F2 Or Fe?

[Steve Herschbach]

This was my attempt at putting it is a pictorial form.....

F2 goes both higher and lower than the original setting. The F2 setting of zero is as close as you can get to a true zero setting. The only reason to use the original iron bias setting is you get finer resolution in the mid-range.

[Go Ducks]

so, coin hunters want lots of iron bias, jewelry hunters want little-to-none?

[Chase Goldman]

1 hour ago, Go Ducks said:

so, coin hunters want lots of iron bias, jewelry hunters want little-to-none?

Why do you say that?  Whether iron bias is used depends on the nuisance factor of iron at a given site regardless of the target objective.

[Steve Herschbach]

2 hours ago, Go Ducks said:

so, coin hunters want lots of iron bias, jewelry hunters want little-to-none?

I’m not sure it’s really a jewelry or coin thing, though beach hunters can get frustrated with bottle caps. To me it is more a personal preference setting having to do with each persons tolerance for trash. When I started as a prototype tester for Equinox there was no iron bias. It got added later. Most iron targets reveal using 50 tones and so I kind of cut my teeth on 50 tones and no iron bias. I really have no use for it except for rare circumstances and as a rule set it for zero unless I forget and am using a mode that has reverted to a preset that has some iron bias dialed in. I also have a high tolerance for trash targets.

Other people do not like 50 tones as too busy, but fewer tones forces targets into a handful of tone responses so ferrous tends to fake you out more. Or people just hate digging trash, period. So they opt for higher iron bias settings. There is nothing at all wrong with that. This is supposed to be something we do for fun, and if iron makes you miserable, find the setting that works best for you.

[mn90403]

9 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

priest

Relying on God are we Steve?  haha

(For those of you who wonder about this post, when Steve wrote his post above he inadvertently or overtly said "priest" rather than preset.)

I do think some of us have prayed and or pray before each hunt but to think of the God 'preset' was a chuckle.

[mn90403]

Steve is right in my book.  50 tones and sometimes 5 and I turn up the volume on iron which helps me hear both of the targets or the iffys which start out as negative.

[Tom Slick]

Steve - Your graph makes it much easier for the novice to understand the differences between the two. I've been trying to explain it using words. The graph makes it much clearer.

 

[Chase Goldman]

6 minutes ago, Tom Slick said:

Steve - Your graph makes it much easier for the novice to understand the differences between the two. I've been trying to explain it using words. The graph makes it much clearer.

 

Agree, that's why I linked to it in my original post. But I guess people don't want have to plow through words just to get to the pictures. 

[2Valen]

2 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

But I guess people don't want have to plow through words just to get to the pictures. 

I agree with you Chase, and I am sometimes guilty of it also. The more that I have been on here the more I understand to actually read the links that people post on  here. That way I can find the answers I am looking for.