Pioneer 101 owner manual Three Modes of Operation

OPERATION

The Pioneer 101 is a “motion” detector. This means that the search coil must be moving to detect the presence of metal. When practicing with a stationary metal detector, keep the target moving over the coil. Objects held still under the search coil will not be detected.

THREE MODES OF OPERATION

The Pioneer 101 allows for three modes of operation:

ALL METAL, TONE AND FULL DISCRIMINATE

After turning the unit on, and adjusting your Sensitivity to the desired setting, you're now ready to decide on your mode of operation.

ALL METAL: (Toggle Switch in the Middle) In this mode, all

different types of metal will be detected such as: iron, steel,

aluminum, brass, silver, copper and gold. Applications: Relic Hunting, Gold Prospecting, Cache Hunting and general applications such as property marker locating. This mode provides maximum depth detection capability.

FULL DISCRIMINATE: (Toggle Switch to the Left) When using the Full Discriminator, most trash items will be automatically rejected. Adjust the DISCRIMINATE control higher to increase the range of discrimination.

TONE DISCRIMINATE: (Toggle Switch to the Right) When using the Tone Discriminator, a unique dual tone “beep” and automatic iron rejection makes finding treasure fun and easy. It's also possible to achieve a broken tone for certain pull-tabs by adjusting your Discriminate control to the approximate center position (12:00). With the two-tone discrimination, along with a broken tone for pull-tabs, you will be able to identify types of buried metals according to the audio tones emitted. Applications: Coinshooting, Jewelry Hunting and detecting in highly trashed areas.

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