I don't know if this will work everywhere but in my backyard it did.
I was reading Critter's post about running the sens at around 2:00 so I decided to give it a try. It did work well but I noticed something I have never noticed before. With the sens at 2:00 to 3:00 you need to swingthe coil faster to get a better hit. In fact I found that, with the sens set that low, if I really slowed down my swing to a crawl Iwould not get a hit on known targets. So I tried raising the sens to 11:00 and found the opposite to be true, a slower swing was better... in auto a faster swing gave a better initial hit and a better TID. So, my conclusions from this one site, my garden, are this: if you lower the sens... swing faster. If you raise the sens swing slower.
Also I noticed that I could get a better TID on a couple of targets by slightly raising the coil off the ground. I would pinpoint, switch back to disc and wiggle. I was having a hard time getting a good TID with the coil on the ground so I lifted it. At about 1" to 1.5" I would get a good TID.... i've never noticed this before. Also on a couple of targets a wider wiggle seemed to improve the TID. This may be because the targets are at about 8" and have been in the ground for about 2 months or so, I don't know. I also tried bypassing my meter and inline probe. I didn't spend enough time to tell if I was getting a better audio signal but I wonder sometimes how much signal is lost when it is passed through both a meter and a switch in the probe box. If you know about guitar effects you'll know that something called "true bypass" is desirable becase a regular switch will cause some of the signal between the guitar and amplifier to be lost... this may be the case with meters and inline probes that don't use a "true bypass" circuit. http://www.muzique.com/lab/truebypass.htm
I guess this is a question for Critter to explore..
Anyway.. if you raise the disc sens to 2:00 try swinging faster, tell me what you think.
Julien
I was reading Critter's post about running the sens at around 2:00 so I decided to give it a try. It did work well but I noticed something I have never noticed before. With the sens at 2:00 to 3:00 you need to swingthe coil faster to get a better hit. In fact I found that, with the sens set that low, if I really slowed down my swing to a crawl Iwould not get a hit on known targets. So I tried raising the sens to 11:00 and found the opposite to be true, a slower swing was better... in auto a faster swing gave a better initial hit and a better TID. So, my conclusions from this one site, my garden, are this: if you lower the sens... swing faster. If you raise the sens swing slower.
Also I noticed that I could get a better TID on a couple of targets by slightly raising the coil off the ground. I would pinpoint, switch back to disc and wiggle. I was having a hard time getting a good TID with the coil on the ground so I lifted it. At about 1" to 1.5" I would get a good TID.... i've never noticed this before. Also on a couple of targets a wider wiggle seemed to improve the TID. This may be because the targets are at about 8" and have been in the ground for about 2 months or so, I don't know. I also tried bypassing my meter and inline probe. I didn't spend enough time to tell if I was getting a better audio signal but I wonder sometimes how much signal is lost when it is passed through both a meter and a switch in the probe box. If you know about guitar effects you'll know that something called "true bypass" is desirable becase a regular switch will cause some of the signal between the guitar and amplifier to be lost... this may be the case with meters and inline probes that don't use a "true bypass" circuit. http://www.muzique.com/lab/truebypass.htm
I guess this is a question for Critter to explore..
Anyway.. if you raise the disc sens to 2:00 try swinging faster, tell me what you think.
Julien