Pastor bob
Member
This is my second year with the SE Pro. I love the machine, but cannot seem to get any nickels with it. I dig a lot of the 9-05, 10-05, 9-06 and 10-06 signals but all I get is tabs. Am I looking for the wrong numbers? Thanks
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SE Pro and nickels
- Thread starter Pastor bob
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Ed (Upstate NY)
Active member
When using smart screen, the nickels seem to lock in in the bottom center and don't jump around as much as the junk.
Bob I find like Ed said most nickels I dig sit right on the bottom line of the SmartFind Screen.close but, just right of center bottom.
I mean the bottom of the cursor box sits on top of the bottom screen line.
This of course is not in digital ID as I find the SmartFind Screen can give a lot better idea of whats in the ground by cursor movement over imho a bunch of changing numbers that really do not distinguish a pattern. Hey but, thats a whole different discussion.
I mean the bottom of the cursor box sits on top of the bottom screen line.
This of course is not in digital ID as I find the SmartFind Screen can give a lot better idea of whats in the ground by cursor movement over imho a bunch of changing numbers that really do not distinguish a pattern. Hey but, thats a whole different discussion.
sgoss66
Well-known member
If you want to dig nickels, I'll tell you how to do it...
Set your noise cancel at 5 or 6.
Put your screen in digital, not smartfind.
Dig ALL 09-06 and 10-06 and 11-06 targets; if they are deep, the FE number will begin to deteriorate (at least in my soil), going up as high as the teens, but usually the 06 on the conductive side will be consistent. One key is, you want that 06 number to be pretty steady as you rotate around your target. If you rotate around, and can get a consistent 05 number from, say, 90 degrees and 270 degrees, but a consistent 06 number from 0 degrees and 360 degrees, THAT is usually a rectangular tab -- the "05" and "06" numbers at the different angles are due to the elongated shape of the tab, versus a round nickel. The roundness of the nickel gives a much more consistent "06" from all angles.
BUT -- the noise cancel number is key, just as Neal alluded to. On mid and low conductors, different noise cancel channels will give very different CO numbers. A nickel can range from an 04 conductive number to an 07, depending upon which noise cancel channel; the lower the channel number, the lower the CO number. My wedding ring will hit at 09-13 at noise cancel channel 1, and 07-22 at noise cancel channel 11; at the middle channels, it reads about 08-19.
Finally, pay attention to the tones...a nickel has a nice, smooth, "clean" sound to it; most junk targets that read similar will not sound as good -- especially as you rotate your body around the target while doing short passes over the center of the target -- i.e. the "Minelab wiggle."
Anyway, give that a try, and see how it works for you. I rarely finish a hunt without at least a DECENT ratio of nickels to other coins...
Steve
Set your noise cancel at 5 or 6.
Put your screen in digital, not smartfind.
Dig ALL 09-06 and 10-06 and 11-06 targets; if they are deep, the FE number will begin to deteriorate (at least in my soil), going up as high as the teens, but usually the 06 on the conductive side will be consistent. One key is, you want that 06 number to be pretty steady as you rotate around your target. If you rotate around, and can get a consistent 05 number from, say, 90 degrees and 270 degrees, but a consistent 06 number from 0 degrees and 360 degrees, THAT is usually a rectangular tab -- the "05" and "06" numbers at the different angles are due to the elongated shape of the tab, versus a round nickel. The roundness of the nickel gives a much more consistent "06" from all angles.
BUT -- the noise cancel number is key, just as Neal alluded to. On mid and low conductors, different noise cancel channels will give very different CO numbers. A nickel can range from an 04 conductive number to an 07, depending upon which noise cancel channel; the lower the channel number, the lower the CO number. My wedding ring will hit at 09-13 at noise cancel channel 1, and 07-22 at noise cancel channel 11; at the middle channels, it reads about 08-19.
Finally, pay attention to the tones...a nickel has a nice, smooth, "clean" sound to it; most junk targets that read similar will not sound as good -- especially as you rotate your body around the target while doing short passes over the center of the target -- i.e. the "Minelab wiggle."
Anyway, give that a try, and see how it works for you. I rarely finish a hunt without at least a DECENT ratio of nickels to other coins...
Steve
MNCoinhunter
Active member
I never find nickels below 10-05 ... Most all register 10-06 to 14-06. Also seems like the older nickels register higher numbers on my detector. And in Smartfind, my cursor is dead center/bottom ..
sgoss66
Well-known member
Dave --
I'm almost sure that if you set your noise cancel channel at "1," you can get them to read "04". I'll have to re-check, but it's ONLY on channel 1 that this happens. Any other channel, and then are 05/06/07. I agree with you that 10-06 to 14-06 is where they usually hit...
Steve
I'm almost sure that if you set your noise cancel channel at "1," you can get them to read "04". I'll have to re-check, but it's ONLY on channel 1 that this happens. Any other channel, and then are 05/06/07. I agree with you that 10-06 to 14-06 is where they usually hit...
Steve
park pirate
Member
On my SE they come in at 10-6 MIke O is right if you use smart find the curser is at the bottom center right on the line, when using my Sov-GT I could dig nickels all day..
My SE loves nickels and gold apparently. The addition of the 6x8 SEF coil has made a drastic improvement in finding both!!! I only run the smartfind screen. I know where everything falls. I hate digging Zincolns but unfortunately they register the same as my wife's engagement ring which is yellow gold and quite heavy.
Ringzapper
New member
When there is iron bits near to nickels you can get target masking pretty bad with all the explorer range. This is very true. I have scanned patches of land really thoroughly with the explorer , then I go over same bit of land with high frequency machine and the nickels show...
