Mixed Signals

[Proolio]

i have a garrett GTI 1500 and when i hear the belltone one way it sometimes wont give me the belltone on the swing back . Or Ill hear a normal beep back and forth then i dont get a sound . Cant pinpoint either . Any ideas on this any help would be apprieciated. thanks

 

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[neilo]

Ground noise, mineralisation,only go for signals which give constant signals if it blanks out one way forget it,try turning down your sensitivity,seeya Neilo

 

[Monty]

On my GTI 2500 (same basic electronics) when I get the bell tone only in one direction, it is usually a very new and shiney pulltab. I dig it anyway, 'cause sometimes it isn't! sometimes it is lawnmower slaw, very shallow, but at any rate it is nearly always trash. Monty

 

[ringding]

I have two different detectors that are not Garretts and I get those same type of incomplete signals. I don't bother digging those.

 

[Proolio]

thanks for the input, hope to put it to use soon

 

[hollowpointred]

On my GTI 2500 (same basic electronics) when I get the bell tone only in one direction, it is usually a very new and shiney pulltab. I dig it anyway, 'cause sometimes it isn't! sometimes it is lawnmower slaw, very shallow, but at any rate it is nearly always trash. Monty

i agree with this. in my expieriance it has usually been a tab, sometimes a deep tab but a tab none the less. in bench tests with my 2500, i was able to make this same thing happen with a coin though.

Turn off belltone, it actually takes a stronger signal for that sound to kick in and will cost you depth. That's what I learned on my GTi-2000. Generally a detector can give you a good signal one way and no/partial the other- X the target, and put the sound together with the id-a nail can read high id/iron, but a deep coin will be high id/lower conductive id. If you have a question, dig the target.

can you rephrase this ferrus? im not sure i follow you....... thanks for the tip on the belltone.