My se settings , good or bad?

[daveo]

Hope this isnt too long ,any advice , please feel free, i hunt in smartfind, IM 30, sens. 16(manual), gain 9 , threshold 7, variability 8, limits 10, sounds, ferrous, recovery , fast and deep,contrast 10,,, on the select , I accept , coins, jewlery, I xout foil and nails, and I leave ferrous coins,pull tabs,and screwcaps blank . Is this a good combination? Thanks in advance for any help,

 

[NH Bob]

This is my opinion.
If you are hunting with the Iron mask screen and set to 30 and ferrous sounds. There is no need to X out or Check anything.
Your sensitivity could be quite a bit higher unless it gets erratic.
Gain is a little high. You might bring it back to factory 8 or even less. I have noticed that 6 makes for a very quiet machine.
Variability could be 9 or 10 to give you better separation of coin sounds.
Recovery should be deep only or neither one as running deep and fast messes up the nice tones and deep only enhances the deep signals which you are doing with the Gain anyway.
Try running in iron mask 30 or all metal/ferrous sounds and learn the different tones and dig more targets.
Only my opinion.

 

[daveo]

Thank you Bob, ill try your suggestions.

 

[mattockman]

Try gain at 7 or 8...threshhold 5..Deep only...leave everything unchecked.(don't "x" or accept" leave wide open...full wide open screen...then if you want just set IM to 30 if you need to hear less iron noises...I have adapted to no IM and wide open smart screen...If curser is not tight high left...I dig it...if it sounds too good and is high tight left...dig it. Every day is diff....how you feel and how much time you want to dig iffys...but if you walk away from wierd or iffy sounds...you will never know...nothing is text book...so experiment and find out yourself...these and Bobs are very good set ups...I have found staying with this and only changing for rare cases of elec. noise or hot rocks or loaded with junk...has worked well...I run 18-22 sens...if I can run 23-24 I will but if it falses then it is not good..a little is ok but not alot...you will be surprised how deep it goes if they are deep...and don't think all old coins are deep...not true..I have dug many shallow old coins...from just under surface and deeper...everthing else you mentioned is good.

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Back your gain off to 6-7 and up your sens, you want reasonable stability but 16 is quite low. I run 26 most of the time, higher if its stable, lower if its going nuts but I never drop below 22. Push the variability to 10 and you can tell a merc from a barber dime.

Contrast is all about the outside temp and sunlight. Adjust up and down for clear visibility. If the background is looking black decrease, if the foreground is faint increase. I often x out rusty crowncaps, you just gota watch out for nickels which can get over there and the early nickel allow indians. Also be on the lookout for very silver sounding targets that are getting pulled down into the rusty crowncap zone, you may have silver sitting under a disitegrating rusty crowncap. I dug two of those already this year.

[quote daveo]Hope this isnt too long ,any advice , please feel free, i hunt in smartfind, IM 30, sens. 16(manual), gain 9 , threshold 7, variability 8, limits 10, sounds, ferrous, recovery , fast and deep,contrast 10,,, on the select , I accept , coins, jewlery, I xout foil and nails, and I leave ferrous coins,pull tabs,and screwcaps blank . Is this a good combination? Thanks in advance for any help,[/quote]

 

[captainbottletop]

I personally think they are bad settings. On my site these settings you are using do not produce anything but mostly junk iron. Sorry if i offend you with my view but this is just my opinion after spending forever searching with every possible program settings permutaion.

 

[Larry--IndianaHVAC]

Back your gain down to 6 or 7 and if in heavy trash use the deep off and the fast on and just the reverse if in a fairly clean area. Variblilty should be maxed too. The sens is ok in heavy trash but should be bumped up to 20+ whatever your conditions allow. And don't forget to noise cancel!