Recovery delay

[pchop]

Could someone please give me a good explanation of recovery. Doe`s it really affect depth? . My idea of it is if you had a piece of trash and a quarter next to each other is that if you went over both of them that the quarter might not sound off if its to close to the trash, or is it how long the machine holds the information after you swept over a object until it will reset to get the next piece. Haven`t really played with this setting ,been doing alot of filter change and frequency change and sensitivity and seems to work good on objects i buried in my ground. I just havent messed with recovery. It seems these are the most important ones when i cant pull a target in i have buried then i amp it up with the settings i use and it comes in good at 8in and 10. Wondering from you experienced guys if there are other settings i can play with to get even better depth. thanks very much

keith

 

[Rob (IL)]

Once the R/D cycle is triggered, Spectra will give "selected R/D time" to the process, regardless of the number of targets in ground. If you give Spectra 100 R/D units, it will use every one. If your detector passes over one target, you must burn 100% of the R/D units before Spectra can process another target. Shorter R/D times can accommodate a denser target field. How long Spectra has to process the first target, and then be ready to process a second target. Lower numbers = SHORTER delay. Higher numbers = LONGER delay. Faster recovery doesn

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

How long the machine holds [processes] the information after you swept over a object until it will reset to get the next piece is the correct answer. In areas where there is little trash, a longer delay allows the V3i more time to process the information, resulting in better ID on deeper targets. Where there is more trash you will want to lower the delay so that the V3i can process signals quicker, insuring that you can find good targets among the trash.

I tend to keep the delay set at 90 for general searching, and going as low as 40 in trashy areas.

The three controls that have the biggest impact on depth will be your sensitivity controls; RX Gain, All Metal Sensitivity, and Discriminate Sensitivity. As a general rule, raise these as high as possible while maintaining stability.

 

[pchop]

Wow Rob, great explanation, ty very much

 

[pchop]

And Neil ty

 

[Aurium]

Very good explanation of the recovery delay, and a nice reminder of what to tweak every now and then. I run around 90 myself most of the time.