Went to the running track behind my place for 2 hours this afternoon. It rained the last couple days and it helps on the digging and targets I think. Had a really hard time with it today because of the trash on the edges of the track. In the center it rang out pretty loud and clear on pennies, dimes and quarters.
There certainly needs to be a smaller coil for this machine. There were so many tones and numbers flashing around I couldn't even begins to separate what it was trying to tell me. I decided to disc out everything under 28 and try it. It still seemed to jump around on the VDI screen and depth meter. Of course without a manual GB in our mineralized soil that couldn't have helped either.
I tried slowing down the sweep to a crawl and found it trying to separate targets. Some as close as 1" tones apart but I couldn't get a fix on what they were. Out of curiosity, I dug a few targets that tones high, had a VDI of between 24-36 consistently and found them to be pennies from 87-2002. So i imagine the corrosion didn't help with the stabilization either.
In the center of the track field there was hardly any trash. The machine did really well here and I found several dimes, a quarter and some pennies. Most of the pennies stayed in the 36 range but would jump down to 28 some times and 32 others. All the dimes locked in at 36 and hardly moved.
I planned ahead of time to put solid targets in one pocket and iffy targets in another. When I got home I found that all but one of the pennies with solid locks of 28 were as follows. 1964,65,71,73,79,81 and a new surface 2002. All the iffy pennies were above 82(zinc) and some were corroded.
I also learned that solid lock 44s are mostly pop cans. I got a solid lock on 6 of them about 6=7" down. Wasn't sure what a 44 was but it must indicate mostly larger targets.
One other problems I had with the machine was using the pin pointer. I have gotten used to using the no Motion Pinpointing on my other machines and love the feature. I also use it to check the hole after digging out some dirt for the target. (560 coming next week some this won;t be necessary now) But when I laid the X30 down in Pinpointing mode it just kept on screaming in my ears. I am use to the tone to stop when the machine is laid down. It did this on almost every dig.
Is this an indication that it needs tuned, better GB or what. I wasn't around power lines, fences or metal poles. Not sure what causes it but it annoying.
One other thing that surprised me was, I found two large bolts about 5/8" x 1-1/2" long that locked solid at 36. They were about 4-5" down and didn't ring once on the low tone or in the lower numbers. I also got a thumb tack at about 5" down that rang 36 on the meter. took a long time to find it but I did. Thought it would ID in about 18-24.
Sorry for the long post, but thought this information might help and had some questions. I did manage 11 pennies, 6 dimes and a quarter too.
There certainly needs to be a smaller coil for this machine. There were so many tones and numbers flashing around I couldn't even begins to separate what it was trying to tell me. I decided to disc out everything under 28 and try it. It still seemed to jump around on the VDI screen and depth meter. Of course without a manual GB in our mineralized soil that couldn't have helped either.
I tried slowing down the sweep to a crawl and found it trying to separate targets. Some as close as 1" tones apart but I couldn't get a fix on what they were. Out of curiosity, I dug a few targets that tones high, had a VDI of between 24-36 consistently and found them to be pennies from 87-2002. So i imagine the corrosion didn't help with the stabilization either.
In the center of the track field there was hardly any trash. The machine did really well here and I found several dimes, a quarter and some pennies. Most of the pennies stayed in the 36 range but would jump down to 28 some times and 32 others. All the dimes locked in at 36 and hardly moved.
I planned ahead of time to put solid targets in one pocket and iffy targets in another. When I got home I found that all but one of the pennies with solid locks of 28 were as follows. 1964,65,71,73,79,81 and a new surface 2002. All the iffy pennies were above 82(zinc) and some were corroded.
I also learned that solid lock 44s are mostly pop cans. I got a solid lock on 6 of them about 6=7" down. Wasn't sure what a 44 was but it must indicate mostly larger targets.
One other problems I had with the machine was using the pin pointer. I have gotten used to using the no Motion Pinpointing on my other machines and love the feature. I also use it to check the hole after digging out some dirt for the target. (560 coming next week some this won;t be necessary now) But when I laid the X30 down in Pinpointing mode it just kept on screaming in my ears. I am use to the tone to stop when the machine is laid down. It did this on almost every dig.
Is this an indication that it needs tuned, better GB or what. I wasn't around power lines, fences or metal poles. Not sure what causes it but it annoying.
One other thing that surprised me was, I found two large bolts about 5/8" x 1-1/2" long that locked solid at 36. They were about 4-5" down and didn't ring once on the low tone or in the lower numbers. I also got a thumb tack at about 5" down that rang 36 on the meter. took a long time to find it but I did. Thought it would ID in about 18-24.
Sorry for the long post, but thought this information might help and had some questions. I did manage 11 pennies, 6 dimes and a quarter too.
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