Frequency settings

I finally got an explination of what the 4 settings are on the SD2000 dial, but this answer contradicts all the other answers I've been given.

I was originally told setting 1 & 2 were shallow, 3 was average, 4 was deep.

Then I was told 1 was the original shallow setting, 2 was original deep setting, 3 & 4 were deeper settings.

A couple days ago I got a call from the bloke at the prospectors patch in WA, because somebody on this forum said the mod was a Peter Nikola mod & the bloke in WA can help........ I am now told -

Setting
1 is 7.1Khz
2 is 8.4Khz
3 is 9.1Khz
4 is 10.13Khz.........

& that none of it relates to depth, but rather mineralisation....

What a journey....

Hmmm if it is the freqs then they be toooo low

should be approx coz not all the same
anything between 4Mhz and 1Mhz

Rob.B wrote:I finally got an explination of what the 4 settings are on the SD2000 dial, but this answer contradicts all the other answers I've been given.

I was originally told setting 1 & 2 were shallow, 3 was average, 4 was deep.

Then I was told 1 was the original shallow setting, 2 was original deep setting, 3 & 4 were deeper settings.

A couple days ago I got a call from the bloke at the prospectors patch in WA, because somebody on this forum said the mod was a Peter Nikola mod & the bloke in WA can help........ I am now told -

Setting
1 is 7.1Khz
2 is 8.4Khz
3 is 9.1Khz
4 is 10.13Khz.........

& that none of it relates to depth, but rather mineralisation....

What a journey....

Usually the lower the frequency the deeper the penetration, submarines transmit at 9Khz so they are onto something to penitrate deep warter. The minlab eurika has 3 frequenies, 7.5Khz,20khz and the gold one is at 60khz and the only one that will pick up small gold at 6". So use that as a guide as discrimination suffers as the depth increases. Hope that helps some. Last week I dug a hole 1.2m deep knacckered myself for two days up at Wedderbourne to find a pan handle. I was using 5000 with mono, then had some help with guy with 4500 assured me it was worth a dig as I had expended so much time in the hole I just cold not walk away from it. I since have put on my "DD" that can discriminate iron for a small loss in depth but I dont want to dig any more holes like that. Happy hunting to all.

Rob.B wrote:I finally got an explination of what the 4 settings are on the SD2000 dial, but this answer contradicts all the other answers I've been given.

I was originally told setting 1 & 2 were shallow, 3 was average, 4 was deep.

Then I was told 1 was the original shallow setting, 2 was original deep setting, 3 & 4 were deeper settings.

A couple days ago I got a call from the bloke at the prospectors patch in WA, because somebody on this forum said the mod was a Peter Nikola mod & the bloke in WA can help........ I am now told -

Setting
1 is 7.1Khz
2 is 8.4Khz
3 is 9.1Khz
4 is 10.13Khz.........

& that none of it relates to depth, but rather mineralisation....

What a journey....

Totally misinformed.... Depending on who did the mod and as you already said who, most did it this way:

1 = Standard 2.050Mhz
2 = Standard Also 2.070Mhz
3 = 2.4Mhz
4 = 3.00Mhz

Obviously 1 & 2 very little difference but on some one was better (more stable) than the other, these are used for deeper larger targets, 3 & 4 obviously as mentioned the higher the frequency the more sensitive to small gold and less depth especially when using a larger coil. 3 & 4 can also be more unstable on high mineralisation and you can (and will) in high mineralisation run out of Ground Balance on channel 2.

I mentioned depending on who did the mod for a reason. Myself, Old Finders, Barry Johnson, and Peter and most others did the switch in the configuration mentioned (common sense really 1 being LOW 4 being HIGH) however Paul Garbut, formally the son of the original owner of Prospectors Patch did the mod in the opposite format. As a heads up for my 4 postion mod, I never placed the 4 position as a seperate switch, I replaced the on off switch and used the same switch for frequency change and on/off as in picture below:

Thanks, I've made a note of that.

The 4 position switch is the same as in the photo.

Ground balance 2 is the one which always needs adjustment.

Thank you