The Gti 1500 notch system

[steve]

Hi i was wondering if any1 can verify the signals given by the 1500 & offer knowledge on best notch accept reject setup. Sometimes i get great tones/signals like constant 9's & 10's but find iron at the end of them. Also 5.5 i seem to get iron. 4 lock on can be tin can & 7.5 also lock on is tin can. Nothing like the discrim above the reading screen. Are yank tin cans different conductivity to ours? Another lock on target is 12... no other notch reading just 12 is iron (i find) ...any1 here offer advice on what possibilities notches can be as in what lock on targets identify good finds coz i dont think iv found 2 the same yet offering the same find apart from the cans.

Kind Regards Steve

 

[High Desert Jim]

Steve,

If you aren't using and relying on the treasure imaging you will work yourself to death.

 

[steve]

Hi Jim & thanks for quick reply. I do use the imaging all the time & find it useful only on coins. Tin cans give me all diff notches & tone which are supposed to be quickly identifyable via notch setup but im getting them reading lockon 4, lockon 7.5, 8 and sometimes 9 all saying can sized. And 6.5 lockon is misleading as i have had exactly the same brand tin cans as 4 & 7.5 notches give me...exactly the same name brand drink cans. Is there such an array of signals for example tin cans or did Garrett misplace the icon & should have added about 4 more? The belltone is given on 9 lockon suggesting a good target find but im finding cans (mainly) at 7.5 lockon) with normal high tone which is away from the can icon which is at 9? All i wanted to know basically is are American cans different conductivity to ours or is the Imiging extra on my 1500 not stable or correct as first prompted my purchase?

Kind Regards Steve

 

[High Desert Jim]

Steve,

Here is what I am understanding. You are saying that coins are coming up at 12 on your lower scale. This would identify a silver dollar. Then when you push treasure imaging it still identifies a silver dollar but the imaging is reading a can either c, d, or e.

What you need to do is simply this. Just pay attention to the treasure imaging. If it reads anything over a coin size don't dig it.

HDJ

 

[High Desert Jim]

A little more info for you. It's not unusual for a soft drink can to sound like a coin, and they will come up at different places on your id scale depending on how they are bent, or if they are bent.

If you get a 9.5 reading and you go to treasure imaging and it says that it's coin size dig, if you see it's a soft drink D size don't.

Sure Hope I have been able to help you. If not let me know, I will walk you through it

HDJ

 

[steve]

Hi Jim & thanks for your info. The thing is i live in the UK and over here we have ancient dwellings all over the country from neolithic through to stone,bronze & iron age, countless roman & medieval settlements & the majority of finds through them eras use all the notch scale including the imaging size "can" irrespective of notch, commonly reaps coin hoards & especially lead artifacts. There are as many can sized targets here as there are coin targets & most of the can sized ones are worth the dig, thats the prob i have you see... i didnt realise about the good belltone & bad notch reading would have such an array due to the can being bent differently,i should have realised.I really appreciate your replys though my friend, any help is good help .

On another topic, im not sure if its Uk land or what lol but with this Gti i get different readings when walking different ways over a find....which one am i to believe....one way its a good 6...another its a 12 then 3 & 5 respectivly...i didnt get this when using the 9inch scorcher... using the 12.5 imaging now, should i be walking just east to west or what?...lol lol

 

[Uncle Willy]

If you have all these varied sized objects, many being valuable, you should be hunting in zero discrimination and digging everything regardeless of notch or image. You are basically relic hunting and when doing that you dig it all. You could be passing up a host of goodies. The 1500 was basically designed to be a coinshooter, and a dandy one it is, but if you're digging relics or caches don't hunt for them like you'd hunt for coins.

Bill

 

[mhazy]

Hi,
I live in the UK and use a 1500
don't know what you are doing but

1. don't come across many cans

2. alway's use relics setting

3. never had any problems and will allways but garretts


only thing I can say is to trust the imaging

it's never let me down


finally wonder what part of the Uk you are in


is a a major city with a lot of trash

just wondering

Mhazy

 

[steve]

Hi mhazy...im in Northants...in amongst the old stuff. The thing i wanted to know basically was can sized targets when hitting the possible tin can notch do seem to be the latter, but mid range can sized targets should really produce the target identified... I.E : notch 6 "lockon" target CAN sized should in theory be a gold cache as machine predicts but 90% of the time im digging these good cache can sized targets get nothing but cans all the time....that was my initial querey, being an american machine are their cans different conductivity to brithish ones hense all the cans from good target alerts. If a gold cache is found at say 10inches & im getting 6 lockon target which the machine says is a possibility, im going to be tempted just to leave it because of the shere fact its going to be a can.....or understandably i would be thinking.....you see what i mean about wanting to know the stability of the ID notch system?.....& yes i know & understand exactly what this machine is...thats the reason i bought it... to coin shoot..i cant fault it for that at all but i didnt realise tin cans had such an array of signals...i know now that may be due to the way the can is bent in the ground & how old it is.....best coinshooter in the world if you ask me but pointless putting notch ID's for other targets such as gold caches where they are, between 4 & 8 should have "deffinate tin can" ID above...my opinion only.

Kind Regards Steve