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Spectra VX
3
User’s Guide
• Coin
- Accepts most common US coins, including nickels.
Most other VDI regions, including where most jewelry is
found, are rejected.
•
Coin & Jewelry
- Accepts most common coins, along with
rings and jewelry.
•
Salt Beach
- Coin & Jewelry using salt subtraction mode.
•
Relic
- Mixed mode, no Tone ID, no VCO.
•
Prospecting
- All-metal mode optimized for nugget hunting.
•
Deep Silver
- Optimized for deep silver.
•
Hi-pro
- Advanced Coin & Jewelry.
•
Demo
- Extra program for whatever you want. Factory set-
tings for this program are weak, intended for in-store demos.
Notice that
Coin
is preceded by a “
” symbol whereas the
other programs have a “
” symbol. The “
” symbol means a
program has not been modified, whereas a “
” symbol indicates
changes have been made. At any time you can easily restore a
program to its factory settings; this is covered in Chapter 7.
Note that changing the Program from the Live Control Bar
is a live action and can be a little sluggish if you are trying to
scroll from Coin down to Hi-Pro. Press
VIEW
to bring up the
non-live menu which is much faster to scroll through.
Backlight
VX
3
uses a transflective display that has good visibility in
direct sunlight without the backlight. In shade or low sunlight
you may need to turn on the backlight. Backlight brightness can
be set from 1 to 20. Keep in mind that more backlight draws
Tip:
Program changes are automatically saved when
VX
3
is
turned off. If you remove the battery pack instead of press-
ing the
OFF
button, then program changes will not be
saved.
