Question About Sensitivity Control

[Anonymous]

I am unclear about the merits of adjusting the sensitivity control.I have read and reread the manual and I'm still not sure.
Would it be fair to say that lowering sensitivity reduces the number of marginal signals but increases depth?
I'm attempting to do a final search of a park that been well hunted.I am using an 8" coil and a Wot.To maximize depth to find older coins should I back off on sensitivity?I presume if I do that I might miss rings etc,is that right?
Any help would be appreciated,thanks a lot.

 

[Anonymous]

Most people run their sensitivity too high. I usually run mine around the 11 o'clock position. This will hold maxium depth while not having the machine false to much.
Every maching might be a little different. Even thought an air test is not an accurate way to guage depth for the Sov. Turn your sensitivity up all the way air test a quarter, when you first notice the first loss of depth stop and turn the knob back slighty. This will let you run at full depth, and stop most falsing, it will help make some of those old iron signals not as hot.
HH

 

[Anonymous]

This depends on many differnt things, if it is very trashy I sure wont run max sensitivity as you will miss a lot. Now like you say you want to go over a area one more time and now you will want to go slower then you did before and listen close to any change in threshold and work these signals to see if they are good or not. Sensitivity I would run as high as you can without a lot of nulling and find it is rare I can get any higher than 10 o'clock postion, find 11 for me is the best.
Now a week or so ago and I cant remember who posted it, but found the way to get the max sensitivity setting for the area you are going to be hunting. He said to find a area with no metal in the ground (check in all metal pinpoint) turn the sensitivity to max and lower the coil from 12 inches to possibly 1 inch like you would be ground balanceing it. The threshold will possibly null, so lower the sensitivity a little and try it again untill the threshold hold smooth, then you will have it set for the max of the area. I tried it and it seem to be about the same I have been using.
One thing though is make sure you go real slow if you know there are deep coins left as I have got coins down to 12 inches with my 8 inch coinsearch and 14 with my S12 of SunRays that normaly would have been missed if I hadnt been going super slow and listening closely as many were just a slight change in threshold, but doing the Sovereign wiggle I knew there was a good target there.
Rick