Good news... (fingers crossed)

[jbow]

I called FT customer support while I had the T2 in hand and running. The first thing they told me to try fixed it... He said to wiggle the connection where the coil cable connects to the box. I did and it immediately began to GC correctly. The connection was not loose but somehow that fixed it. I hope it stay's fixed. The tID still jumps around a bit but it stay's more in the correct range now. The bad part is that it began to rain as soon as I got it working.
I'll try it more in a while.

Yaaaaaa...

J

 

[earthmansurfer]

What a relief Jbow. Good luck playing with your detector. The worst is over, glad you survived.

Earthmansurfer

 

[jbow]

What a frustrating mess but I still found two belt buckles and a scabbard tip. However, it is a good site, the tip was laying on top if the ground and the two buckles, (not plates) were within ten ft of a spot that produced 9 minnies. I can't wait to hit the place again but it will have to wait a couple of weeks for me to get back from the BEACH!!!!

I have been hunting the site with a SovGT and a Tejon and took a friend with an MXT... he found the 9 minnies but I have found LOT's of stuff there. The site dates to the 1830s and was both a Confederate and Yankee hospital. I even found a Sutler's token there. I also found a mule shoe there with the T2 with it acting up so i really think it is going to be as good a machine as the GT... I hope... and much lighter!

Thanks for all the help!

J

 

[Mike Hillis]

Stick with it, jbow!

What a rocky start you had

Hopefully that is over and now you can get down to learning the alien

Let me tell you a little story. Last spring I was air testing the T2 using a dime. With a sensitivity setting of 85 I was getting about 7 to 7-1/2" in disc mode on the dime. Pretty much normal for a quality machine. I buried that dime in some of my 'normal' dry sand at the same depth. This stuff ground canceled at 92 with a .3 FE3O4 reading. I had to raise my sensitivity 10 points, to a 95 to pick up that dime consistantly with a id. I didn't think that was bad at all for that ground and a fresh buried coin. But give a dime a week to interact with the sand and I can pick up a dime at the same depth and deeper with the sensitivity in the high sixties/low seventies. I hardly ever pulled deep coins out of that stuff until I got the T2. Now its a regular story to pull 7, 8, 9 inch coins from that sand, including other goodies. A friend named Pineapple was hunting his Georgia dirt with sensitivity settings in the upper middle fifties and was getting the same depth and better. His ground cancel numbers were simular to yours and he had lower FE3O4 readings. What I'm saying is that when you can run it hot, go for it, but where you can't don't be afraid to turn it down. It does better than it air tests.

HH

Mike