Explorer SE: Pinpointing gets a weird sound not like VCO...

[billjustbill]

It seems odd when pinpointing that if the small object is close to the top of the ground, I get a weird tone. It's not the tone of varation, VCO, as you go to,on,and passed the object. It's not the overload tone either.

What am I hearing and why?

Bill

 

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[DFX-SE Gregg]

It seems odd when pinpointing that if the small object is close to the top of the ground, I get a weird tone. It's not the tone of varation, VCO, as you go to,on,and passed the object. It's not the overload tone either.

What am I hearing and why?

Bill

Bill I think I get this with the dfx and se...lets you know coin is a surface find...why I do not know...but instead of digging I just pop the coin strange up.

 

[billjustbill]

Good call, Gregg. It makes sense....Thanks.

Also, is the SE's sound for silver coins lower for a reason?

My old XS had such a high squeal when silver was found.

I'm still learning...

Bill

 

[DFX-SE Gregg]

Good call, Gregg. It makes sense....Thanks.

Also, is the SE's sound for silver coins lower for a reason?

My old XS had such a high squeal when silver was found.

I'm still learning...

Bill

Go into main menu...then audio, then sounds. Try the three different choices... I like conduct. Seems to give a nice high pitched response to silver.

 

[Ant]

I posted this the other day:

I would say the bull’s eye is about an inch or so in front of the M logo on the slim line coil. I found that turning the pinpoint on with the coil off of the ground and away from the target is best. But sometimes I have to swing the coil over the target with the coil off the ground and then slowly start to work it back down towards the target, thus it might sound off. And if that happens you’ll have to start the pin point all over again, the manual states this.

Once I get the coil down close to the target in pinpoint mode I can hear the target start to chirp, I do this in a cross pattern (I only do that part on hard to located items and trashy areas, no need to swing the off the ground in clean areas). After that I make a judgment as to the target's location. Then I place the coil near or on the ground, and in front of the target. At this point I start to slide the coil slowly forwards until the tip of the coil starts to pick it up. When the machine starts to pick up the target I take note and keep sliding the coil forward. Then I take note as to when the sound get loudest/strongest. Then I step over 90 degrees to complete my cross pattern and do the same thing. And when the signal gets loudest I can almost be certain at this point that the target in centered. It takes practice and sometimes you need make more than one cross pattern while in pin point to center the target. Just learn slowly and you will start to get faster.

I hope this helps.

If you use that method you can get as close I did on these 4 iffy wheat cents pictured below, they were under that root. Last weekend I dug them up in the form of a pocket spill. The black circle marks the location I dug a 44 mercury dime. That was the second weekend for me at using the SE and I think that I’m going to try ferrous sounds in the all metal mode, like the pros do. Or at least start backing off on my iron mask. I’m not a pro by any means.

This is the link the photos came from.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,162356.0.html