Tried out my SE Pro today Still have some questions???? HELP!!

[DAVID@RT6DETECTORS]

Took my SE out today at an older school. I tried a program that is in the explorer, e-trac book just to have something to go by. Found a few clad coins. Still going to take some time getting used to it. One question I have. Why do I have so much blanking of the threshold? I had sensitivity between 17 and 22 most of the time. Is that normal to have all the blanking?


Crevias
Keep Diggin!!!
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[NeilinFR]

The detector will null when you pass over any target youve got discriminated out. In a trashy area, or any area with a lot of targets this will happen more frequently. Try going to your iron mask screen, opening it all the way up and then adding a few bars of disc, just enough to say knock out a paperclip which would be small iron.
This will get your detector out of a null faster and cause it to null a whole lot less.
Your sens setting is a different story and youve got to play with that to see what works best at your sites. If you swing your detector over clean ground and the threshold breaks up youve got to much sens dialed in so back off until the threhold sounds and remains stable. A null/blank is fine, Im talking about a sputtering of the threshold. If you want an idea of how it should sound, put it in semi auto and set it at say 20 and see how it sounds. Experiment on targets you find when you find them, get a good feel for the detector, its a good one!
HH
Neil

 

[Brett]

Crevias, what program from the book are you running? You can just give me a page number if you don't wanna type it all in.. I've got the book.

NeilinFR, has most of it covered there in his post...

I would also like to add that even if you just use the Iron Mask mode and set it to 27, you'll still get plenty of nulling if you are in a spot that has a lot of iron. Even if you don't think there should be a lot of iron there, you'd be surprised at how many nails I find in park fields. If your detector is nulling a lot... no matter what patterns you are running, you are going to have to slow down your sweep speed to a crawl. That is unless you just want to dig surface targets that will come in loud and clear.

Sounds like you are running a coins only program and have a lot of trash targets... in this type of setting I would run iron mask at 27 and go really slow. You'll be bombarded with sounds... but it is the only way you are going to find something deep next to a bunch of surface trash. Really slow is maybe 3 or 4 seconds swinging from left to right (one pass)... almost as if you are pinpointing for a target... or um... using the detector as a stethoscope and looking for that heart beat in the ground

I would get out of that trashy irony stuff and lay some targets on the ground at first. You could also go wood chip hunting at the tot lots and only dig the shallow stuff for now to get an idea of what's what. Stay at least 3 feet away from poles and chain link fences though, unless you have the sensitivity way way down.

Keep reading that book and you're going to be figuring things out fast.

HH!