Silver Sabre & uMax Questions --- "hot" Machines?

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah they snapped, crackled, and popped, for sure. I remember the Inca and it was a doozy with silent search. Do you ever see any of those floating around on the classifieds or Ebay. Would be nice to pick one up to play with. The widow of one of my best friends still has their old Compass IB's and I'm tempted to buy them to play with.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Most any detector is noisy if you crank the sensitivity up in the wrong area or in trashy sites. I keep working at getting the newbies to start out with low sensitivity until they learn their machines but they all think it's like an accelerator pedal and the higher you crank it the closer to China they will get. I keep telling them it ain't a depth control but they think if you crank it to the max you can find that target in China.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I never had any noise problems with any of my Sabres, but then under the circumstances you described it can happen.

Bill

 

[Monte]

Recent photos show virtually no vegetation! Last time I was there the tall yellow grass was waist high and almost impenetrable.

Monte

 

[Monte]

MonteVB@comcast.net

 

[Michigan Badger]

[quote Uncle Willy]Most any detector is noisy if you crank the sensitivity up in the wrong area or in trashy sites. I keep working at getting the newbies to start out with low sensitivity until they learn their machines but they all think it's like an accelerator pedal and the higher you crank it the closer to China they will get. I keep telling them it ain't a depth control but they think if you crank it to the max you can find that target in China.

Bill[/quote]

that usually the target signal stays the same even with less sensitivity. The exception would be on those very weak signals.

I dug an indian cent at a good 10+ inches one day while hunting with the sensitivity maxed-out. I found with the Tejon if one ground balances the detector nearly perfectly, one gets a lot less chatter in max. sensitivity.

The indian I dug gave only a very faint sound almost like than of a tiny piece of foil. I dug a 6-inch hole and then used my hand to slowly work my way down to it. I was really surprised because I figured at that depth it was a jar lid. The indian was the only metal in the hole.

Another interesting thing is my Tejon will only sound-off about 8 inches on a freshly buried corroded indian cent.

 

[Michigan Badger]

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[KCK]

Thanks for your reply in advance!
I appreciate your expertise!

KCK/Ohio

 

[Uncle Willy]

Good luck bud.

Bill

 

[Monte]

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[Michigan Badger]

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