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What do you think was happening with my new V3.
First I would consider myself an expert detectorist with 31 years experience with all whites machines. My latest is the DFX with D2 coil.
I went out for the first time after playing with and reading everything I could find on the Internet about the V3. When I loaded the stock Coin/Jewelry program the V3 went crazy sounding off with the stock D2 coil in the air. I reduced the RX Gain from 8 to 2 and Discrimination to 78 and it became stable. I ground balanced and checked ground balance. I then checked the sensitivity probe. It read Signal 8%, Noise 0.1 and RX recommendation of 15. I thought that this feature was to help find the best settings for the area? Why was it so off 2 from 15. The area has a normal power line about 150 yards from where I was. The site is a rural little town with a church, school, post office, a half dozen houses, and two bar and grills. A half mile away is a gravel pit. I was hunting the church yard, the house next to the church has aluminum siding on it . I noticed I did not find anything more than 4.5 inches down which was a nickle and a few shallow clad coins. This site dates back to late 1800's and is my first time hunting it after finally gaining permission. Other observations were a lot of nulling in the threshold which means trash and when the coil would bump something it would sound off. I also noticed on shallow coins I could not get the analyze waves to be nice and consistent to indicate a good target even-though the sound and VDI were good. After 2 hours hunting I went home which is a half mile from the site and tested it in my yard. I was able to run RX at 15 and Disc. at 80. I did a few air test and it worked perfect. Does anyone with experience with the V3 have any thoughts. Thank You.
First I would consider myself an expert detectorist with 31 years experience with all whites machines. My latest is the DFX with D2 coil.
I went out for the first time after playing with and reading everything I could find on the Internet about the V3. When I loaded the stock Coin/Jewelry program the V3 went crazy sounding off with the stock D2 coil in the air. I reduced the RX Gain from 8 to 2 and Discrimination to 78 and it became stable. I ground balanced and checked ground balance. I then checked the sensitivity probe. It read Signal 8%, Noise 0.1 and RX recommendation of 15. I thought that this feature was to help find the best settings for the area? Why was it so off 2 from 15. The area has a normal power line about 150 yards from where I was. The site is a rural little town with a church, school, post office, a half dozen houses, and two bar and grills. A half mile away is a gravel pit. I was hunting the church yard, the house next to the church has aluminum siding on it . I noticed I did not find anything more than 4.5 inches down which was a nickle and a few shallow clad coins. This site dates back to late 1800's and is my first time hunting it after finally gaining permission. Other observations were a lot of nulling in the threshold which means trash and when the coil would bump something it would sound off. I also noticed on shallow coins I could not get the analyze waves to be nice and consistent to indicate a good target even-though the sound and VDI were good. After 2 hours hunting I went home which is a half mile from the site and tested it in my yard. I was able to run RX at 15 and Disc. at 80. I did a few air test and it worked perfect. Does anyone with experience with the V3 have any thoughts. Thank You.
He called White's and they replaced the coil, he said all is well now. Do you have another coil to try? It could be any DFX/MXT/M6 coil.
