Quick-Start Demo - Teknetics Alpha 2000 Owner's Manual

QUICK-START DEMONSTRATION
I. Supplies Needed
• a Nail
• a Nickel
II. Position the Detector
a. Place the detector on a table, with the
search coil hanging over the edge.
Or better, have a friend hold the
detector, with the search coil off the
ground.
b. Keep the search coil away from walls,
floors, and metal objects.
c. Remove watches, rings, and jewelry.
d. Turn off lights or appliances, whose electromagnetic emissions may
cause interference.
e. Pivot the search coil back.
III. Power Up. Press
IV. Wave each object over the search coil.
a. Notice a different tone for each object:
Low Tone:
Nail
b. Motion is required.
Objects must be in motion over the search coil to be detected.
V. Then press
a. The word "IRON" disappears from the display
VI. Wave the nail over the search coil.
a. The nail will not be detected
b. The nail has been "discriminated out."
VII. Press four more times.
a. The words FOIL, 5¢, ALUM, and ZINC disappear.
VIII. Wave the nickel
a. The nickel will not be detected.
IX. Press
Then press
a. 5¢ reappears on the display
X. Wave the Nickel.
a. The nickel is now again detected.
b. The nickel has been "notched in."
.
Medium Tone:
Zinc Penny, Nickel
.
to toggle down to NOTCH.
3 times
• a Zinc Penny (dated after 1982)
• a Quarter
High Tone:
Quarter
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