g'day folks i'm the coffee bush kid and today we're going to talk about recovery speed what is
it and why you would change it what does recovery speed actually do it alters how quickly the
detector responds from one target to the next the recovery speed on the equinox 800 goes from one
up to eight and increasing the speed allows you to differentiate between targets that are really
close together but something that you need to keep in mind is that increasing the recovery speed can
reduce the id accuracy of targets and it also will reduce your detecting depth as a rule of thumb
if you were out in an area that there were very sparse targets it was nice clear spot you would
probably drop your recovery speed from one through to three that will give you really really good
soil penetration and if there aren't very many targets well it's it's going to ring out when you
run over something if you were in an area where there are more targets you would be somewhere
between the 4 and six range this is where most of the factory presets are set and that's just
your normal detecting area where there'll be a target here a target there maybe a couple close
by but you'll you'll differentiate between them but if you were in a really really trashy site
seven eight is probably what you want now when i say a really trashy site i myself when i'm out
detecting on a rubbish dump will now put it into eight for my recovery speed it gives you really
sharp identification that oh you've just run over four targets all really really close together
but you can just differentiate between them and go yeah that 16 i reckon is a
post 46 thrippance and you'll be able to dig it up and find out what is there another thing with
setting the recovery speed up to weight is that you lose that depth penetration but as i say
i use it in a trashy site and realistically you don't want major depth in a rubbish pile you know
it's hard enough digging in one already as to try and get down meters into it you just want
shallow sharp pin pointing but let's go have a look at what it all looks like on the dashboard
well here we are on the dashboard of the equinox 800 and if we go into the menu and change
see this coming over we want to go right over to the last one that's our recovery speed you
can see that currently i'm in five that's the general purpose just normal detecting uh
setting but if you want to change it you either use the minus or the plus sign so if we take it
right back to to one so one through to three is if you're in a very quiet ground and you wanna have
good uh soil penetration and you're looking for those deeper signals and there's not many around
good setting to use the general purpose we're up into four five and six and that's where most of
the settings are on the preset for the equinox and that that's a really good setting to be in
if you start getting into the trashy sites keep hitting that plus button up into seven or eight
and it makes those little signals really really sharp and distinguished well that's been a look
at the dashboard and how to change your recovery speed on it let's look at a drawing as to
what it sort of means in the ground for when you're detecting so let's say we had a screw
in the ground and we also had a coin that was uh very very close to it i'll just do this
right if we were in one to three
you would end up having a large signal for the screw or the ferrous item and you'll have
another target for the two dollar coin but you'll see that the screw the ferrous target will
actually mask the non-ferrous target and that's not particularly what you want but if you were
in a field where there was bugger rule targets you would dig it anyway just to see what it was
so that is the one to three if we set the recovery speed on four to six you end up getting a shorter
uh ferrous target signal and you will start to get the two dollar coin there it'll start to break
through you'll know something's there but there will still be slightly partial masking if the
targets are really really close now the third one is if we changed our recovery speed seven to eight
where the screw is we will get a small a a very specific target where the two dollar coin is
we'll get a very sharp one as well you'll be able to differentiate
between the two targets in the ground but you will have less soil penetration that's
the theory behind the recovery speed in your detector but what you should probably do
is go home find a nice clear patch of ground and play with the settings yourself get a really
nice feel for it and be confident in that yet i'm in this situation i should use these settings or
i'm in this situation and i reckon i'll give those a bit of a go so if you are out on a site where
you reckon there should be just a little bit more potential than what you're finding it might do you
well to change your recovery speed and see how you go you just might be surprised at what you find
i'm the coffee bush kid this has been a top tip for the mindlab show