White’s Electronics Prizm 6T, Owner'S Manual

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Prizm™ 6T
Getting Started
1. Once assembled with good batteries installed, press ON/OFF.
Holding ON/OFF for a few seconds will turn ON/OFF the display’s
backlight. Lightbulb icon, center of display, indicates backlight ON.
2. The Prizm 6T has automatic ground tracking to eliminate false
targets due to ground mineralization. After you turn the detector on, 6T
will automatically balance to the local ground conditions to ensure
proper target identification. The balance procedure is simple and can
be done using either of two methods.
If you simply sweep the loop back and forth across the ground, the
detector will automatically balance to the ground. Make sure there are
no metal targets in the area that you sweep the loop over.
Another way to balance the 6T is to bob or pump the loop from surface
to about 12 inches above the ground. After a few pumps of the loop
from surface to 12 inches, the 6T will then be ground balanced The 6T
will automatically track the ground as the mineraliation changes.
3. Due to the many metals used in modern construction it is best to use
and practice outdoors.
4.
Sweep the round search coil from side to side over ground evenly
(near to or touching ground surface) keeping it very close to the ground
throughout each pass and overlapping each pass as if mopping a floor.
About two seconds per pass from left to right, and two seconds return-
ing from right to left is necessary for the Prizm to perform as designed.
Sweeping too slowly (significantly less than two seconds per pass) will
deter good performance. It is also necessary for the round search coil
to be moving (sweeping) for the Prizm to detect and identify metals.
Once an signal has been located, (Step #6) the P/P (pinpoint) button
can be used to allow much slower search coil movement isolating
exactly where to dig. Keep loop near ground when pressing P/P.