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**** from South west W.A. Seems like a very informative, friendly forum, I have'nt got too much knowledge to share straight away, but I can gain some from here, having recognised some names.
Newbie, hi everyone !
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Just bought a tdi pro oz, comes with small folded coil, a 14" mono and a 20" mono. Can anyone help with settings for the 20" as I'm heading to payne's find - mount magnet area next week ?
goodaye **** Tracy from a fellow SouthWester
good luck on your trip :goldnugget: :Y:
good luck on your trip :goldnugget: :Y:
Welcome **** Tracy. Have a great trip and good luck.
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Went to Payne's find without the whites tdi, did'nt get it in time. The good news is, I used my minelab eureka gold, walked 60-70 metres from the car and within 15 minutes, got my first ever nugget.
Never really had any faith in the eureka, but it proved me wrong. Does'nt go real deep, but that may depend on nugget size.
Over about 10 hours, it picked up 10 pieces from a match head size, up to about a small marble.
Extra sensitive with small stuff and contrary to the instruction manual, 60khz (fine gold), actually goes deeper than 6khz for larger deeper gold.
Very good discrimination.
My settings were; 60khz, fast track, boost on, sensitivity max depends on ground.
This setting can be very noisy with boost on, only answer is go to 20khz.
The dirt was digable, so when no more signals were heard, I shovelled 30mm off and detected over it again, got 2 more small ones, all targets in a 2 sq m area.
Never really had any faith in the eureka, but it proved me wrong. Does'nt go real deep, but that may depend on nugget size.
Over about 10 hours, it picked up 10 pieces from a match head size, up to about a small marble.
Extra sensitive with small stuff and contrary to the instruction manual, 60khz (fine gold), actually goes deeper than 6khz for larger deeper gold.
Very good discrimination.
My settings were; 60khz, fast track, boost on, sensitivity max depends on ground.
This setting can be very noisy with boost on, only answer is go to 20khz.
The dirt was digable, so when no more signals were heard, I shovelled 30mm off and detected over it again, got 2 more small ones, all targets in a 2 sq m area.
