Newbie Question

[jimmyk]

Sorry if this has been addressed (I'm sure it has). Did a search and could find nothing on it. How do you deal with wrap around signals. I was hunting an old school yard yesterday and got a lot of high tone signals with the cursor at the bottom of the screen. I"m assuming it's false wrap around type signals. I can't see in the manual how to deal with that. Only had the 3030 for a month, but love it. Have used an Etrac several years ago, so am somewhat familiar with the new machine, but can't remember or figure out how to set it up to eliminate this situation. Been using the stock coin program with some tweaks. Tried running auto at -3, but it didn't help.

Any advice would be appreciated.

jimmyk in Missouri

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

All machines deal with this. The real key is in the tones. Good targets wont move around and seem to disappear like iron. Just takes experience and digging them out till you build confidence in your machine.

 

[amberjack]

try using the 5 tone bins they do help with iron wrap as the iron will low grunt providing the iron box is made to have a low tone., and if really bad try the high trash disc pattern might be surprised how well it works.

AJ

 

[goodmore]

All the top end machines seem to do it. The combined pattern helps me. But the easiest way I found is to always check the target from multiple directions. Listen for good tone and watch for numbers really bouncing. Never be in too much of a hurry to dig. The detector is a tool. Take advantage of what it has to offer. Use the second pattern too. Watch the curser.

 

[Larry (IL)]

In addition to having iron set to a low tone, I have CO 49 and 50 rejected and that seems to help reduce the "wrap". This is how I have my CTX set up and I am very pleased with it.

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[ronfin]

One of the best ways to tell if the target is junk is to change angles to the target and re-swing. Iron usually wont hit from different angles, and on some occasions it may, but the numbers will be all over the place. Also, trust the CTX. If there's a good target at depth it will hit and repeat with a solid tone regardless. The problem sometimes occurs when you find a nice target in close proximity to iron, and it's half masked. Kind jumps in and out, wont repeat from two angles, but if you wiggle the coil over it and hear a high tone, just dig it to be sure. You never wanna walk away from a target that could've been a good one, and always rather to leave with the nail knowing you checked.

 

[jimmyk]

That's what I'm looking for. Seen it mentioned in other posts. I used to use Andy's coin program with my E-trac and never had the problem. What I can't figure out is how to set my program up to discriminate those number. Feel free to send me a PM.

Thanks, Larry,

jimmyk in Missouri

 

[Larry (IL)]

A piece of cake Jimmy, go to XChange 2 and highlight CO 49 and 50 and click on the X (discriminate) in your discrimination pattern for the program you are using. Download it and you are ready to go. Some of the factory programs already have those rejected but I can't tell you which ones at the moment.

 

[jimmyk]

Thanks, Larry. I'll give it a try.

JK