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Second Thoughts on V3

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hang7575

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I have a bullet buried 9 inches in my backyard.Took the 10 dd coil off of the V3 and put on my MXT got a solid repeatable bullet ID on every sweep. The V3 I got mostly mixed mode all metel sound and some VDI numbers but nothing repeatable. V3 was in relic mode factory settings with rx gain at 12. I find it very difficult to hunt anywhere near houses and wires due to Emi I guess from wireless internet. I have to turn gain down to 2 or 3 to use it, were the mxt is usable at full gain. Anybody else notice this or am I missing some thing. Some guidance on different programs or settings . Thanks Andy
 
I don't know about the relic issue, but I do know that wireless internet, cell phones, and buried power lines do NOT interfere with my V3. I have all those at my house and it doesn't interfere with the V3 at all.
 
If the ground conditions allow, the conical coil will get better depth than a DD coil. As far as the noise goes I would think the electronics for a single frequency detector could handle EMI rejection better than a three frequency detector, (complexity??), but this sounds like a question for the engineers. I have noticed the V being more susceptible to EMI than the DFX, especially around power transformers. I can't seem to get within 200 feet of one without the V going bonkers.
 
or underground utilities will mess you up if you're over them. Those invisible fences are hard to hunt around though.

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No this was in my backyard , no underground wires, 25yards from my house 50yards from closest powerlines,Gietting falses every 5 secs or so had to lower gain to 2 or 3 to get it to stop, frequency shift did absolutly nothing to correct it. Changed coils with same results. It seems to be worsre when the weather is overcast after a rain an there is alot of humidity in the air.??
 
I had the same Beep problem when I was hunting near an electric fence. About every 5 seconds or so I would get a nice loud beep, just like going over a target. I found that if, under the Frequency Settings, I changed my detector to run on correlate instead of best data, it allowed me to keep my gain and sensitivity set a good bit higher than if I didn't. Actually, I couldn't get the beep to stop at all until I made this change. I had tried each different frequency independently and had also tried adjusting the frequency offset above and below the factory relic setting of +1.
 
hang7575 said:
robertk what programs are you using and at what gain setting I would like to try them. Thanks Andy
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Most of the time I'm in coin mode or coin and jewelry. Factory settings except I have tone ID and VCO pinpoint on. The ground probe typically recommends gain of 15. I can run 15 at home (right outside the room with the wireless router). At the building I hunt in town, I have to turn it down some (7 to 10) -- if I run the recommended 15 there, it gets a bit unstable. There's no wi-fi there, but there are both overhead and underground power lines there, on opposite sides of the yard.
 
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