Weeks worth of finds with my BH TR4 and BH 505

[deliveryboy]

I still love the TR4 I am finding the BH 505 to be somewhat confusing with all the beeping, turned down the sensitivity a bit and it seems to help. Just hunted my local parks and the tot lots. Last week I cashed in $20 worth of change. I love this hobby!

 

[Trackerman]

Nice good job. The tracker IV is great love mine find all sorts of stuff with it too.

 

[Ed in SoDak]

With the 505, try slowing your sweep a bit and instead of a full width swing when you try to ID, narrow that puppy down to just kinda hover over the target, to maybe a coil width or so in swing travel. The LS can respond fairly quickly and you may be able to better separate out all those different beeps. Some can be a "double beep" as a target hits the coil edges. If you have multiple targets, well, it can get kinda busy down there. A more narrow sweep helps reduce that effect so you can concentrate more on a single signal/tone and try to prove it up by repeatable ID.

-Ed

 

[matthias]

Nice job! Keep it up! HH. Matt

 

[deliveryboy]

Thanks for the tips Ed, I am pretty good at pinpointing with it via all metal mode. I guess what really throws me off is apparently it beeps a single random tone when coil approaches any metal (i.e.posts) this seems unnecessary IMO and adds to the confusion of what signals I'm trying to decipher. I think it should just have been made like other machines where it simply signals you on targets rather than surroundings also. I also notice sometimes it will chatter quite randomly and I will have to turn sensitivity all the way down. The 505 seems to be more sand oriented IMO, grass seems to confuse it more.

 

[Ed in SoDak]

Falsing in grass sounds like a possible coil issue. Maybe the shield wire or Faraday shield around the coil is flaky. Can you swap in a different coil?

Otherwise, some Land Stars and 505 machines seem more high-strung than others. This may result from varied factory tuning or perhaps the manufacture date is different, meaning BH may have changed or upgraded some of them internally over the years.

Generally, more sensitive is better, but it can also be a nuisance in some places.

Beyond that, was there anything in the area, like a WiFi spot, your cell phone, powerlines, etc. that might explain some of the issues?

-Ed