Which is best-----High Discrimination # 20 or Low Discrimination -Less than 10

[reconj]

I have saw that #20 Dis will give you more deep targets, but also see that lower than #10 will do the same- Ok the more in Dis. will give you less trash, but will it give more in depth ? Which way is the way most guys are going now ?

 

[Mr.Bill]

Try to put little stock into what others are setting their units up to. Unless your hunting with them in the same area, someone else's settings may not do you any good at all.

You have to use the setting you feel most comfortable with. With all due respect, it sounds like you want your cake and eat it. If your concerned with maximum depth, run it wide open. Don't let the depth thing get in your way to making sensible settings that will make your usage far more productive.

With that said, why not try a little test bed, or perhaps some air test ? Granted were not hunting coins in the air, but one needs some means of understanding of how, and what the adjustments affect before going into the field. Would this be 100% correct, no but it will set you in the right direction. Best may be just throwing down a few coins on the ground your going to hunt on, and see how the detector will react, then & there to your adjustments. This will put you close for hunting in that area. I allways have a small box nail with me I throw down on the ground to set my low end discrimination with. If I deceide to notch out anything, I do it after finding the items in the place I'm hunting. Trash like pull tabs react differently, in differnt soil. The need to set the notch for them is importaint to do right there.

After a while it will all come together, and you will end up with a few favorite settings for the areas you hunt.

Good luck, I hope this helps you find plenty.

 

[Mike Hillis]

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[Streak!]

it tends to give cleaner more soild signals with most any machine. Sure, you'll hear more, but thats the whole point.

 

[AndyNM]

If you can run disc lower than 5 or higher than 19 in DE mode without the detector going nuts go ahaed and switch to the hot JE mode. In JE mode the disc setting has no effect to the (preamp)gain. Use the disc you want in JE mode and get high gain from disc 0 to 99.

Andy,NM

 

[MattR]

[quote Andy,NM]If you can run disc lower than 5 or higher than 19 in DE mode without the detector going nuts go ahaed and switch to the hot JE mode. In JE mode the disc setting has no effect to the (preamp)gain. Use the disc you want in JE mode and get high gain from disc 0 to 99.

Andy,NM[/quote]

Andy...What is this pre amp gain you refer to?

Also, "the disc has no effect in Je mode".???????????

 

[Streak!]

when your hunting in De mode, and you go over 20 in disc, you get a noticable boost in front end power. It may be a boost in Preamp gain. (not sure EXACTLY what is does, but there IS a noticable difference in sensitivity). When your hunting in JE mode however, the boost is already there, so there is no change when you go over 20 on your disc setting. There is no actual preamp setting you can control yourself, like in the DFX or XLT for example. I think its there to try to compensate for the decrease on depth experienced in ALL machines wehn you crank up the disc. Streak!

 

[AndyNM]

n/t