Hi guys, long time lurker here. I got my EX 2 back in mid-September. So far, im still in the learning curve. I got Andy Sabisch's book, and it along with Cody's posts have been a great resource.
My finds have been minimal, alot of Wheaties, and a really nice Indianhead. I have yet to find silver though. The pennies I have found are as deep as 8 inches or so, so I think depth-wise im doing okay.
My problem is alot of false signals. They register as coins, and even give ferrous values of 11 21 and are ususally on the high upper right of the cursor screen. The thing is, sometimes it's a great signal when sweeping one-way, and zero signal sweeping the other way. I dig them just to be sure, but when I get down about 9 inches or so, I lose the signal, nothing in the hole, nothing in the pile. Which lead me to buy the Sunray Probe, (which is pretty neat) but heres the kicker, even the Probe will sound off in the hole sometimes, but it's a staccato signal, the pitch of the signal drops a tone octave or so, almost into the pull tab sound range, but the ferrous readout is still the same, still says coin.
Okay, so, I will dig under the probe, and find nothing. The probe signal is a bit broken up, and ill dig dig dig, and still get a signal from the Probe, but never find any coins.
Here's my settings. Sensitivity is set to 28 ususally but I have gone down to 24. Auto sens is on.
Threshold is set to 9 with the low tone for threshold set to 1. (my ears hurt with the factory preset thresh tone)
I have coins in accept, and foil and nails rejected. the rest are just kept blank.
My gain is set to 10, and I set the tone variation all the way up to 10.
I have been using DEEP recovery option, but not FAST, should I turn DEEP off awhile? will I lose that many targets with it off?
Am I biting off more than I can chew? I dont want to lose depth, but I suspect that the difference between a sens setting of 17 and 30 is pretty negligable. Should I reject out everything except coins and jewlerly?
I live in South central WI about 40 minutes north of Madison. Our soil around here is pretty sandy, so im not sure if that means the iron content is higher or lower.
I guess my question is, based on my settings, should I back off on the sensitivity a bit? and maybe reject out FE Coins? turn the gain down a little? Is my threshold okay at 8 or 9? the factory preset has it at nearly 20 if I remember, and thats too much threshold for me.
Ohh, one more thing, the tone through the Koss headphones really hurt, I have a busted eardrum, and since then certain tones or vibrations make me cringe. Any recommendations of good phones? I was thinking about a pair of Sunrays from Dixie detectors. The review seems good, but I wanted to know what your guys opinion was.
Thanks so much!
Tim
My finds have been minimal, alot of Wheaties, and a really nice Indianhead. I have yet to find silver though. The pennies I have found are as deep as 8 inches or so, so I think depth-wise im doing okay.
My problem is alot of false signals. They register as coins, and even give ferrous values of 11 21 and are ususally on the high upper right of the cursor screen. The thing is, sometimes it's a great signal when sweeping one-way, and zero signal sweeping the other way. I dig them just to be sure, but when I get down about 9 inches or so, I lose the signal, nothing in the hole, nothing in the pile. Which lead me to buy the Sunray Probe, (which is pretty neat) but heres the kicker, even the Probe will sound off in the hole sometimes, but it's a staccato signal, the pitch of the signal drops a tone octave or so, almost into the pull tab sound range, but the ferrous readout is still the same, still says coin.
Okay, so, I will dig under the probe, and find nothing. The probe signal is a bit broken up, and ill dig dig dig, and still get a signal from the Probe, but never find any coins.
Here's my settings. Sensitivity is set to 28 ususally but I have gone down to 24. Auto sens is on.
Threshold is set to 9 with the low tone for threshold set to 1. (my ears hurt with the factory preset thresh tone)
I have coins in accept, and foil and nails rejected. the rest are just kept blank.
My gain is set to 10, and I set the tone variation all the way up to 10.
I have been using DEEP recovery option, but not FAST, should I turn DEEP off awhile? will I lose that many targets with it off?
Am I biting off more than I can chew? I dont want to lose depth, but I suspect that the difference between a sens setting of 17 and 30 is pretty negligable. Should I reject out everything except coins and jewlerly?
I live in South central WI about 40 minutes north of Madison. Our soil around here is pretty sandy, so im not sure if that means the iron content is higher or lower.
I guess my question is, based on my settings, should I back off on the sensitivity a bit? and maybe reject out FE Coins? turn the gain down a little? Is my threshold okay at 8 or 9? the factory preset has it at nearly 20 if I remember, and thats too much threshold for me.
Ohh, one more thing, the tone through the Koss headphones really hurt, I have a busted eardrum, and since then certain tones or vibrations make me cringe. Any recommendations of good phones? I was thinking about a pair of Sunrays from Dixie detectors. The review seems good, but I wanted to know what your guys opinion was.
Thanks so much!
Tim