First I have to say I thought having used a Xterra 705 for 5-6 years meant I wouldn't even need the book when the new 600 cometh.. Wrong!
I first made the mistake of turning it on in the house!! I had to turn that sensitivity way way down and still I wouldn't trust any settings done in MY house anyway. Once I got out in the yard I did a factory reset because in the fury inside I hit all kinds of settings. Then chose Park 1, noise cancel, auto ground balance. I've pounded our yard already with every coil on the 705 the largest a 10.5" so I thought this would be a good test for the nox. As expected I dug some deep canslaw and just poked around reading junk type signals. I then hit a clean sounding hit reading 30 on the VDI. I couldn't believe this target was a tiny brass 22 cal half eaten away casing at 8-9 inches! Wow I thought this thing is going to tire me out fast! I had to get out of the hot sun so I went up alongside the old house we live in and thought well let's see what a US quarter will do. Now I well know about the halo effect and how a test garden isn't worth a damn until the targets have been in a while. But... I don't have a test garden. I go directly to a park usually. It's Saturday and people have been all over parks so home I stay. So I bury a quarter 6-7" . The 600 with stock 11" coil doesn't see anything . Ok fresh lose dirt. So I bring the clad quarter up to 4" , it still hits nothing. I check the settings, re noise cancel and auto ground balance over a non signal area near by. Nothing! So I move the quarter up to barely 2" maybe less and finely Im getting a hit that sounds like its 10 inches but no its my 2inch quarter and now I'm sure something must be going on and probably because I'm too close to the house, about 8 feet. I lowered and raised the sensitivity a few times but no help so again I go all metal hitting the horse shoe button and the same but Im getting a hum in the ground all around this burried quarter at only 2inches.
I'm not blaming this machine, the new 600. This thing had just hit a deep 22 cal eaten up shell out in the yard. Too close to the house? Strange hum in all metal from ground? I'm not sure but next time out, tomorrow, I'm going to a park the real time real target tests.
I first made the mistake of turning it on in the house!! I had to turn that sensitivity way way down and still I wouldn't trust any settings done in MY house anyway. Once I got out in the yard I did a factory reset because in the fury inside I hit all kinds of settings. Then chose Park 1, noise cancel, auto ground balance. I've pounded our yard already with every coil on the 705 the largest a 10.5" so I thought this would be a good test for the nox. As expected I dug some deep canslaw and just poked around reading junk type signals. I then hit a clean sounding hit reading 30 on the VDI. I couldn't believe this target was a tiny brass 22 cal half eaten away casing at 8-9 inches! Wow I thought this thing is going to tire me out fast! I had to get out of the hot sun so I went up alongside the old house we live in and thought well let's see what a US quarter will do. Now I well know about the halo effect and how a test garden isn't worth a damn until the targets have been in a while. But... I don't have a test garden. I go directly to a park usually. It's Saturday and people have been all over parks so home I stay. So I bury a quarter 6-7" . The 600 with stock 11" coil doesn't see anything . Ok fresh lose dirt. So I bring the clad quarter up to 4" , it still hits nothing. I check the settings, re noise cancel and auto ground balance over a non signal area near by. Nothing! So I move the quarter up to barely 2" maybe less and finely Im getting a hit that sounds like its 10 inches but no its my 2inch quarter and now I'm sure something must be going on and probably because I'm too close to the house, about 8 feet. I lowered and raised the sensitivity a few times but no help so again I go all metal hitting the horse shoe button and the same but Im getting a hum in the ground all around this burried quarter at only 2inches.
I'm not blaming this machine, the new 600. This thing had just hit a deep 22 cal eaten up shell out in the yard. Too close to the house? Strange hum in all metal from ground? I'm not sure but next time out, tomorrow, I'm going to a park the real time real target tests.