Thanks
So is there a setting that when activated will detect rather than miss a target?
Other than that I'm not seeing what good comes from complicated settings.
Yes, you can easily silence/notch out tones anywhere from the low iron to the highest conductors.
With the NOX, the different search modes aren't just notching out different combinations of targets. It's actually changing the way the detector operates, the way it processes the information it gets, and how it reports it back to the user.
You can run in default park 1, noise cancel, ground balance, and toggle iron audio on/off and adjust sensitivity as you go. If you want, notch out certain tones. Without ever going beyond that setup it's as good or better than (due to multi frequency) most machines in typical parks and yards.
There are other settings that can turn it into a totally different machine. Somebody who knows the right settings for the conditions will find a few more good targets over the long run. Apply the wrong settings and you might not find as much as if you just stayed with default settings.
The manual does a nice job of describing what the various settings are and how to change them. But, it would be four times as long if it went into detail on the why, where, or when. Yes, beach mode is supposed to be for beaches, etc.... Park 2 is good for finding fine jewelry in dense shallow trash, etc...
Stray away from the preset search modes, or heavily modify them, and there are literally thousands of ways you can combine the different settings. The surprising thing is that Minelab didn't give the user more user profiles to save those settings and still have the default modes handy. The 600 has no user profile, so you can't simply toggle between Park 1 and your own version of Park 1. The 800 gives the user one user profile. It's almost as if they didn't want people to stray too far from the presets even though they gave them vast ability to do so......
In other words, people are interested in how-to books like this because they're looking for recommended settings and techniques for very specific conditions.
