greetings from over the pond and needing help

[daz]

hi all
i am from the uk and i have bought a used laser trident 2 which is the European version of your cibola/vaquero
i am very impressed with your forum and seems you have very helpfull members with great knowledge
i am detecting on ploughed land on roman or medi-evil sites and some of the coins searched for are very small very thin silver coins along with iron nails ranging up to very large iron
i am not new to detecting and have jumped ship a few times but always come back to tesoro ,this (vaquero )is new to me and for me to still detect a small silver hammered coin i have to set my disc between iron and foil but i still cant tell the sound of larger iron against a good target in disc so i end up digging it up (a lot) is this just time needed to distinguish these iron sounds or is there a trick /

also i have just bought a brand new set of predator headphones ,but sometimes they seem to not be letting any sound through the phones but if i pull them out the onboard speaker is working fine ,after some fiddling i can get them to work and the they carry on working throughout my session although nothing seems loose
could this be my phones or the jack on the machine

any advise would be greatly received and look forward to spending time on your great site
thanks daz

 

[Mega]

The only thing that i can suggest is theat as the Preds are new,you may have the small mono/stereo switch on the side of the headphones in the wrong position,its of course just a suggestion and they may have a problem,but as the build quality of them is superb and hard wired i doubt that they actually have a problem.

Almost certain it could be the very small flick switch on the side of one of the cups near the volume control.

I have the Silver Sabre 11 and Laser B3 and they are setup to just knock out small nails,usually that is all that is required,the Tesoro/Laser discrimination is one of the best going on roman and Saxon sites,only very large iron will sound through.

The Trident 2 is one of the best machines on trashy sites for hammered coins.

 

[daz]

thanks mega
yeah i know about the switch
what i meant was that i can start detecting ok knowing my phones are working but if all is quite with no signals i realised that my headphones were no longer working
i had to remove the jack plug a few times then it seemed to work ok for the rest of session

deep iron sounds the same as a good target to me is this just lack of practice with the detector or a potential problem
btw small iron nails are rejected ok at minimum disc and other targets will get knocked out turning disc up

thanks

 

[jld66]

i read somewhere a guy had a new tejon and his phones were messing up. he found that pulling out the jack just a bit solved it. he put some washers on it so the jack did not go in as far, solved it. maybe try that for a laugh.

 

[Rainyday101]

Take the common trash targets you encounter along with one of those thin silver coins and lay them on clean ground. Try to set the disc to just knock out the trash and still hit good on the coin. By just knock out I mean that they may still produce an audible tone, but if so, it should scratchy and partially breaking up. If the trash targets disc out past the thin coin, you are gonna dig trash. As far as larger metal goes it is easy to tell by sizing the target up. With a small coin size target when the coil is passed over it, there is only a small spot on the coil that will produce audio. On a larger size target that sweet spot when you swing over it is much larger. Practice with a coin and larger pieces on the ground. Also with larger metal you can lift the coil while swinging and get a decent audio response way above the ground. This along with the sizing method I mentioned above is a good indication of larger metal. Also when dig up the first two inches and your pinpointer hits good all over in the hole, it's large metal. Anytime I dig and the pinpointer is hitting everywhere in the hole, I fill it in and move on.

I don't know if this info helps you or not, but thought I would throw my 2 cents in and see if I could help.

 

[daz]

thanks rainyday that helps
cheers