Quest Engineering Q30 User Manual

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Pinpoinng:
Pinpoinng means to determine the posion of the found object as exactly as
possible. There are detectors with a built-in pinpoinng feature and also external
pinpointers. You can use your detector‘s pinpoinng feature to locate the target
more accurately, so it‘s enough to dig a small hole. With a loose pinpointer you
can nd the object inside the hole faster.
Discriminaon:
Depending on how conducve the metal your detector nd is, it will show a me-
tal ID number from 1 to 99. Via discriminaon you can for example let the detec-
tor ignore all objects that score 1 to 40 to avoid nding lots of nails or other iron
objects.
Notch:
The notch feature is very similiar to discriminaon, but is more exible. You can
pick a certain metal ID-segment and let the detector ignore objects in that seg-
ment or, opposingly, only search for objects in that segment.
4. Explanaon of terms
Ground balancing:
In the ground there are several small minerals with metals aached to them. To
prevent that your detector permanently reacts to those minerals, it can perform
ground balancing. The detector lters the magnec eld of the ground and is able
to ignore it. With a Ground Tracking feature the detector is able to automacally
adjust its ltraon of the mineralizaon in the respecve ground.
Sensivity:
Sensivity and depth seng go hand in hand. The higher the sensivity is set on
your detector, the deeper it searches and the more sensive it becomes in terms
of ground disturbances and electromagnec interferences. The lower the sensi-
vity, the less disturbances you will experience, at the expense of your depth per-
formance.
Frequency:
The frequency of the detector determines how many electronic waves it sends
into the ground per second. If the frequency is low, you are able to nd bigger
targets deeper in the ground. If it‘s high, the detector will recognize smaller ob-
jects nearer to the surface. With some detectors, like the Quest Q60, you are
able to switch between mulple frequencies.

Quest Engineering Q30 Specifications

General

Brand	Quest Engineering
Model	Q30
Category	Metal Detector
Language	English