On the whole , would you consider the CZ3D a bit chatty,,,

[grouser]

Say it's set up right and GB'ed correctly. would you say very quite,,, or a little noisy is normal. ? I have only my Tesoro Silver uMax to compare it to and it is dead silent until you hit a target....

 

[Lipservice]

Mine makes quite a bit of noise because I run 0 disc. But you get used to it and just listen for those high tones in there and don't run the sens. past 5.0.

 

[tincanalley]

When I'm in the field beside my home, it sounds like a gattlin' gun because of all the nails and junk (I run at 0 disc.). In my front yard which has been filled with topsoil from a local mountain and has no nails/trash, it's so quite I have to keep putting my shovel near it to see if it's still working. It yours is chatty, it's probably lots of junk/nails in the soil unless you have electrical interference from something nearby. That, or you may be running my sen. too high.

 

[JeffNS]

I'd have to say overall my CZ3D is fairly quiet...unless there's lot's of iron trash (nails etc.) in which case the unit will very reliabely sound off when using 0 Disc. I have never needed to have my sensitivity turned up beyond 4.75...just a hair less than 5. On a CZ you're at max. sens at about 4.7 - 4.8. Anything beyond this is just gonna amplify weaker signals and will not provide more depth.

 

[grouser]

thanks guys,,,, confirmed what I was thinking,,,, have less than 1 hour on it and just thought I'd ask,,,, I run it in o disc and the other day when it hit a nickel it just about shot outta my hand,,,, so just gotta get used to the extra little sounds. How about one way hits? or moving the coil back and forth quickly will that give you hints as to what it is you have under the coil?

 

[S.TexasKevin]

I use the small coil whenever I am able, and when I am hunting an area such as the field where an old house was. This is where mine tends to be a little noisy and the small coil helps me.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

One way hits or if target seems to move in pinpoint move on...Exceptions would be a real deep coin and then you may have to play with it to get it to hit from at least two directions..

Of course depth would read 8 and if even deeper the pinpoint is almost a whisper....I believe 4.8 is max. for sens.and most run approx. 4.5 but again may differ a tad in your neck of the woods...

Having said the above use the bobbing method for pinpointing and set dead on and having sens. and volume maxed when you ground balance helps you hear tonal changes better for a right on ground balance and once you balance set them to your specs....

Do remember if time is limited and you are only after silver max. out the disc. and CZ's are one of the few units which lose little or depth with high disc and then should really run quiet...

 

[grouser]

I got into some better/cleaner ground and it is very quiet,,, still trying to figure out the false iron /high signals,,,, if there is even a slight iron grunt in any direction mixed in the high tone is it an iron target? Seems to be for me anyway,

 

[gmanlight]

If you can rotate around the target more than 50% with the Hi tone dig it.
I hunted a farm field today with lots of iron grunts and pull some relic's out of the iron like this.