Find's Treasure Forums
Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!
You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
Click here to register!
Need Support Help?
Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you
Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.
New to this
- Thread starter Goldbuzz
- Start date
Hey Goldbuzz - SSSHHHH or you'll wake this forum up! :0) You're the first visitor here in a while! Good to have a new Finny man out there. Your from the land of mineralization. Good choice on the Finny. No magic or PHD required to use this fine machine. I'm in Arizona right now and have had a great time with my Finny. Using the 8 inch mono and loving it. The 10x14 stock coil has no big advantage over the 8 mono and much easier to swing all day. I hunt in the slow track mode mostly and I break the rules when booting up my machine. The Finny has all the brains to handle the boot-up and I no longer do the coil pump up and down when booting - up. I simply set the coil on the ground, turn it to slow track, let the machine test the ground till it gets quiet, switch to lock and then start to hunt. If/when I get any falsing I simply slow down the swing and let the machine have more time to test the ground. I found the swing speed to be directly related to false signals. Probably the same for the 10x14 but I haven't used that coil much at all. The 10x14 will get better depth but not a lot and the 8 mono will find smaller bits at shallower depth. The 10x14 has a blade like signal that is narrow and long where the 8 mono has a cone shape signal. Obviously the cone shape has a smaller area at depth so requires some overlap when swinging if you're thinking about the deep targets and, obviously, the 10x14, with the longer blade like signal, covers more area at depth but the depth difference between the two is not huge, you just get better coverage with the large coil. With the 8 mono I run the Threshold volume about 8 and adjust the headphone volume to comfort. This gives me a bit of advantage for boosting deep signals. My rule is to keep it "low and slow" and let the brains of the machine do it's thing. Auto ground track is a great feature with the Finny so you have to find the "sweet spot" with the swing speed so the machine can sort things out. It is always thinking so you have to give it time to do it's thing. If you have any questions/problems just post them here - you'll find lots of help. Good luck and welcome aboard!
Goldbuzz - external speakers are really attractive for many reasons. Here in Arizona I am always stopping to untangle the headphone wire from thorny limbs. I would love to have a wireless headphone set-up or an option of external speaker but I don't have the electrical knowledge to make the modification. Also, when the temps get warm it would be nice to shed the headphones. Some day I will take the time to research the process. A search on this site will turn up many post about the process. It may not be as complicated as I make it out to be. It's just the time required to make the mod that keeps me in headphones.
Since my last post I have had two outings, first was a great avo with 5 Australian pennies and two ring pulls and a massive nail
Coil was a 8" mono
second was a massive noise field of hot rocks, iron stone, where some old train tracks were, the days finds included 60 cents, a nail and an old bundaberg rum bottle cap.
Coil was also a 8 " mono, was told to have a go of the std 10x14 DD coil in iron stone areas.
Coil was a 8" mono
second was a massive noise field of hot rocks, iron stone, where some old train tracks were, the days finds included 60 cents, a nail and an old bundaberg rum bottle cap.
Coil was also a 8 " mono, was told to have a go of the std 10x14 DD coil in iron stone areas.