will Manual ground balancing the vaquero: will it help eliminate HOT ROCKS?

[Treasurechic]

O.K. heres another question on the hot rock issue, will the vaquero, being a manual ground balance machine eliminate most hot rocks or to say it differently, does it have an advantage to a fixed ground balance and how to you achieve the process? COME ON ALL YOU TESORO FANS! HELP ME OUT I own a whites and want to come to your side of the force so to speak!

 

[tabdog]

I can tune hot rocks to respond to my Vaquero,
or I can tune Vaquero to not respond to hot
rocks. It works both ways if I so desire.

The V is a good all around machine. But you
most be an analog user.

Rather than everything being set and decided
for you, with the V, it is up to you to set the
machine properly.

It is also up to you to decide what to dig.

That way you can learn, rather than responding
to comands from a program.

Happy Hunting,

 

[Beale]

I thing you could turn the sens up to the point that they would not hit? Ok I just read that you can do a GB to either see or not see the "hot rocks'. I am not positive on this. If I am reading Monte's post correctly. You can actually turn a good site to bad by doing a GB wrong. I do know I get some hot rocks/slag/? hits on both my detectors. If you tune the hot rocks out you may be risking tuning out a good hit. All of this is IMHO, Beale.

 

[tabdog]

You can tune the rocks to respond or not.

You have to use your head.

If making the rocks silent, makes the MD

not perform well in the soil you are hunting

in, then you will need to put up with the hot

rocks. You can tell the hot rocks with a

little practice. I think it is easy.

Whites and other brands of MD's face

the same problem. But some of those

models do not give you the choice of

how you handle hot rocks. Or they don't

let the user know they can control this problem.

That is where, in my opinion, the Vaquero has

an advantage over most TID models.

That is not to say that all TID metal detectors

do not have these qualities.

There are really good TID MD's out there.

This is just my opinion.

Happy Hunting,

 

[therover]

I have read and tried this as well....when a hot rock hits and you go into pin point mode, they usually do not sound off or they 'move' from where the initial hit in discrim mode was.

I know that when I go into pin point mode on some of my other detectors, they do not sound off. With the XL-PRO, the meter pegs hard to the right in all cases of hot rocks, so it's pretty easy.

Also, in my area, most of the hot rocks are very shallow, so the loud, wide target of a hot rock is easy to figure out.

Just wondering about the V since that along with a Tejon is on my short list of next detectors to get !!

JC

 

[tabdog]

Hay Therover,

My experience is that they will
respond with a slight change in
the threshold tone.

The tone can rise on hot rocks
or there can be a lose of tone.
I have found the positive responses
are far more common.

The farther you turn the GB knob
to the right, the more of a rise in
threshold that will be experienced.

Hope that is not too muddy of an
explanation.

But the hot rock should be seen as
ground response in all metal mode.

Not a target response.

Happy Hunting,