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Ground balancing 1270

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samadhi82

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Hey!

I have just bought a 1270 on ebay in exellent codition. I have tried it for a couple of times and it is very deep. BUT I got problems in certain places, It beeps for anything and give a lot of signals at hot rocks and some soiltypes. How do I ground balance it, and do I have to do this every time I use it? Im a little bit new in this game... I have used a 1212x for many years ago.

Regards from Norway!
 
From the manual:

3. ALL METAL GROUND ADJUST:
Turning this control clockwise, out of its OFF position (0), allows you to
operate in the All-Metal mode and adjust the 1270 to compensate for
various ground mineral conditions. In this All-Metal mode, all DISC mode
control settings will be ignored, but can be momentarily re-engaged
without changing the GROUND setting by pushing the MODE TRIGGER
switch forward (the DISC mode engaged will be the one that is presently
set on the panel controls). Turning the GROUND ADJ. control fully
counterclockwise into its OFF position will return the unit to the DISC mode
set on the panel controls.
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You don't have any ground balance when running disc.

You may try backing down the sensitivity a little to get rid of some of the noise.

Ron in WV
 
Thank you! :) I think I have to spend some time getting used to it...Its very sensitive. Im going out in the woods using it now.By the way, how do you like the machine? And do you got any tips?
 
I don't have the 1270 now, I traded it for a CZ-3D.
But the 1270 was a good machine, I really liked to crank up the disc and just look for the silver coins.

Ron in WV
 
Im back from the woods...and guess what! I found a Danish "skilling"(silver coin) from 1728 at ca 8" ... after just 5min with searching on a old road. Areally good start!!!
 
WOW, and congrats,

Looks like the student just became the teacher. Keep in mind the 1270 is a pretty serious machine.

Did you get a manual with your machine? If not I can send a PDF copy, but I would need your email address.

I have been hunting since the mid 70's and my oldest coin was a large cent 1818.

Well done,
Ron in WV
 
Thank you :)

I found the pdf-file on the internet a couple of hours ago. But thanks anyway.

Yes I was very surprised when I did see what i had found... I was sure that it was a coin from 20th century. 1728 is a rare find in Norway also I think. Very fun!!! I really hope I will get the potensial out of the 1270 after some hours searching.

Regards!
 
One thing that you may want to keep in mind about the 1270 that isn't in the manual, you can run the disc up to max and she doesn't lose any depth on silver coins. Over here in the US the 1270 will run pretty good around 8 on the sensitivity.

Also you may want to watch for a coil, my favorite was the 5 x 10 elliptical. It gave me about the depth as the std 8" coil but the ground coverage of a 10". If you want it punch a little deeper watch for 10 1/2" but it is not the best if you have a lot of trash.

Also if you ever get hooked up with a forum member by the name of shooter, he is the man when it comes to the 1270. He sent me all kinds of tips as to how to handle the 1270. He still uses one and he can make it sing.

Keep us posted from time to time as to how you are doing,

Ron in WV USA
 
Shooter here, anything I can help you with ask away. Between WV62 and me there's plenty info available. First read the manual, especially the primary and secondary setups that' s the key. the 1270 is a powerhouse that not many people took advantage of. She will go extremely deep with all 3 of the coils, 5", 8" and 10.5, the 5" is awesome in trashy areas, Disc. is very, very good, I'd have to say i like the Disc on the 1270 better then the F-75, getting back to the 2 mode setup as far as the ALL Metals mode 2 places I'd use it 1. Relic hunting (and for where you live ) WW2 Relics. 2. Coinshooting in an almost trash free area, she will find real deep coins in that scenario. WV62 is right there with high SEN. to much SEN. and the threshold noise might bother your ears 8 maybe 9 will do fine., if you can't quiet her down just drop it a little at a time. Also to high of a VOL. will give off noise so set your headphone up and for me VOL "8" works great and I have a hearing problem max VOL will also give threshold tones.

My preferred setups are for coins: Lets call primary mode #1 and Secondary #2

Sen. 8-9
DISC. 5 (must pick up nickels to also get the gold) Don't know what coin in Norway is equal to a nickel, but to keep gold just about a "5" or a little less.
VOL- 8
#1 mode IRON Switch on and IRON DISC MAX.
#2 Disc mode (you can adjust the Disc higher then 5 if pull tabs are to many.
Note: When you get a signal in the Iron you have already DISC. out SMALL iron objects, now go over it in #2 Disc mode by holding the toggle switch that puts you in the DISC mode and if you get a audio response most likely she's a good target so DIG-IT.

Well it's 2:00 am here so I'll give you some more info tomorrow. Hope this helps some.
 
Thank you very much to the both of you! :) I really appreciate this.

Im new to the 1270 and I see that it is a machine wich need some practice to know. But I now got the whole summer to learn knowing the beauty, before the snow makes Norwegian ground white again. And my motivation did absolutly grow a lot this weekend when I found the almost 300
years old danish "skilling" at 8", with a nice smooth signal.

Im will write on the forum if I find some interesting (deep) relics and coins :)

Again, thank you very much!
 
Hey shooter! :)

I think my detector or coil is in bad condition, because it does not discriminate good, and beeps at very many rocks. I also expirience that sometimes the soil give signals, and when I dig it will dissapear. This is very frustrating. When I read what you have wrote about the 1270 and also other reviews, I see that it have to be something wrong with my detector :( I have also read that you think it is a very good disc on it, and thats not what it have showed me. I really want to expirence the power of the 1270 myself to. I think I gonna try to buy another coil. Any good advices?

Best regards
Hallvard
 
Flip your silent switch on!! And try it! You may be in some bad ground and ground minerals will cause false signals!! Also don't use the all metal mode cut it off.
 
Thank you :)

I have tried it in almost all settings. It also beeps at rocks when it is in silent-mode and 10 in disc. in 90% of the digging i have done it is rocks or just soil wich make the signal dissapear when after a little digging... Can this be a coil-problem you think?

Regards
H
 
It could be a bad coil. Have you got a coil cover on it? If you do take it off and clean it and the coil bottom, sometimes that will cause falsing. It's a pain to remove the coil cover without breaking it so try to be careful removing it. Another thing that can cause your problems is electrical lines are you in a area where there is a lot of power lines?
 
I tried to take of the coil-cover a couple of days ago, it was some dirt between the coil and cover, and i thought this was the reason. It wasnt :( Yesterday I was out detecting, and then i also got the problem with beeping for everything. This was deep in the woods with no powerlines. It seem like it love rocks and cant disc rusty iron-items when it is in the soil...sometimes just the soil make it beep...

Regards
Hallvard
 
Hallvard does anyone around you use a 1235-1265-1266-1270 Fisher detector if so try and borrow their coil and see if it fixes the problem your having if so it's definetly your coil if not it you may have to send the whole detector to Fisher for service.
 
Your welcome that's what this forum is all about people helping people and sharing tips and tactics in a great hobby!
 
Tonight i have searched a beach i all-metal/ground balance as primary mode, and disc at 5 as second mode. The machine was a lot more silence then. So my conclusion to my problem is that the preset groundbalance in disc have to be wrong in most of my soiltypes here in Norway. But i think the machine was working nice this evening in all-metal mode and if i got a target I checked it with the svitch :) Found a couple of new coins... It was so nice to not hear a lot of beeps, just some nice clean one when i did get a nice hit :)
 
I am not sure if this is true or not, but I was thinking the 1270 had some type of auto ground tracking and was not a preset GB. Maybe somebody can research that.

Ron in WV
 
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