I HAD A NEW M-6. ALL COINS ON TOP OF THE GROUND GAVE A REAL NICE SOLID HIT BACK AND FOURTH. I DUG EIGHT COINS ANYWHERE FROM 2-7 INCHES,AND EVERY HIT WAS SCRATCHY. CONNECTION WAS CHECKED ,IT'S GOOD. SENSITIVITY AND DISC WERE RAISED AND LOWERED. NO EFFECT.MACHINE WAS PROPERLY GROUND BALANCED.I THEN USED A FRIENDS DFX.SOLID HITS ON COINS ON TOP OF THE GROUND AND IN THE GROUND. HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD THIS PROBLEM WITH THE M-6. (BATTERYS WERE BRAND NEW) THANK YOU.
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littletwig
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What are you runing you sensitivity at. Too much and you can get a false signal in high mineral soil. Try backing off on the sensitivity. Start low then increase until you loose the good crisp signal. If all else fails, your machine might be faulty. Send it back to whites and they will fix it good as new. They have great customer service.
[size=large]You said you HAD and M6. Does this mean you, at one time, but no longer, had an M6 and you're posting this from recall?[/size]patch said:
[size=large]Were you using only the stock 950 coil? We you, by any chance, using the trigger-toggle forward Tone ID?patch said:
Now, I ask only because if you're posting is based upon something you experienced in the past but no longer have the same M6, it might be difficult to answer in a way that can help because you can't check some things out.
Depending upon the mineralization at the site you were at, and the coil used, you might have experienced a problems that is present with the M6 when hunting with the audio Tone ID. I know that on the M6 I had, the M5's I have used, and the M6 I presently hunt with, I like to use the Tone ID function some of the time, but most especially in favorable conditions and for shallower coins. On deeper coins the Tone ID, if it is a deeper coin and ground mineralization is involved, the audio response can start to sound crappy. Where as if you then trigger back to the center-toggle position for a single tone, the audio response is much cleaner and definitely better to hear the deeper targets. I'm referring to coins in the 4" plus range, but have had improved audio response on 2"-4" coins when dealing with higher-mineralized ground environments.
I might add, too, that I am not really too excited about the stock 950 coils and have preferred the 5.3 Eclipse to the 950, and presently am using the 6" Double-D Excelerator in trashier sites or those with dense brush or rubble, and the 10X12 S.E.F coil. Both give me improved performance on in-ground targets where I live, but here in NW Oregon most ground is quite mineralized.
Certainly, there is the outside chance that the particular M6 had (1) a bad search coil or (2) a bad Tone ID circuit or (3) had other detector related faults and needed to be checked out. Since there was a DFX to compare with, did you swap coils with the DFX and see how each model then performed? That could have suggested a coil problem.
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