GoldChaser
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Hello everyone, I am a long-time MXT owner who has been in hibernation for a few years, and am now about to start up again and buy a V3i + the Detech 13" coil.
One of my biggest challenges has been in situations where a piece of iron is big enough (2"x3"x1/4" as an example) to show up as a high conductor with a high VDI. One thing I learned was if I had my 6x10 DD Eclipse coil on the MXT, if I was getting a very strong high conductor VDI and signal, if I could then back up and just put the tip of the coil on the object it would remove the high-conductor-due-to-large-object-size signal and the MXT would then read the object by its metallic component, which was iron in this case. This saved me a LOT of digging. So my question is - Can you do the same thing with the 13" coil on the V3i? With my 6x10 I wouldn't scan the object with a side-to-side motion of the tip of the coil, rather I would move the coil forward-and-back using only the tip of the coil to 'touch' (with the signal) the object. I presume this is because the coil signal profile was rather narrow front-to-back, leaving a narrow point at the front of the signal. Whereas a 13" DD may have a broader 'tip' of the signal making that scan more difficult. Has anyone experimented with this? Also curious about the same with the 10"DD.
Thanks so much!
One of my biggest challenges has been in situations where a piece of iron is big enough (2"x3"x1/4" as an example) to show up as a high conductor with a high VDI. One thing I learned was if I had my 6x10 DD Eclipse coil on the MXT, if I was getting a very strong high conductor VDI and signal, if I could then back up and just put the tip of the coil on the object it would remove the high-conductor-due-to-large-object-size signal and the MXT would then read the object by its metallic component, which was iron in this case. This saved me a LOT of digging. So my question is - Can you do the same thing with the 13" coil on the V3i? With my 6x10 I wouldn't scan the object with a side-to-side motion of the tip of the coil, rather I would move the coil forward-and-back using only the tip of the coil to 'touch' (with the signal) the object. I presume this is because the coil signal profile was rather narrow front-to-back, leaving a narrow point at the front of the signal. Whereas a 13" DD may have a broader 'tip' of the signal making that scan more difficult. Has anyone experimented with this? Also curious about the same with the 10"DD.
Thanks so much!