have after a days hunt to evaluate the results instead of being concerned if miss something.
I really like your method but don't use the X-1 as I had a Uniprobe before I thought about an X-1. It is easy to switch the Uniprobe from one detector to another and at the time I purchased the probe I had about 10 detectors or so that I was testing.
You are right on in that it is important to not get a smaller acceptance pattern area than the small learn accept square. I will test the pattern to make sure I am not carving away on it more than I should or at least try to make sure.
HH, Cody