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Like some tips on the Coinstike

R

Rick(ND)

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Just got one in and going to try it out and see what it can do for me up here in ND. I read the manual over and trying to get the feel of it and wonder on any tips anyone has that will help. Also do anyone used the average feature or do you leave it off. I am used to a threshold type detector and wonder if a person is better off running the threshold more positive as i seen some run at a -5.

Thanks for any info you can give me to help learn this detector.

Rick
 
This site has tons of good C$ info... LINK

I personally never ran mine with audible threshold... I usually hunted sensitivity 5, threshold 25... and tweaked from there. The threshold on the Coinstrike is unlike a "traditional" threshold, and is more like a trigger point for where a signal can break through to audible levels.. (guesstimation there :) )
 
Hi Rick,

Hopefully Rick N MI will chime in also. My best settings for depth in moderate trash were sens 8 and threshold -10. Depending on the amount of signals (and newer areas with lots of foil almost require notching out that zone) adjust the thrshold to suit your tolerance for audio input on the weak hits from all the tiny bits it picks up. Don;t worry about losing depth.

Fisher may call it a threshold control but its better to think of it as a squelch or noise blanker like on CB's. I have read various opinions on depth loss with high (-) threshold settings but I never saw much depth loss. If a deeper coin gets a good hit with the threshold set at -10 chances are very good it will still boom in at -40.

Set the iron disc according to the amount of iron sounds you want to hear, it won't cause masking. Also discing out the foil doesn't hurt performance. Never disc out tabs! Off center good targets generally read high around iron but other conductors can drop the reading on coins down so always resweep those tab hits to see if they "work up".

Sweep it at a comfortable speed like the MXT but also adjust to the amount of signals as well.

Tom
 
Rick, I am using a CS as my main detector for the last month(It's my 3rd one). Here are my settings:disc99, threshold 0 or -5, sens 7, volume max, nothing notched, no averaging or tracking. Here is what I find most critical and do it often. Ground balance in all metal and lift the coil only a couple of inches high instead of the six inches the manual states. I scrub the ground and sweep slow. With nothing notched, it sounds busy, but this is how you must run your Explorer and Sovereigns. Check signals from different angles for repeatability. This is a must with this detector and if the signals don't repeat, you will dig loads of trash. Bottle caps can be tough, but they seem to high tone from all angles and the numbers jump more than a coin. The CS will lock on a coin and do it pretty deep. I can wade through the trashiest spots with the CS, even with the 8 inch coil. Last week I hunted a picnic park that is old and trashy. I have been here for the last 8 years with every detector made and every coil for these detectors. For the week I ended up with 5 Indian heads, 1 Barber dime, 2 mercs, 2 silver roosies, and 30 wheats. SLOW and REPEATABILITY is crucial. One quirk that I have experienced with all my CS's concerns nickles. Shallow nickles will lock on with mid tones and numbers from 9 to 12. Almost every time out with the CS I will get a high tone and a midtone with numbers that will be in the nickle range and then from another angle they will be in the zinc range. The depth on these targets in pinpoint showed about 6 inches so one day I decided to check them out. More times than not, these targets were deep nickles. This has happened with all of my CS. Also, deep coins will just be a tick with a number sometimes in the high teens or around twenty. Open a plug and check these out as when you open the ground, the signals will get more accurate and turn out to be coins. This is how I find all my deep(7 to 9 inch) coins. It seems that Tom's and my settings are very close and where I hunt, I hardly every change my settings and if I do, I only go deeper into the negative threshold from 0 to -5 or -10. Hope this helps. R.L.
 
Yes, you can run a positive threshold if you can stand the chatter, but I wouldn't recommend it for a few hours. I usually run mine with threshold at -5 to -10 depending on the area, sensitivity at 5-8 depending on the area as well, tracking on, averaging off.

The easiest way i found to get comfortable with the C$ was to notch everything but Hi coins out and run threshold to -25 or even -40 sensitivity at 5 then after a few hours I would gradually star notching other targets in. This quieted the C$ down a bit and made it a tad bit more tolerable.
 
Went to a sledding hill I know is new coins at if nothing else and was surprised at how smooth it ran most of the time. I set the threshold at -10 then to -5 then to 0 and tried it a little higher and see it does make a lot of noise there, but know it is working. I settled for a -5 to help learn it. Sensitivity at 7 and iron reject at 99 and seen I had notches in for nickles and zinc and was rejecting the foil and pull tabs. I wanted to accept them, but couldn't as I didn't bring my book with, but since see how that is done when I got home. I see where the rusty bottle caps do give it a problem and I am sure after using it for a while I May see something different about them. I was going mostly for signals that lock on a number or 2 as I go all the way around the target, if the number changed a lot or got 2 tone I didn't dig unless it was deeper which were pieces of iron, but got fooled a few times. One of the zinc pennies I got today bounced a bit and had 2 different tones and feel it was because it was rotting away.
I was there little over a hour and the heat was getting to me so I had to quit, but got 3 quarters, 2 zinc pennies and 7 clad dimes, so it was a learning experience for me today and soon I will try it at a area where coins can be deep.
One thing I know many say is great, but I don't know about it is the pinpoint as everything sounds so big and I have to detune it to pinpoint, or leave the coil partly on the target before I push the pinpoint.

Now to get time to get out again with it plus my other detectors.

Thanks again for the tips as it will make it easier to use.

Rick
 
that a lot of the time I open up iron desc. to 00 and listen for any high blips in my sweep and then investigate. Threshold -5 and sens. 6-8 Chris
 
In ND? You got alot of ballparks up there. Ask around the old folk, see where there were once old grandstands, you'll find some rewards under the grass. I used to kick up coins from the 40's up in WPG when I was a kid.
 
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