ATX Ground Balance/ Volume & Threshold Troubles ... Questions
Detected an area that has a history of producing gold including small nuggets -- and have found pickers and larger yet small nuggets in my sluice here in past years with predictable confidence of finding more if put in the energy/ time -- but has a lot of ferrous trash above and below surface, and high mineralization. Experienced difficulty with the GB/ threshold and/or volume of the ATX. Did 4 resets -- factory reset 1st, then a freq scan, and then a GB readjustment, in that order -- trying to
This is a red flag in my book. Even the 'default' of 10 might be too high, depending upon the conditions. I have no experience or knowledge of the Garrett ATX but very few detectors can be run at max gain in the gold fields (and in fact many can't handle it even in parks/etc.). Have you watched the video below? Bill Southern and Kevin Hoagland make a big deal about not setting the gain too high. (They also talk about properly setting other things, such as threshold.) I'm sure you'll get so