New to the Garrett 2500

[lil ben]

First impression real nice quality. Snow on the ground here in Indiana. I can only do the air test for now. Any advice & thoughts on sensitivity settings? Should I stay with the factory settings, any help from the Experienced Garrett users would be appreciated greatly.
Lil Ben

 

[Big Red]

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[lil ben]

Big Red, I live in Kendallville, Northeast corner of state

 

[Big Red]

Im In Marion .....about 60 miles south of Fort wayne. How long you been detectin? Is the GTI 2500 your first detector?

 

[lil ben]

Big Red, I work in Muncie through the week. I've been detectin for about 8 years nothing real serious But I like to get out once in awhile. The GTI I have read alot of great things about so I thought I needed to get one, I received it yesterday and I've been doing air test and trying to remember all the posts that I've read.
Lil Ben

 

[Big Red]

Muncie is not far from me. I have not used the GTI 2500....But i do have a Gti 1500. I love the imaging feature on this machine. My advice is watch the video several times .....lots of air test. Read lots of post and articles and field test on the 2500. Hope for a warm day.....maybe hit a sleding hill. And hope for a early spring.

Larry

 

[lil ben]

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[Uncle Willy]

Start out with sensitivity set at 6 to 6.5 and work your way up. Actually you could hunt at that setting forever. Centering the target is critical for correct readings. Use the signal intensity readings to get a correct centering. When you encounter a target always move the coil off the target all the way, then press pinpoint and move back over the target. When you have centered correctly the target will be under the hole in the center of the coil. This detector is deadly on pinpointing.

Other than lower sensitivity stay in coin mode and factory settings for about 100 hours until you are familiar with this machine. One thing you can change is the threshold. Turn it down to a slight hum or no sound at all. The rest is pretty well cut and dried.

Bill

 

[lil ben]

Thanks for the reply Uncle Willey, With the sensitivity at 6 or 6.5 will that hinder any depth?

 

[Uncle Willy]

Not at all, plus it will allow your detector to see through some of the junk and mineralization it was picking up before. I keep trying to tell folks that sensitivity is not a depth control although it is often falsely referred to as such. When you increase the sensitivity of the coil you increase the sensitivity to everything in the ground, including the target you are looking for.

When you lower the sensitivity you bleed out a lot of those things that can mask a good target. You may be surprised at what you uncover running lower sensitivity.

Bill

 

[lil ben]

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