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This is the 20" 14kt (5.2 gram) gold necklace my ACE 250 pulled out for me today. If you're in Coin Mode forget finding something like this using audible tones, it registers on the cursor as foil and since you're discriminating that out you won't get a tone at all. Jewelry Mode barely picks it up and the cursor dances between first segment (foil) and second segment on visual id with audible tone but only for about 2" depth. The only way I found this was by digging a zinc penny that was within 3" of this necklace, and getting a funky signal when I went to all-metal re-checking the hole (being anal about re-checking my "empty" holes finally paid off). The necklace was barely under the surface.
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This is a .925 (6.2 gram) ring and .925 (5.3 gram) pendant found in the same school yard. The pendant was a surface find, the ring blew the headphones off my head and was at 1" or less.
Not a bad days work, but I was surprised at how much difficulty the ACE 250 had in picking out the necklace. Even air testing was troublesome when the chain is piled into a ball. My White's Beach Hunter ID did much better than the ACE even with the ACE sensitivity tuned to max, so that gives me great expectations of the BHID when I start hitting lakes. I'm not complaining, I love my ACE 250 and I realize that a long, thin chain will be hard for most machines to pick up. I'm just glad I didn't miss it entirely.
Steve
This is the 20" 14kt (5.2 gram) gold necklace my ACE 250 pulled out for me today. If you're in Coin Mode forget finding something like this using audible tones, it registers on the cursor as foil and since you're discriminating that out you won't get a tone at all. Jewelry Mode barely picks it up and the cursor dances between first segment (foil) and second segment on visual id with audible tone but only for about 2" depth. The only way I found this was by digging a zinc penny that was within 3" of this necklace, and getting a funky signal when I went to all-metal re-checking the hole (being anal about re-checking my "empty" holes finally paid off). The necklace was barely under the surface.
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This is a .925 (6.2 gram) ring and .925 (5.3 gram) pendant found in the same school yard. The pendant was a surface find, the ring blew the headphones off my head and was at 1" or less.
Not a bad days work, but I was surprised at how much difficulty the ACE 250 had in picking out the necklace. Even air testing was troublesome when the chain is piled into a ball. My White's Beach Hunter ID did much better than the ACE even with the ACE sensitivity tuned to max, so that gives me great expectations of the BHID when I start hitting lakes. I'm not complaining, I love my ACE 250 and I realize that a long, thin chain will be hard for most machines to pick up. I'm just glad I didn't miss it entirely.
Steve
