sicam
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I ordered my F2 with the 11 dd coil.
During my learning ... breaking olds habits from my previous detector... I have noticed a couple things. Now non of these things are negative but more of how the detector talks to me.
1. On full discriminate, only allowing for dimes and quarters, the detector seems to throw a single wild beep on heavy metal. Its almost like its telling me that I have shut off the detection of certain items but it wants to tell me that its there if I want to take a look.
2. The dd coil will sometimes through a double beep in one direction over an object but a single beep on the return swing.
3. Digging a hole 4' away with a shovel can get it to speak to me just because of the metal moving through the air.
4. Sometimes I get a ghost beep, it will beep once and say something to me. I will swing 3-4 more times without a beep and just as I get ready to leave it will throw another beep. I am trying to figure this one out.
5. To pinpoint with the big coil I approach the object from me to it with tip of the coil. When I hear the first beep I note an object on the ground. Then I approach the location from away and bring the coil to me with the bottom of the coil and when I hear the first beep I note the location. This gets me very close.
6. I have also seen directional beeps. Swing to the right - beep, swing to the left - silent. Pretty consistant. Now rotate my approach angle 90 degrees and it silent both directions. Another one of those things were I need to learn.
I see this like getting a new bird dog. They all can point birds but each one does different things and as soon as I learn how this F2 points I think its gonna be awesome.
During my learning ... breaking olds habits from my previous detector... I have noticed a couple things. Now non of these things are negative but more of how the detector talks to me.
1. On full discriminate, only allowing for dimes and quarters, the detector seems to throw a single wild beep on heavy metal. Its almost like its telling me that I have shut off the detection of certain items but it wants to tell me that its there if I want to take a look.
2. The dd coil will sometimes through a double beep in one direction over an object but a single beep on the return swing.
3. Digging a hole 4' away with a shovel can get it to speak to me just because of the metal moving through the air.
4. Sometimes I get a ghost beep, it will beep once and say something to me. I will swing 3-4 more times without a beep and just as I get ready to leave it will throw another beep. I am trying to figure this one out.
5. To pinpoint with the big coil I approach the object from me to it with tip of the coil. When I hear the first beep I note an object on the ground. Then I approach the location from away and bring the coil to me with the bottom of the coil and when I hear the first beep I note the location. This gets me very close.
6. I have also seen directional beeps. Swing to the right - beep, swing to the left - silent. Pretty consistant. Now rotate my approach angle 90 degrees and it silent both directions. Another one of those things were I need to learn.
I see this like getting a new bird dog. They all can point birds but each one does different things and as soon as I learn how this F2 points I think its gonna be awesome.
