NEW AT PRO

[Normsel]

I just got my AT PRO and took it out yesterday for the 1st time. I read all i could about it and watched all the videos i could before i got it and was trying to pick up on what the signals were telling me. I was trying to pick up on the audio for those broken chattery tones during the swing and after a cpl hours I began to detect it. I went from lots of trash in the morning to almost no trash in the after noon. I have an ACE 250 as well and the PRO seems much better at this point. I too agree with signals over 95 they were trash. One thing I did notice even with the iron audio off I got alot of chatter and squeaking. I am not sure if this is normal or not. I went through a cpl of tot lots and when i got near the steel supports it would ring and that threw me off because there were a cpl of clad dimes i pick up but was almost afraid to dig because of the ring from the steel support pipes.

Even though the soil around here is mostly clay I did have to ground balance in one area a cpl times after I noticed it getting eratic. I haven't tried to manually ground balance yet but will soon.

I got to the point of reading every ring or chirp with my 250 that I was almost sorry I had ordered the AT PRO. If i learn this one as well as i learned my 250 this AT PRO will be no less than awesome.

I picked up $4.51 my 1st day with my new AT PRO

I been detecting for 2 months now and have picked up $66 in clad and one 14K ring and a piece of 14K gold that was melted down probably from a fire and a cpl of silver pendents. I also have about 15# of copper I have dug and maybe 5# of melted aluminum. Sounds good but I have probably spent $150 in gas....lol it's so much fun I could care less about the gas. It's great excersize and gets me out of the house away from my honey do wife.

I still haven't found my 1st piece of silver or anything older than a 1952 wheatie. I am hoping to find a honey hole but there are alot of guys into detecting in the St Louis area. I live in IL and have been to most of the local parks in the area and schools. I did dig over $10 in clad from one park in two days and that place is almost clean. I detected that park cross hatch pattern and I can't even get a beep anymore so it's pretty clean.

 

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[signal_line]

The AT Series has the Hi-Res iron discrimination. If you have any iron discrimination on while ground balancing, you cannot be certain that you are balancing over clean (iron-free) ground. I was at a place last week it had so much iron trash I was unable to ground balance in auto--just had to guess at it. But that is a good way to lose deep targets. If you want the deep ones, best thing is to accurately ground balance and then check out anything that makes a tone. The narrow, sharp, faint tones mean a deep target. Spend about an hour at a tot lot and dig all signals (even those with questionable target ID # or even just a tiny blip) AFTER checking it with iron audio. You will find that the deeper iron targets may not give an iron response until you dig down a few inches.

And I know some people cannot believe that a a bit faster sweep speed is better for deep targets. Watch the videos and see how fast they sweep at those city parks. Or you can try it yourself. Get a target and lay it on the ground and see far away you can detect it with a slow sweep speed. Now raise the coil until you can't detect it, then increase your sweep speed and see what happens. Or else slow down and see how the deep target is gone. Slow sweep will lose deep targets.

 

[Sandman]

I had one of the first ones made and that was a mistake in buying it. Garrett said they fixed it but it still sucked. Then a friend bought me a new AT Pro and it was nothing like the first one. This one works as it should and I am happy with it. Glad you are enjoying yours.

 

[gleaner1]

Try low sense, one to four bars, iron scrim at forty, zero regular scrim, all in pro mode so you can hear three tone. Auto reject zinc on a good rotten one buried half inch deep. That should run better. Manual gb is easy, just press and hold gb button and bob coil up and down say ten twelve inches, make sure you lower the coil fully to the ground each time, it only takes three or four bobs for the machine to settle into gb, its a snap.

 

[xmarks73]

I too had one of the firsts At's Sent it in 4 times for leaks. They replaced it with a brand new one and I have yet to dunk it. Scared too! Lol I love using it on land though. In public parks, I use it over my etrac.