Kellyco Titan 9000, Owner'S Manual

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Page 2: ... Capabilities and limitations depth 7 target identification 7 requirement for motion 8 ground balancing 8 discrimination 8 depth reading 8 air testing 9 THE METAL AND PLASTIC STUFF Easy Assembly Instructions 10 Batteries 11 Headphones 12 THE CONTROL PANEL Introduction 12 Touchpad buttons 13 Numeric target readout 14 Probable Target ID fields 14 15 OPERATION OF THE METAL DETECTOR Introduction Selec...

Page 3: ... TECHNIQUE How to sweep the searchcoil 22 How to pinpoint targets 23 Pinpointing a target in the Self tuning Mode 23 Retrieving targets 24 False signals and chatter Using the Sensitivity Control 25 Estimating target size and depth 26 Tips on ground balancing 27 TYPES OF METAL DETECTING DESCRIPTIONS AND TIPS coinshooting 29 relic hunting 30 gold prospecting 31 cache hunting 33 shallow water hunting...

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Page 16: ... be dug with minimum effort This mode does not provide target ID and does not require the searchcoil to remain in motion 3 Self Tuning mode This is a high sensitivity mode which detects all metals does not provide target ID and does require the searchcoil to remain in motion to detect a target When the machine is first turned on it goes to Preset Program 1 To access another mode tap the correspond...

Page 17: ...ferent Discrimination Target system fully programmable The Discrimination Target system gives the user the ability to accept or reject any target category including 4 levels of iron Its discrimination DISC mode is accessed by tapping the DISC TARGET button When the machine is first turned on it detects accepts all target categories This makes it handy to use for ID ing targets which have been dete...

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Page 20: ...terfering signals from iron minerals in the ground This is a feature for the advanced user PROCEDURE FOR GROUND BALANCING 1 With the searchcoil more than half a foot above the ground press and hold the ALL METAL SMART TRACK button 2 Immediately lower the searchcoil to within about half an inch of the ground 3 When you hear a wobbly tone in about 2 seconds release the button The meaning of the beep...

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Page 25: ...rroded foil which are shallow These items can be detected but they are often difficult to find because of their depth or small size It may seem like the machine is beeping at nothing The best solutions are to reduce sensitivity and to discriminate out iron and foil Using the 4 inch coil can also help by reducing sensitivity to deep targets and by giving a crisper feel on shallow targets Metal dete...

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Page 28: ... inadvertently ground balance over metal you ll know it immediately because the number will be higher than it should be If this happens try another spot The Ground Monitor dial indicates how much iron mineralization is present For it to work you have to be sweeping the searchcoil over the ground The higher the mineralization the more necessary it is to be ground balanced in order to get the best d...

Page 29: ...r school district property Usually there s no ordinance prohibiting use of a metal detector as long as you re not causing damage However sometimes such ordinances do exist and administrators and security personnel often have the legal authority to prohibit any activity they don t like even if there s no ordinance against it If there is a metal detecting club in your area someone will usually know ...

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Page 31: ...to find gold you should look in areas where the yellow metal is known to be present The best areas for gold prospecting using a metal detector are usually hillsides because hillsides can t be cleaned out by panning and dredging the way streams can Also gold on hillsides not far from its source vein tends to be larger and hence more readily detected than alluvial placer gold which tends to get poun...

Page 32: ...etite black sand If you know this to be the case in the area you re working you can maximize your gold recovery by concentrating your effort on areas where the dial indicates higher amounts of iron mineralization Gold prospectors are mostly a friendly bunch and willing to spend some time showing a beginner how to increase your odds of finding the yellow stuff Many will invite you to search on thei...

Page 33: ...tion is what can be obtained from family and acquaintances of the person who is believed to have hidden the cache The ownership of a cache is not always clear Sometimes it belongs to the person or heirs of the person who hid it sometimes it belongs to the owner of the property on which it is located and sometimes it belongs to the person who finds it or some combination of the above If the content...

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Page 36: ...t Battery life typically 20 hours Operating frequency 6 9 kHz Weight with batteries 2 9 lbs Headphone jack 1 4 inch stereo Temperature range 0 40 degrees C 32 104 degrees F Humidity 0 95 noncondensing Searchcoils concentric coplanar with resonant transmitter waterproof interchangeable Ground balance resolution 1 part in 256 ...

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