Going deeper with Whites V3-I

[detectordude]

I have a friend who has had the V3-I for some time and is having trouble going deep with it. Yesterday at a club meeting he met a fellow TH'r who also has a V3-I and told my friend that this past weekend he picked up a dime at 10" and some other small item at 8". Well my friend, who was totally overwhelmed, and this other guy compared notes for some time.
I told my friend, who does not do computers, that I would try to get some hot programs from this forum and he could try them out to see if they improved his deep finds. I and he would appreciate any help that you guys would care to offer.

Thanks,
Bill

 

[CyberSage]

Digging coins at depth comes with experience. A good program is a start, but it does not guarantee success by any means. You can take the stock coin and jewelry program and set the Filters to 5Hz Band Pass and set your recovery delay to between 75 and 100. This will get you down a lot further if you swing slow. Deeper coins will sometimes wrap so including + 95 is a must. Consider the correlate mode and using the Wrap setting. Best advice, see if your friend can hook up with the guy who is digging the deep ones for a hunt or two. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Jack

 

[*SodBuster*]

Sounds like the guy he was talking to that found the deep dime is the one that he needs to talk to about helping him set-up his machine. He already has a good program,
he just needs a little advice from some of the club members. Utilize those members, thats what they are there for

 

[*SodBuster*]

Hey Jack !

 

[Southwind]

CyberSage is dead on.

As someone who has tested a fair amount of different detectors for depth ability I can say most people would be surprised to find most all detectors can detect a target at the same depth, it's being able to inform the user of said deep target that differs. I tested the V3i and the other major brand head-to-head and while the V3i could see every deep target the other brand did, the other brand made it just a bit easier to identify it as a good target. The V3i could actually get a tad deeper, but it took experience of the user to know it was a target worth recovering.

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

Ground conditions have a HUGE impact on depth. For months I was detecting a site thinking that I just was not getting anything deep. The soil was a hard packed clay that had been a former farm field. '

One mile up the road was another field and a half dime sounded sweet at more than 9 inches. This soil was well drained sandy loam.

More filters and a faster sweep help at the difficult field.

Other times there is simply nothing deeper. If it ain't there, you can't detect it!

 

[calibil]

I would have to agree, ground conditions do play a great part in depth-along with knowing your machine, some time you just may have to break out your P.I for depth.