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Help but a Merc to 8 inches....

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I found a clean piece of ground ran the noise cancel and stuck a merc 6 inches down. 19/20/21 manual, 8 gain, IM-12 and using the stock 10.5 coil. I had a semi good hit. The signal sounded good high silver sound. But would jump back and forth from a quarter inch left the right corner to about a quarter inch low of the right corner. I then put the dime down to 8 inches the the sound was a little lower and hit on the screen about a quarter inch left of the right corner then over to the left. The sound would drop and come back. I did this in another location with the same results. At 4 inches solid right upper corner good sound. Is there something wrong with my unit? Or is this the normal with a newly buried coin no halo?
 
Dan,
I think this is normal, one reason is when you burried the dime you have intoduced air into the ground which we all know the Minelabs hate air and wont have the depth it normaly would. I think it showed good for a freshy burried coin.
On these deep ones many are getting the tone will be there, but it is small and and if you were going too fast you wouldnt hear them, so will just be a slight chirp of a high pitched signal and with wiggleing the coil over it it will get better. On the crosshairs not reading in the correct location is that the signal may not be hitting in the hot spot of the coil as you can see on air test too. This is where I try to get the tip of the coil over the area the target is and try to get my best signal and target location, then turn 90 degrees and try again.
I was doing a air test on the new XS 2 last nite and seen where the digital display would change in both the ferrous and the conductivity numbers depending on where on the coil you ran the target by, got the most accruate on the tip of the coil in front of the Minelab decal.
I go by the tones first and how repeatable, then the crosshairs and when in doubt I always dig which I do dig a lot of rusty nails, but also got some nice deep coins too.
I think when you accualy find a coin at 8-10 inches you wil see it will probably be a better signal and crosshair location, but will bounce around a bit too.
Rick
 
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