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VX3

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mickfin

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How many people got a Whites VX3 yet??? I Just got one and i Like it, Diden`t get to take her out very much yet??????
But i Customized the Demo for a Custom Program, Like Acc all VDIs # and turning up the sensitivity for a good Hunt,
In Hops to find good targets masked by Bad ones??? If someone can give me some advice on this kind of Hunting of what thy have done,
Or a idea??? it will be appreciated, Thanks, mickfin
 
So No one got a VX3 yet???? Am i the first in the world??? LOL Mic, Thanks,
 
I was going to get the VX3 but I got the V3I :twodetecting::cheers:
 
Looks like it Mic, :rofl: but I don't really think so. You will not need to do anything different with the VX3, advice will be the same for the V3i. ROB
 
Thanks guys 4R the Look see, Mickfin
 
I have a V3i and it works more or less the same as your detector. First go in and make your detector accept all VDIs, then I would suggest you go and assign a zero tone to all VDIs -94 thru -31 and add +95 to that list as well.. Then you can assign whatever tone/s you feel comfortable with for the accepted VDIs -30 thru +94. You should note digging treasure in trash you will be digging a lot of different VDIs. Just remember a target's VDI can be affected by a good adjacent target/s or a bad adjacent target/s, Deep targets, although good, may exhibit erratic or low VDIs as well on your VX3. I would work off of your factory coin and jewelry program making small changes in settings as you get more acquainted with your detector. Something else I recommend is to get you some coins, jewelry, nails, pull tabs, can slaw etc. Mix these items by placing them in different configurations on the ground. In doing so listen carefully to your tone, monitor your different VDI readings, pinpoint the different setups and look at them using all your analyze screens. Also remember to raise and lower your coil and look at your data and monitor your tone. Experiment with different recovery delays swing speeds, sensitivity settings etc.. Last, I would recommend locking your tracking after ground balancing when hunting trashy areas, rebalancing every 15 minutes or sooner if your detector seems to get noisy.
 
Thank You Squirril1 The VX3 cant assine tones to VDI#s But i get the idea??? Thanks, mickfin
 
Whoops sorry about that. Not being able to assign tones to VDIs will make things a bit more tricky when hunting real trrashy areas. A smaller coil would probably be the simplest way to curb some of the iron and trash you will be hearing along side good targets. Using the stock coil I would consider discriminating out all signals below 6 VDI in trashy areas and run my recovery delay at 40 and move real slow.
 
That`s OK i think listing to all the tones would be ok a - tone would be a low tone??? As fare as recovery speed do you think 40 would give a ok deepth
I think G/B is the most importent thing we can set???? mickfin
 
Mic the shorter recovery really doesn't cost depth really. The shorter time can cause the signal to become short or clipped. This might make them harder to hear and indirectly cost some deeper targets. If this happens just increase it until you get the good tone. ROB
 
The on the fly adjustment capabilities of the V series detectors is a superb feature. One thing one needs to watch is at times I have noticed changing settings may or will improve your target ID, but remember the ole ground balancing thingy. In trashy areas this is not always easy to do. Another thing is you must consider hunting your sites multiple times. There is no total (minesweeper) general purpose detector out there for coins and jewelry. Don't be afraid to use single frequency to examine your different sites multiple times. Don't forget you can always go back to 3 freq to analyze your target. The different frequencies will in themselves aid in your discrimination. I'll give you an example of some thing that happened to me. I have a 100 acre field that I hunt that was used back in the late 1700's early 1800's by soldiers guarding the Crossing of the Cumberland river here in Tn. These fields have buttons in them and lots of iron too. The buttons are low conductors hence the 22.5 freq hits hard but 22.5 doesn't hit so hard on iron and other high conductors plus you don't get extreme depth with 22.5 freq. So the buttons really stand out. There are other similar advantages that can be obtained using the other 2 freqs too.
 
I think you would do well to get the recovery up around 60 or better Mick. I like Recovery at 90 because it give a real nice "round" sound instead of a short beep or blip and on deep targets that tells me that it is a target to dig and just not a piece of junk.

Instead of tone assignment you can confidently discriminate out the VDI's you do not want to hear without losing depth IMHO. The faster microprocessor used in the V series can quickly recover from a discriminated VDI to ID a good target next to it. An easy test is to place a pulltab and a nickel next to each other and reject the main VDI of the tab......... you should still be able to hear the nickel.
 
Thanks for the tip Larry, Mick
 
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