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Notching EDGEucation /clarification

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I felt bad I was kinda snippy below about the Edge seeming to only do 1 notch at a time. I really should have tested this closer, but I'm not a big notch person doing very few "modern" sites. But, I wanted to make a post before folks take the EDge way of notching as a "deal breaker". Or rumors spread only 1 at a time is the only possibility. So, here's a better EDGEucation on notches, if you will :)
Remember that the Coinstrike MUST allow use of more than 1 notch at a time because there's no way to dial up the disc on a C$ like the Excel/EDGE way. BUT, as I said before, I think the EDGE offers alot of notch possibilites...not just through the notches themselves (like tab/foil) but by ALSO combining disc AND the presets. For example, though it may appear the EDGE only cancels 1 at a time...no the disc still works too. Tonight I put the disc on +6. This cancels FOIL. I took a ball of foil out to be sure. Then I pushed NOTCH pad & went to 1c (Zincs). A square on rt side showed it was set to cancel my choosen 1C. But, it still eliminated the foil too w. disc still on +6. So disc/notch work together....just what I hoped for. So, that's 1 way to knock out 2 trash items at once. Another way would be use of a preset like OC. OC remember deletes pesky foil & tabs too (or notches 2 items). Again, simply dialing disc up as high as you choose will delete all trash, and that can also be achieved with NC (new coin) preset too. So there is room to "Play" I think with notching (& there may be other tricks to use too). So, I'm not just trying to be the Edge apologist here :) Now I'm glad we checked into this, & only wish I'd learned this earlier so I could have put it in the field test. Bear with me....I'm still learning it on the fly too :) HH, Bill
 
I know each his own, but for me one of the coolest features of the C$, and I assume the Excel and Edge, is the honest-to-goodness real world conductivity report the ID gives you when you swing over a target. They don't group things into segments and call it "tabs" or "coins". These DSP machines tell the user what it sees, and it's up to him or her to decide "dig or don't dig". 9 times out of 10 I end up hunting with nothing notched out on the C$ anyway. If I'm in a hurry I may notch stuff, but I always feel like I may be missing something (like jewelry!). The Edge sounds to me like it's got just the right notches in the presets if you find certain signals to be irritating. I sure don't see anything worth griping about, and I heard from a pretty good source the Edge has GREAT depth (comparable to the ol' Coinstrike!). That's impressive in my book!

HH

Mark in NC
 
Yes you should have known the answer to that question. :poke:

You should know this one to.

What numbers exactly did the notch zones end up covering? heh heh
The pie chart that downloaded with the manual is hard to understand with the different shades of gray used to explain all the zones for tones, notches and numbers. Very confusing to me and I know that Fisher worked on the zones from our input right up until recently so maybe it is even out of date?

Tom
 
I'll try to do what Tom said & try to get a listing/chart of what numbers are canceled with each notch or each preset. I know it was really the OC preset that some tweeking was done. Stuff like the foil/tab/zinc should match the C$ for the most part......
 
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