One thing that I've noticed is that I can only go past the preset setting on the gain control part of the time. Sometimes when I go past the ^ symbol it works fine and other times it gives the overload noise/warning and I have to turn it back down to the ^ preset or a little below that. ??
I took a piece of PVC pipe and put some marks on it at 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 and held it on the floor (concrete slab) over a quarter, nickle and dime. The results were that it wouldn't read the coins over 6 inches and when I held the trigger in it said that they were 8 or 9 inches away. ??
I just took off the 6x10 coil and put the 950 coil on a got pretty much the same results. Above 6 inches it really doesn't read much of anything and the meter doesn't show that it's certain that it's a quarter, dime, nickel until I get it to about 5 -6 inches from it.
I took the MXT and the coins and PVC pipe outside and got the same results. By swinging the coil over the dime, nickel, quarter, it didn't show a solid bar indicating that it knew what it was until it got to about 4 inches away. Before getting that close it displayed, screwcap, etc. until I got a little closer and then it showed a solid bar at about 4 inches.
Am I doing something wrong with it or ?