Question on descrimination

[Anonymous]

I have always read that the more descrimination you use the greater the depth loss. I was looking at some of the coplex coin programs illustrated on some web sites. Thinking the people using these programs whilst saving digging time must be loosing targets. Are these thoughts rubbish or does the explorer work differently to previous detectors?.

 

[Anonymous]

Jack,
I feel it is not the depth loss as much as good targets being loss in some of these disc patterns. As we know not every target reads like it should read and with a disc pattern 2 items close together will not read in their correct place on the screen on the Explorer so these may be nulled out depending on the disc pattern you are using.
The good finds you are seeing posted from some worked out parks and such did not read in their correct postion on the screen and would have been lost in a tight disc pattern.
Now some have been having good luck runing a iron mask at a low setting of -12 to a -15, but this is not for everyone and everyplace, but have seen where it can get coins closer to iron than a -6 or so would be.
I used to run a disc pattern, but not a tight one and have run a iron mask at a -12 when not in the pattern, but found I like mine better with just iron mask at a -7 and no pattern, but when I have a questionable signal that may be coin next to iron I switch over to my disc pattern which is a copy of Iron mask at a -15 with the bottom right blacked out. This way I can use this pattern in iron and go to ferrous tones if needed.
Also as a coin or good item gets deeper we find they will read differnt and with a tigher disc pattern these too would be missed not because of depth, but be disc out. I feel the depth itself is not lossed in a pattern as much disc out in a pattern.
Rick

 

[Anonymous]

Rick
Spot on with your obsevations regarding target presentation, ground conditions, and what is lying close to the target, all could take a good target outside the narrow except band. But does that narrow except band represent a depth loss because of the large amount of descrimination being used.On my soveriegn turn up the decrimination and you loose depth, is the explorer in some way different.

 

[Anonymous]

With my Soveriegn, the deeper the ooin,the fainter the signal.
With the Explorer, I feel the signal stays the same volume until it starts to break up at maximum depth.
I do not feel I lose depth with either with increased discrimination. However Sensitivity definitely effects depth on both machines.

 

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