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180 & 550 Meters Sovereign ID Charts

Hey Critter I have been using Ron's meter on the beach for about a year now it works great and all I have to do every few months is clean the inside where it plugs into the meter. Other then that I'm impressed with Ron's work. So if anyone is standing on the fence and undecided ....I say buy it !!!

Ron L
 
I have both meters,the digisearch 180 and the Sovereign dti 360 as shown.I'm pretty sure that this is the later 360 offering as it is very stable and seem to lock on to targets with a solid reading.I actually prefer it to the 180.
 
On my ipad I justget one photo on the licker site. How do these meters work? Are they using just the receive signsl? Do they affect depth? How would I make one from scratch?
 
I use one that is a modified volt meter. Ron in Michigan sells the meter ready to install. It takes a feed off the signal from the unit and gives a numeric read out. For example a Quarter, dime, Cu penny and all silver read 180. Zinc pennies read 173-177. After a few years of using the sovereign the meter verifies what I think I am hearing.

The meter has no effect on depth. It is also lighter in weight than the ones that were previously commercially made.

Ron's 180 meter attaches to the shaft with a pipe hanger so no holes etc.
 
I've never looked at the rx signal with a scope but I would expect it a fixed frequency with amplitude according to distance or target size.
I wouldn't think a voltmeter alone would work. I think it is more like something that compares phase of tx signal vs rx signal.
 
You may not think it will work but I have been using one for almost five years and they work like a charm. The signal from the detector varies in voltage based on the type of metal the coil is over. Not only does it work it is very accurate.

Of course gold can give a signal all over the place based on size, carat and type of metal it is alloyed with. the gold rings that I have found with the Sovereign have been something that sounded different from the usual junk.
 
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I been using the Sovereigns since 1996 and use the Sun Ray DTI meters which is said to be a volt meter and with Ron's meter it is a volt meter. Now these meters are very accurate once you know your Sovereign well. With these digital meters they do measure the voltage of the return signal and the tones that are so close to tell with the tones the Sovereign gets so the meter can and will tell the difference. To me when I get a 179-180 meter reading it is telling me it is probably a copper penny, or clad or silver dimes or quarters or even a half it is seeing. a 176-177 tells me it can be a zinc penny or even a IH penny and some of the early Wheaties will read here too.. Now nickles seem to have a tone all to there selfs and read 143-145 and the war nickles can read up to 151, but they have the nickle tone to them. The round pull tabs read in this area too, but don't have the nickle tone, but close. The beaver tails off the old round pull tabs will read 140-141. by using the meter with the tones I find I do dig a few pull tabs but nowhere I do with any other detector. Like I say the Sovereigns with the good 180 meter is the most accurate coin detector I have ever seen and have some great coins and jewelry finds in many places that have been well worked over the years.

Rick
 
I've found that the excal and sov have a DAC controlled VCO for audio tone and this voltage goes out the cable connector on the sov. For the excal we have to find a test point for it.
 
I'm curious as to why you would ever need to test that? The audio you have is all you're ever going to have.
 
surfman said:
I'm curious as to why you would ever need to test that? The audio you have is all you're ever going to have.
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Just curious to hook ID meter to excal - not sure if I'd need/use it.
 
I would like to purchase a Patriot like yours and would offer between $500.00 -->$700.00 for a nice unit, any ideas were I might find one?
 
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