OK... I'm pretty sure I got everything loaded correctly and gave my best effort at copying your pattern on the screen above. The questions are coming as a know nothing, so they are only out of curiosity...obviously, you are doing quite well with the pattern and settings..so here goes
Questions:
This is a bit of a noisy setting, which is not a problem, I hunt by sound, what is the reasoning behind having so much of the lower end not discriminated?
You don't want to discriminate too much of the lower region because you will risk missing very deep targets. Deeply buried coins will have the Fe bouncing quite a bit, hitting as high as 27 at times. Rejecting any more of that region would cause such signals to be ignored, especially when the target is near iron. You can elect to accept more of that region, but be prepared to deal with more iron.
I noticed that you opened up the right corner on the coin program...does this allow for the large silvers to be heard?
Yes. You don't want to reject that area, else you risk missing the larger silver coins.
Is there any way you could put up your cut off points on the pattern where you closed and opened up to be sure I'm in the right pattern? As in block the Fe's 01's up to Co 38 or where ever... block open complete Fe rows for all of 11's thru 18's. I'm just making up numbers without looking.
The discrimination pattern is just a slightly modified version of the one Andy Sabisch has posted elsewhere. Here are the numbers rejected within the pattern:
Left hand side: Reject Co values 00 to 03 top to bottom. I opened up the foil area on the pattern I'm using, though, as you can see from the image I had included above.
Bottom: Reject everything from Fe 28 on.
Right: Reject Co 50 top to bottom to eliminate hot rocks if they are a problem in your area. Otherwise you can leave it as accepted.
Top: Reject from FE 00 to FE 08 up to CO 32. The smaller rejected region is FE 03, up to CO 37. You can play with this area to see what works for you. I elected to leave it as is, though I am working on another pattern where some of the area is opened up.
Do you dig the signals that are solid and may fall in the higher number end of the Fe's that were usually blocked out? If so, what normally falls in that area and do you dig alot of Iron objects?
If you are seeking very deep targets and expecting solid signals, then you are in for a rude awakening. :shocked02: For the most part silver will sound off quite nicely, but the very deep ones can be tricky at times, especially when you are also dealing with surface trash. I rely on the tones to help me identify such targets, using the Fe and Co numbers as a second means of determining what may be under the coil. I dig a minimal amount of iron, but I do dig some.
I hope that helps. :yes:
How many with ETrac?
