XS Sovereign tones?

[Mick in Dubbo]

I managed to catch up with my detecting buddy who owns an XS today.
I was particularly interested at how it would hear coins after going over various bits of iron. Worked quite well. I noticed that it only gave the same tone on all targets,regardless of what they were made of. According to the owner, it doesn't put out any other tones. (He has owned it since they came out.) Isn't it supposed to be a multi tone machine, or was this a feature that came out in later models?
Thanks.
Mick Evans.

 

[Art (NWOH)]

Either his detector was modified to just one tone, he is hunting in all metal, or it is broke.
The 2a has a switch to select multi-tone or fixed tone (same tone as all metal) in disc mode.
Most of us consider the fixed tone option to be worthless, because it tells you nothing about the targets.

HH

 

[John(H)]

Either his detector was modified to just one tone, he is hunting in all metal, or it is broke.
The 2a has a switch to select multi-tone or fixed tone (same tone as all metal) in disc mode.
Most of us consider the fixed tone option to be worthless, because it tells you nothing about the targets.

HH

................................My XS has the multi-tones!!..................Joe

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Mick, unless someone messed with your friends XS, it is broken. All Sov's were multi-tone. For a while we had a Fixed/Multitone toggle switch but that was rarely used. Why not use the Sov to its full extent? A big part of a Sov is its multi-tone ability. They can be set for a fixed tone but again, I wouldn't recommend it. It can distinguish between many types of metal via conductivity.
GH, David@Dixie

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

broken. We definitely had the toggle switch in Disc mode, switching to pinpoint mode when required. He has just had the speaker replaced. He is 84 years young, but he seems so much younger and full of cheek. He has been thinking about replacing it, but won't part with the current one. I also noticed that in pinpoint, you had to keep the coil moving or loose the signal. I assume that it should be a non motion pinpoint.
I got to play with it for a while and found it was easy to pick pull tabs, with a slow pinpoint. They gave off a double beep. listening to the way the signal ramps up and how wide they were, plus a tight sharp pinpoint were good coin indicators.
The machine seems well balanced, but I think that due to it's lay out, it would cause a large number of RSI related injuries, due to the coil being too far away from your feet. I could feel an undue amount of strain on both my wrist and elbow while swinging it. I think that you would have to cut the lower rod down a fair bit and if a meter was to be installed, I think that you'd have to consider having the coil cable cut down to be able to fit both it, and the meter cable onto the shaft.
Mick Evans.

 

[Art (NWOH)]

Sovs are motion only machines........in both all metal and disc mode. There is NO no motion mode.
I found it easiest to live with with the rod shortened up so that the rod hangs in my hand with the coil just in front of my feet and just a bit off the ground. Less arm strain and better movement control.
HH