How did I do it???

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

Where I live in the Gold Rush area of California the ground can be really tough..And even no I have taken some flak for trying to get my friends V3i to respond the way my G2 does I wanted to try and match it and then push it to go beyond..

So being that it is about in the upper 90 and low 100 all summer long the dirt drys out very fast. And of course the dirt starts to remind me of dirty brown sugar...

Anyway I am using the butterfly coil and have been programing the detector trying to get it to see more targets...I had the same results with the 10DD..I would get alot of sputter sounds on my tones and falsing....I know in the fall and winter when the ground gets some moisture the targets start to come alive...on my other detector.

But I first excepted all of the VDI numbers and gave from -95 up to -6 a 0 tone and then I created four tones for the remaining VDI #..So I listen to no more then four tones alerting me to what I may want to dig...But that didn't make a difference but I kept it like that because that is the way I want my main program to work...

Later after getting tired of the V3i kind of sputtering and not hitting on many targets I started to look at my filter and lowered it to 7.5 band pass then changed my RD to 50 from 39 and changed the coil size to 4x6 and turnded up my RX gain to 10. Then the V3i came alive for me..So the preset programs didn't work for me and when I read out of the box the V3i is set up to hunt...for me that was not true..I even went back to the CJ program and tried that to see and the V3 went back to being sputtery...

The V3i is a detector that can be tweaked to your liking you just have to be able to find what works.

 

[earthmansurfer]

I don't get great separation/recoverability with the 10" DD coil in this heavy iron I'm hunting. I don't think any detector with that big of a coil would work. With the 6X10 I saw better results, also using a filter of 5 - 7.5, recovery delay of 42-50, and relatively high sensitivity (Rx at 8, Disc at 90). It also came alive in my test garden. I ordered the 5" excelerator (which says it's for the V3i as well. Hopefully it is nulled, if not back it will go.) and I think that will do the job in this heavy iron and searching for smaller coins.

My Omega is great in iron I thought, but it CAN'T pick up the coins in my test garden that my V3I CAN EASILY pick up!!! I trust in the V3i now, but I just have to match the coil to the conditions. I'm looking forward to going through that super heavy iron with that 5" coil.

It sure is a great machine once you start learning the language. And I stand by what I said not that long ago, I don't find The V3i hard to use. It just takes some time to see how the settings interact (and I'm not there yet!)

Good job on all that tweaking Low-Boy, I definitely like hearing about your experiments.

 

[Rob (IL)]

Get ready to send back the 5". [size=large]No[/size] third party coils are V nulled. ROB

 

[Larry (IL)]

It might work fine like our 10X12's, I'm anxious to hear how well it works in the iron. My guess is that it might not get full RX. If he wanted a V rated DD, I might have suggested the 4X6 DD which would have given him better separation yet.

 

[earthmansurfer]

I was afraid it wasn't really Nulled, but I heard Monty talking up a storm regarding it so decided to take a chance. The return laws in Germany are pretty good so hopefully if it doesn't work out I can send it back. I was checked in my garden again and really, it is full or iron and junk like you can't believe. The only coil that will work back there is either the 4X6 or something close.

Here is the translated page, just wonder if it is the same coil...
5" excelerator

 

[Larry (IL)]

Yes, Monte likes that coil but he is not a V3i user.