Search Modes - Nokta MAKRO Simplex+ User Manual

SE A RCH MO DES
SIMPLEX+ has 5 search modes designed for different terrains and targets. You can navigate between
the modes easily by using the right and left arrow buttons. The selected mode will be highlighted in
black.
Field
Recommended especially for relic hunting. It produces good results particularly on clean
sites which do not contain waste metal. More depth can be obtained on sites which are
rocky or trashy, by using the notch discrimination setting and swinging the search coil
more slowly (one right/left pass per approximately 1 second).
In this mode, the device produces a low tone for ferrous targets with IDs between 0-15. For non-ferrous
targets with IDs 16-99, it produces a higher tone which increases in pitch as the coil approaches the
target.
PARK MODES: These are the 3-tone discrimination modes designed for coin hunting especially in
trashy sites such as parks.
Park 1
It is relatively deeper but a bit slower than Park 2 mode.
In this mode, the device produces a low tone for ferrous targets with 0-15 IDs, a
medium tone for gold and non-ferrous metals with IDs 16-69 and a high tone for
non-ferrous metals with IDs 70-99 such as silver, brass and copper.
Park 2
In this mode, the device produces a low tone for ferrous targets with 0-15 IDs, a
medium tone for gold and non-ferrous metals with IDs 16-42 and a high tone for
non-ferrous metals with IDs 43-99 such as silver, brass and copper.
Beach
This is a special mode of the SIMPLEX+ developed for conductive grounds (salty wet sand
beach, grounds with alkali soil etc.). The feature of this mode presents the ability to ignore
iron and similar targets in this group and to be able to perform ground balance on any type
of ground. While the device performs ground balance in the range of 20-99.9 automatically
in the other discrimination modes, the device ground balances in the range of 0-99.9 in
this mode. This enables easier ground balancing on conductive grounds where normally
ground balance cannot be performed at all or performed with difficulty.
Different than the other modes, targets with 0-15 IDs are notched out by default and cannot be
changed in order to ignore ferrous metals or ground noise. In this mode, the device produces a
medium tone for gold and non-ferrous metals with IDs 16-99.
Salt water and alkali grounds are significantly conductive due to high ionization and cause effects
similar to that of iron in detectors. These effects may make it impossible to search for metals with
a standard detector. Existence of an iron elimination feature in a detector can improve the situation
but may not be sufficient.
SIMPLEX+'s beach mode eliminates such effects and ground noise. Aspects to be taken into
consideration while searching on conductive grounds are explained in more detail in the section
titled Detection on the Beach and Underwater (17).
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