steve herschbach
New member
Or should it be 3F?
Been out using the Vision. Just a couple notes.
When in the search screen (the bar graph) you get a hit in all three frequencies. They fade in order - weakest frequency first, middling second, and strongest last. So you can tell which frequency is hitting hardest just by looking at the fade rate of the bars.
When you go to pinpoint this gets backed up. Three colored signal strength bars, each indicating which frequency is hitting hardest.
Analyze gives similar frequency indications plus sizing.
You are getting more target info at a glance then ever before. Two different items can give you the same VDI numbers. A beer bottle cap can sound like a coin and give a similar VDI. But the coin will hit harder in 2.5 kHz, and the bottle cap in 22.5 kHz. Same deal with the deep nail that sounds like a coin. The coin will hit harder at the lower frequencies, the nail at the higher.
I was hunting snow dumps with the Vision, and there were lots of pop cans in the snow piles. I'm hunting smaller targets (hopefully gold but usually aluminum) and the deep cans sound and VDI just like the smaller shallower items I am after. But the sizing function nailed them dead on as over-sized, even at depth.
I think the ability to see in real time the exact response in three different frequencies is going to be the Vision's ace in the hole. Used to be just a VDI number, Now it is a combination of VDI, frequency reponse, and size. The jury is out on the depth thing but in my opinion this is the finest discrimination system yet devised for a metal detector.
Do remember that no system is perfect. Signals will degrade with depth and the amount of ground mineralization. How fast you sweep the target and how centered you are will have an effect. You do have to "work" the target just like with any other detector.
But I do see now why they called it the Vision. It's an eye-opener for sure.
Steve Herschbach
P.S. My Bigfoot is working great on the Vision. Jimmy needs to get it back into production ASAP. Then if somebody asked me why they should get a Vision instead of this or that I'd say " because it can run a Bigfoot"!
Been out using the Vision. Just a couple notes.
When in the search screen (the bar graph) you get a hit in all three frequencies. They fade in order - weakest frequency first, middling second, and strongest last. So you can tell which frequency is hitting hardest just by looking at the fade rate of the bars.
When you go to pinpoint this gets backed up. Three colored signal strength bars, each indicating which frequency is hitting hardest.
Analyze gives similar frequency indications plus sizing.
You are getting more target info at a glance then ever before. Two different items can give you the same VDI numbers. A beer bottle cap can sound like a coin and give a similar VDI. But the coin will hit harder in 2.5 kHz, and the bottle cap in 22.5 kHz. Same deal with the deep nail that sounds like a coin. The coin will hit harder at the lower frequencies, the nail at the higher.
I was hunting snow dumps with the Vision, and there were lots of pop cans in the snow piles. I'm hunting smaller targets (hopefully gold but usually aluminum) and the deep cans sound and VDI just like the smaller shallower items I am after. But the sizing function nailed them dead on as over-sized, even at depth.
I think the ability to see in real time the exact response in three different frequencies is going to be the Vision's ace in the hole. Used to be just a VDI number, Now it is a combination of VDI, frequency reponse, and size. The jury is out on the depth thing but in my opinion this is the finest discrimination system yet devised for a metal detector.
Do remember that no system is perfect. Signals will degrade with depth and the amount of ground mineralization. How fast you sweep the target and how centered you are will have an effect. You do have to "work" the target just like with any other detector.
But I do see now why they called it the Vision. It's an eye-opener for sure.
Steve Herschbach
P.S. My Bigfoot is working great on the Vision. Jimmy needs to get it back into production ASAP. Then if somebody asked me why they should get a Vision instead of this or that I'd say " because it can run a Bigfoot"!
