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What settings effect the accuracy of the depth

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guage? The depth guage seemed to be pretty accurate until lately, now its showing targets deeper than they really are and I'm digging some shallow targets I would prefer pass over.
I have bumped up the gain to 7 but thats just supposed to amp the audio signal right? What about sens, I have been running a fairly high sens in manual.
Thanks for any suggestions.
 
The position of the object relative to the center of the coil will affect depth. Objects which are not centered will appear deeper. Also the size of the object seems to afect depth -- smaller objects read deeper than they really are. I'm not aware of any setting that will affect the depth meter. Try swinging the coil over the target from multiple directions and take the shallowest depth.
 
If you changed coils and went to an 8" the targets will read 3" or so deeper than they really are. HH-Coinshooter65.
 
I did change coils, its the Joey coil I'm struggling with. The Joey is 9.5 inches though so I thought it should be fairly accurate, but I'm getting just what you said, its showing targets about 3 inches deeper than they really are.
 
Hi Charles, I don't know about the Joey. I use the SunRay Stealth 8". If this has been happening just since you started using the Joey though I'd surely think that's the reason. Anyway it's not really much of a problem. After awhile you just learn to live with it and you can still tell the depth of your targets after you calibrate the difference in your head. HH-Coinshooter65
 
I don't understand why they don't adjust the signal on these coils to give the correct depth. I have the SunRay 5" and have been reluctant to use it because of the exaggerated depth readings I've heard about. So the Joey does it too? How about the other 8" coils.........very frustrating!
 
I hardly even look at the depth gauge.. I just keep the gain at 6 and I can tell the depth just by volume of the signal
 
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