azsh07
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Took it to a colonial era cellar hole that is very trashy however it has giving up some good relics over the years. I had stopped going in to this one a few years back as the trash...well iron mainly....was so dense that hunting close to the house was painful with the machines I had at the time. I had used a F75 in there and it did great but no small coil at the time so using the stock coil was not worth it. Outer areas of the property were very fruitful and yielded a William and Mary...a few early English Half pence that could not identify due to corrosion....the small hand full of KGII's as well as some LC's. Of course a good variety of buttons and buckles.
After hunting the area pretty hard I did not go back until the Gold Pro came out. I knew that machine would do what the F75 could not (at least as well0...so went back last year. I cleaned out a lot of buttons and half a dozen coins in the areas near the old foundation that were masked by the trash and noise of other machines. was very impressed.
So with that in mind I took the Jupiter back to hunt the same spots I hit pretty hard..well very hard with the GB Pro. I did not expect to find much but knew I would not get skunked. Well was mildly surprised at how much the Jupiter pulled out of the same small spots I hit with the GB PRO. I did not find any coins but did pull out half a dozen small buttons...some small brass doodads....as well as the usual lead melt.
I would say it was not too tough to get used to the language of the Jupiter although it is unique to this machine. A good target mixed in iron was easy to hear and know it was not trash falsing. I did get some rusty iron pieces that I dug as they sounded like rusty iron coming through on the high side but being new to this machine had to be sure. Rusty iron squeaking in high as pretty easy to tell from other targets to this point.
I set the machine up in a USER mode so could set the tones to my liking. After much testing last night I decided to use what will dub as a 4x2 tone setting. technically it is set for 4 tones but in functionality I hear two most of the time. For this reason.
I set all iron to come in at a low 250 KHZ grunt. Then the range that only foil come in set to a low mid tone. From just above foil to say around a dime or quarter reading I set to a higher tone around say 650Khz. last took the very last VDI segment, which takes in VDI 78-80 I think, and set to the max high pitch.
reason for that last setting is that iron if deep and rusty will tend to wrap around and come in with a high VDI reading at around 80. This is explained in the manual and is common to almost all machines. Some people I read like to set that last VDI to an iron tone also but do not want to miss big silver simply because they also fall in that range and I would not look down to the meter for any iron grunt.
Now foil set that way as we do not have many thin hammered coins that come in foil,,,oh I know small hammered oak trees do but I have never seen one dug and the other tree shillings will come in near a penny or dime. So...anyway that keeps a foil target so I can know it's there if I choose to pay attention to it but also not have it in the iron tone where I ignore it nor have it in with the rest of the relic range and have to look at a meter every dang time.
So in effect I almost always here the iron grunt and the tone that takes in everything above small foil to just under a silver half dollar. 99% of relics dug fall in this range...I rarely see big silver dug in cellar holes here. Silver is usually either small reales or smaller US coinage. Plus..here is the thing....by setting that last rage to a very high tone...iron that wraps around has an iron grunt mixed in whereas a large piece of silver does not have that grunt mixed in.
Nothing was discriminated out as I run wide open and THIS is why like a programmable VDI to tones. Now...in another type of detecting would use different tone to VDI settings and I have one set for an increasing tone to VDI for each of the 20 VDI quadrants....but that would be a plethora of annoying tones in a cellar hole. Goo for coin picking though.
So...to me....again it is like a Gold Bug Pro with a wide variety of tone ID Options. You also have audio gain so...you can choose to have that set to your liking per your site requirements. I sometimes like gain near max other times not so much..just depends..and with this have options.
Again..I do not see this as being a depth machine to follow up your T2 or Explorer with..just not going to happen. It was designed for iron laden sites and that is what it what it did excellent in today.
After hunting the area pretty hard I did not go back until the Gold Pro came out. I knew that machine would do what the F75 could not (at least as well0...so went back last year. I cleaned out a lot of buttons and half a dozen coins in the areas near the old foundation that were masked by the trash and noise of other machines. was very impressed.
So with that in mind I took the Jupiter back to hunt the same spots I hit pretty hard..well very hard with the GB Pro. I did not expect to find much but knew I would not get skunked. Well was mildly surprised at how much the Jupiter pulled out of the same small spots I hit with the GB PRO. I did not find any coins but did pull out half a dozen small buttons...some small brass doodads....as well as the usual lead melt.
I would say it was not too tough to get used to the language of the Jupiter although it is unique to this machine. A good target mixed in iron was easy to hear and know it was not trash falsing. I did get some rusty iron pieces that I dug as they sounded like rusty iron coming through on the high side but being new to this machine had to be sure. Rusty iron squeaking in high as pretty easy to tell from other targets to this point.
I set the machine up in a USER mode so could set the tones to my liking. After much testing last night I decided to use what will dub as a 4x2 tone setting. technically it is set for 4 tones but in functionality I hear two most of the time. For this reason.
I set all iron to come in at a low 250 KHZ grunt. Then the range that only foil come in set to a low mid tone. From just above foil to say around a dime or quarter reading I set to a higher tone around say 650Khz. last took the very last VDI segment, which takes in VDI 78-80 I think, and set to the max high pitch.
reason for that last setting is that iron if deep and rusty will tend to wrap around and come in with a high VDI reading at around 80. This is explained in the manual and is common to almost all machines. Some people I read like to set that last VDI to an iron tone also but do not want to miss big silver simply because they also fall in that range and I would not look down to the meter for any iron grunt.
Now foil set that way as we do not have many thin hammered coins that come in foil,,,oh I know small hammered oak trees do but I have never seen one dug and the other tree shillings will come in near a penny or dime. So...anyway that keeps a foil target so I can know it's there if I choose to pay attention to it but also not have it in the iron tone where I ignore it nor have it in with the rest of the relic range and have to look at a meter every dang time.
So in effect I almost always here the iron grunt and the tone that takes in everything above small foil to just under a silver half dollar. 99% of relics dug fall in this range...I rarely see big silver dug in cellar holes here. Silver is usually either small reales or smaller US coinage. Plus..here is the thing....by setting that last rage to a very high tone...iron that wraps around has an iron grunt mixed in whereas a large piece of silver does not have that grunt mixed in.
Nothing was discriminated out as I run wide open and THIS is why like a programmable VDI to tones. Now...in another type of detecting would use different tone to VDI settings and I have one set for an increasing tone to VDI for each of the 20 VDI quadrants....but that would be a plethora of annoying tones in a cellar hole. Goo for coin picking though.
So...to me....again it is like a Gold Bug Pro with a wide variety of tone ID Options. You also have audio gain so...you can choose to have that set to your liking per your site requirements. I sometimes like gain near max other times not so much..just depends..and with this have options.
Again..I do not see this as being a depth machine to follow up your T2 or Explorer with..just not going to happen. It was designed for iron laden sites and that is what it what it did excellent in today.