What I learned.......

[Whyme]

I got a Sun Ray X-1 probe 3 days ago for my Explorer SE. I learned a very important lesson in the last 2 days. Make sure the switch is in the position you are using! Yesterday I pinpointed a penny with the probe and forgot to switch it back to disc. Every time I swung right to left I would get a great tone to the far left. I tried pin pointing but it was moving all over the place! After a couple of mins I realized that I left it in probe mode and the change in my right pocket was setting off the probe when I swung it towards me! :P Today I started detecting and for about 5 mins I had no signals in a very trashy park. I thought it was pretty strange, then I looked down and the switch was in probe mode. I must have left it in that mode when I quit yesterday.

But today I have a first! I found my first nickel after digging about 30 pull tabs in the last week. Still learning the machine and just hunting a park that was founded in 1975 so I get nothing but pull tabs, pennies and clad, but I'm learning!

 

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[-Jones-]

hey whyme,

Congrats on the nic

Bigger & better to come, I guarantee, hang with her

Hope to view some of your finds sometime

 

[Sandman]

You will soon start doing better. Forgetting to change the switch back is nothing.

I've got you beat. When I used to use the Fisher 1280, a silent search detector, I would turn it off when getting close to another guy with a 1280 so we could talk without the detectors talking too. On walking away to hunt again I would most likely forget to turn on the detector again and would only notice my mistake when I wondered why I wasn't getting any targets. Things were so silent we would get to waving the coil over the scoop to see it it was still working.

 

[erikk]

Don't feel bad. I think everyone who has the sun Ray probe has done that at least 1/2 a dozen times

 

[TORRERO]

You will soon start doing better. Forgetting to change the switch back is nothing.

I've got you beat. When I used to use the Fisher 1280, a silent search detector, I would turn it off when getting close to another guy with a 1280 so we could talk without the detectors talking too. On walking away to hunt again I would most likely forget to turn on the detector again and would only notice my mistake when I wondered why I wasn't getting any targets. Things were so silent we would get to waving the coil over the scoop to see it it was still working.

OMG ....

That's me for sure...
I used to do that with my old Tesoros....