Target ID on F2

[issombeituni]

Last night being I Ma new to my fisher F2 which i love coming from bounty hunter.

I wanted to learn more about the visual display.

I air tested coins at 1,5,8 inches away.

Here are my findings the number gets higher as you go farther from the coil. My question is this normal or a dime at 73 at 1 inch should read a 73 at 8 inches

I currently have the 8 inch stock coil..

I was thinking of upgrading to the 10 or 11dd will that be better for me. I am mainly a coin hunter

 

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[BOWSMOKE]

Hey, I've had my f2 for about a month now and I love it. Just from my own experience with it if you add 8 inches of dirt between your coil and coin it wont read quite as high. Air test are good but ground conditions change a lot. Try making a test garden and compare numbers. I'd be surprised if they matched up.

 

[Sandman]

Bowsmoke is right. The air tests are not an indication of what the numbers would be while target is in the ground.

 

[F2 Hunter 28146]

Yea.... I pretty much just look to see if it says DIME or not. 8 or of 10 times for me if it says DIME.... it pretty much has been on my F2.

 

[F2 Hunter 28146]

I tell you what I figured out for an accurate-ish reading for coins. I place coins in Blue (doesn't matter what color) Solo Cups and filled it up with the dirt around my house. That seemed to give me a better reading than just waving a naked coin in the air and hoping for the best.