Tough questions I know you like to limit the questions.

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

How many of you also use different machines by different manufactures and find the V3i is superior or has its place? I am using a friends V3I and have come up with a program that took me a week to tweak. I get some falsing in the upper VDI# and I am not using my RX gain to high. But for me I try and do a lot of relic hunting and am using the V3I for more parks. I have found that a lot of the assessment or ways to use the machine to determine what may be under the coil not too helpful. But that is not a big thing. I also find that on the polar plot if you get some tweaked graphics it may be you have iron mixed in with the good target? I also am having a hard time with the vast VDI range so I tend to dig it all. But have found that small silver to large silver comes in at a range of 50-90.

It is a great balanced machine can swing it all day. Depth has not been something I have seen that would surpass my other machine. And I have found a lot of great info from all of you and I may buy this machine from my friend. I find the 10 DD a great all around coil but does have a larger foot print then my G2...At parks in the swing you have to get a lot more distance between the coil and the metal poles. Again I have a smaller coil for that just to lazy from the Chemo to switch. But I can do that and will do that soon.

I am also interested in mixed mood..I use to have a DFX years back and Jimmy Serria a friend of mine from Marin County told me this a read deep mode. But from what I have read or remember you get the all metal tone in one ear and the disc target in the other. Do you get a VDI in all metal mood. So would you get VDI from the all metal and one from the disc?

Other then that it has been a pleasure being able to try this machine and try and understand it. I am about half way there and then I get stumped but I keep reading in hopes to have a little more of an edge to get this detector to preform for me and maybe buy it.

I am using a G2 and it is a great machine but is not a park hunter...

 

[Rob (IL)]

"I know you like to limit the questions." Now this is news to me. How else could we help if there were no questions. I will say that unless it is something special it is better to ask on the forum instead of in a PM. Also I have to believe every question that can be asked has probably been asked before. The search option is a great tool which I use all the time.

There is mixed mode and Stereo mixed mode. Both are deeper because they use all metal which is deeper than discrimination mode. In both modes you get one VDI reading. In mixed mode you hear the same audio in each ear. You hear the all metal and then if the discrimination mode can detect the target it switches to the discrimination tone. In stereo mixed mode you hear the all metal in one ear and the discrimination in the other. There is no transition you hear both signals all the time.

"I also am having a hard time with the vast VDI range so I tend to dig it all." I'm not sure what you mean by this. The V covers the whole range of metals like all detectors. If you mean there are too many tones you can change these. For instance, you said, But have found that small silver to large silver comes in at a range of 50-90. This is true and if you want you could have all these Vdi have the same tone.

The D2 coil is the hottest coil of the Whites coils. To hunt next to poles it is the wrong choice. One of the smaller coils is what you need. ROB

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

Thanks