Took my new machine out, it was raining, wet sand, but there’s never any time like the present to learn the quirks of a new machine. It has a notable delay from the coil. I didn’t dig every beep as a result but learned this was a common observation after I returned. Spent an hour, and much of that, I learned, was spent digging off target and being confused and disappointed that I spent money on this, due to the observed delay. 40 cents spendable and what you can see…it was high tide, I just had to test it. Pleased with the portability and weight for what I have planned for it, I’m sure that I’ll learn its quirks and bond with it, I’m just not in that zone yet.
Considering reworking the broken machine as a home job project, once I determine which parts got salted up that is, anyone done this from schematics? I found the forum for such things.
With the “notable delay” do you mean between the coil passing over a target and the sound in the headphones? What machine is it?
MK
I don’t need to find mines, nuggets or freezers buried with weapons caches so I bought the go find 20 from mine lab, my neighbour is going to show me one I might upgrade to, but frankly, I paid for my last beginner one over eight times with finds, black being the better place to be, but I think it’s a product of the square head. It might be helpful if I could find a picture of the detection field for a square head. Finds copper a treat, here is my last 2.5 hours of bonding with it…with iron turned off, second level sensitivity, see how it found other metal in those oxidised lumps.
The spoon says Trenton s/s, looks like it’s had a bite out of it, desperate fish. The absence of spendable finds probably a product of winter more than the machine. I need to invest in a pin pointer if I’m to persevere, that might fix my issue.
Even at second level sensitivity it is always pinging where I was hunting. I am still getting accustomed to the depth indicators, might have to bury some of my jewellery in plastic bags in the garden to practice and learn them. At the moment I miss my old cheap machine that did well for what it was, largely because i was used to where it was detecting (a circle) but it’s just learning the machine. I hope.
On the bright side, you’re lifting pulltabs - that puts you in the right place for gold. Swapping machines always takes time - When I change detectors for a particular hunt, it still takes me a good 15 minutes before I get back in tune with the different configuration and that’s after 30+years of waving them around.
Stick with it, and to pinpoint, try the ‘X’ method.
From experience, if you’re going to bury goodies to try the machine out - Tie a long piece of string to the item so if you do lose it (and it does happen ) then you can just follow it back to the ring or whatever. The other way is put the target on the ground and just lie a sealed bag of compost on top of it. Not as good, but still better than airtesting, and you can play games with multiple targets/iron interference etc…
Maybe this is better in the long run, I just went over a playground I’ve done with ‘old trusty’ and found a 1946 sixpence.
The button says fxk air, I think it is recent.
Silver for the new toy…onto the gold
Good work, stick with your new machine you’ll get the hang of it.
I hope so, I have plans in rugged terrain for it’s superior portability.