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THE BASICS OF METAL DETECTING
A hobby metal detector is intended for locating buried metal objects. When
searching for metals, underground or on the surface, you have the following
challenges and objectives:
1. Ignoring signals caused by ground minerals.
2. Ignoring signals caused by metal objects that you do not want to find,
like pull-tabs.
3. Identifying a buried metal object before you dig it up.
4. Estimating the size and depth of objects, to facilitate digging them up.
5. Eliminating the effects of electromagnetic interference from other
electronic devices.
Your Titanium Camo metal detector is designed with these things in mind.
1. Ground Minerals
All soils contain minerals. Signals from ground minerals can interfere with
the signals from metal objects you want to find. All soils differ, and can
differ greatly, in the type and amount of ground minerals present. The
Titanium Camo has a preset ground elimination setting. No user
adjustments are required.
2. Trash
If searching for coins, which will induce higher tone sounds, you want to
ignore items like aluminum foil, nails, and pull-tabs. These undesirable
items induce lower tones. You can listen to the sounds of all objects
detected, and decide on what you want to dig up. Or you can eliminate
unwanted metals from detection by using the DISCRIMINATION feature.
3. Identifying Buried Objects
When searching in the DISCRIMINATION Mode, different objects induce
different tones (high, medium, low) and are classified on the display screen
in different categories from left to right. A 2-digit numerical reading is also
provided in the middle of the display for more precise Target Identification.
The DISCRIMINATION Mode requires motion: sweep the coil over the
metal object.
At any time, the display screen indicates the current category notches or discrim-
ination settings. Any category whose description is not visible will not be detected.
For example, the following settings tell us that:
• The nickel, dime,
quarter and 50¢
categories will be
detected.
• All other
categories of
targets (iron, foil,
alum and zinc) will
not be detected.
4. VOLUME
While the VOLUME line is highlighted, use
and
to change the
speaker volume.
The default volume setting is 8. Maximum is 10.
Minimum is 0 (volume off). At levels 1, 2 and 3, high tones will be inaudible or
barely audible.
The speaker volume will diminish as battery voltage drops. For maximum
speaker volume, use 1 or 2 tones, as the low and bass tones generate the
loudest sounds.
Volume can be set while in either the DISCRIMINATION or ALL METAL
Modes, but only one setting applies to both modes. Volume in the two modes
cannot be set independently.
OPERATION and CONTROLS (
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MENU SELECTIONS
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NOTCH
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