NEED HELP PLEASE!! WHAT IT MEANS?

[OscarSE]

FERR and CONDUC what it means? Those numbers are talking about zise?, metal caind? Can you tell me please?

THANKS
Oscar

 

[edjcox]

Ferr or Ferrous metal

Conduc or conductive


Detectors are typically used in deifferent modes for different metals especially when serachin for relics..

Needto know more where your seeing this in what context are the words showing up?

 

[HRife]

Ferrous is any metal that contains iron. Rusty nails, horse shoes, old barbed wire......if it rusts, it has iron in it. The higher the Ferrous number, the more likely it is something rusty. Conductivity is how well the metal will conduct electricity. Copper (wire and pennys), aluminum (wire, drink cans and pull tabs, foil), gold (rings and jewelry, coins) and silver (coins, jewelry). The higher the Conductivity the more likely the item will be a coin or jewelry. Hope this helps.

Harold

 

[dewcon4414]

Harold explained what the words defined pretty well. Now if you are talking about what the digital screen means. They are numbers on a wave graph that the machine will consistently give when it takes size, moisture, minerals, salt, and other metals in the soil into consideration and averages them. If you use the Ferr mode then these numbers are based on the ferr reading..... cond mode then they are based on the conductivity of the targets and things around it. Thats some of the reason TID is difficult at depth and you get the jumping of those numbers. I think Andy in his book said the Ferr numbers DID NOT really read the iron content of a metal, but was more of a random but consistent number assigned a target. Also the Ferr numbers are taken from reading the screen top to bottom moving left. Which is good if you are say field hunting and want your iron to sound with a LOW tone. Cond is taken top to bottom with high tones coming across the top of the screen... one of the reasons you get a high tone when it bounces off of iron.

Dew