Frank in NH
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Not new to detecting, but is the V3i hard to learn?
- Thread starter Frank in NH
- Start date
Larry (IL)
Well-known member
It can be if you want to try and tackle everything it has to offer. It also can be very easy with the factory programs. A simplified version of the V3i is the VX3, but whichever way you deside to go, take it a little bit at a time. The V3i is the most advanced detector on the market and it will take quite a while to learn everything.
TC-NM
Active member
Frank in NH,
Let me first say for me, it was an up hill battle! I was brought up on analog (meter) detector's. White's 5000-D's; 6000-D's and beep and dig detector's too. Back in '09 I bought a Vision (predecessor to the V3 and V3i) and it took me about a half a year just to get comfortable in what it was saying to me. Trying to use my experience with the VDI numbers from analog and correlate to the new machine wasn't too difficult.
Most of the younger folks out there that detect have used classics, quantums, xlt's and dfx's, and so on that it may be easier to transition to the V3i. With new technology bombarding us everyday, you just gotta keep up or you'll have a heck of a time (like me) in learning this machine.
If you're computer literate, I don't see any problems in navigating thru the menus.
What heck, give it a shot . . . you may like the V3i.
TC-NM
Let me first say for me, it was an up hill battle! I was brought up on analog (meter) detector's. White's 5000-D's; 6000-D's and beep and dig detector's too. Back in '09 I bought a Vision (predecessor to the V3 and V3i) and it took me about a half a year just to get comfortable in what it was saying to me. Trying to use my experience with the VDI numbers from analog and correlate to the new machine wasn't too difficult.
Most of the younger folks out there that detect have used classics, quantums, xlt's and dfx's, and so on that it may be easier to transition to the V3i. With new technology bombarding us everyday, you just gotta keep up or you'll have a heck of a time (like me) in learning this machine.
If you're computer literate, I don't see any problems in navigating thru the menus.
What heck, give it a shot . . . you may like the V3i.
TC-NM
The main thing is to use factory programs at first and only mess with the main adjustments (Sensitivities,Recovery Delay,Filters.....and understand their relationships to each other......keep it at that for a while.) You know what? This is mostly what we all end up using the most anyways because the program learning is behind us and we just go back to these "meat of the machine" adjustments.....with all our personalization intact almost instantly. (A thing of beauty.)
As a side project ONLY,practice going through the menus ONLY....cascading in and out from how they expand and colapse back to their basic start screen and just get familiar to which "families" they each belong to. You do not have to care ONE BIT on learning what some of them do for you (just yet) as you have enough on your plate but ....it's straight forward and a fun ride. A mule will get the job done....this machine is a better breed!
As a side project ONLY,practice going through the menus ONLY....cascading in and out from how they expand and colapse back to their basic start screen and just get familiar to which "families" they each belong to. You do not have to care ONE BIT on learning what some of them do for you (just yet) as you have enough on your plate but ....it's straight forward and a fun ride. A mule will get the job done....this machine is a better breed!
VWandSTUDEBAKER
New member
Its a HUGE learning curve, but the folks on the Whites forum have really been a lot of help to a lot of people !
The stock programs are pretty much what many guys are using with great success. Stay with them at first and learn and change one setting at a time. Don't make changes unless you understand why you are making them. Don't make changes just because that is what you read on the forums. Not all posts are correct.