Air test on 5 different detectors today

[trezurhunter]

The weather is terrible outside. We just got about ten inches of snow and I'm going crazy. So I air tested 5 of my detectors today. I have a White's XLT, a White's 6000 di pro sl, a Fisher 1236-X2, a Tesoro Silver Sabre umax, and a Troy Shadow X5. Here are my results.

1. White's XLT using the stock 9 in coil, relic mode.
I had a nickel air test at 8 1/2 inches.
I had a dime air test at 8 inches.

2. White's 6000 di pro sl using the 8 in coil, all settings at preset, signal bal. max.
I had a nickel air test at 10 inches.
I had a dime air test at 10 inches.

3. Fisher 1236-X2 using the stock 8 in coil, sens @ 8, disc @ 2, silencer off.
I had a nickel air test at 7 inches.
I had a dime air test at 7 inches.

4. Tesoro Silver Sabre umax using the stock 8 in coil, disc @ 2, sens set to max.
I had a nickel air test at 8 inches.
I had a dime air test at 7 inches.

5. Troy Shadow X5 using the 7 in coil, disc @ 3, sens @ 8.
I had a nickel air test at 12 inches.
I had a dime air test at 11 inches.

I don't know if these tests will help anybody but I just did them because I am snowed in, and I was curious as to see what my detectors would do.

The Trezurhunter.

 

[Elton]

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[JB(MS)]

I bought an X5 a few months after they came out, added a 7 inch coil when they became available and won a set of Troy headphones in a contest on the Shadow forum. It worked well in the mild ground here but I didn't use it much after the first three months and 18 months after I got it I gave it all to my daughter to sell on Ebay. With the 9 inch coil it got some impressive airtest numbers, including a nickel lying on the ground at close to 15 inches. A couple of weeks after I got it I was detecting a site where carnivals were held in the 1940's and 50's and an older than me guy stopped by to check it out. He asked how deep it would go, so after I made sure there wasn't any metal in the ground I dropped a nickel with the intention of impressing him with how far it would airtest it, but it would only get it at 5 inches max. That was with sensitivity on 8 and disc set just below 3. He laughed real big and said his XLT would beat that badly. I was somewhat embarrased as I had really put some bragging on him. After he left I happened to notice I was directly under a powerline, so I walked about 20 feet off to the side and it would airtest the nickel at well over a foot. Checked it under the powerline again with the same 5 inch result. For some reason, some of the power lines here killed it's depth but some didn't. In any case, from that time on I've made sure conditions were okay before I try to impress someone with a detector.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Trezurhunter, to be fair turn that sensitivity up on the 1236X until you get threshold.You set the Tesoro at max.In my ground I always maxed the sensitivity on the 1236.Let me know what your results are.Thanks

 

[trezurhunter]

Hi Ron,
I set all the sensitivities to max where they would remain stable. This was an indoor test and those are the results that came about. I do not favor any one of my detectors over the other. I thought the Fisher should have done better. I was also disappointed in the Tesoro.

The Trezurhunter.

 

[B.T]

Air tests prove little. Some machine have hugely better ground cancelling abilities and tracking and yet in the air something which is nowhere near as good can look like it matches it or even betters it. Testing such as that is like getting two boats, one a bass lake fishing boat and the other an open water ocean fishing boat and testing them both in a swimming pool. I have seen people buy cheap chinese rubbish because in an air test demo they saw the chinese junk match a machine that was four times dearer. Naturally they thought the brand machine was a rip off con. Later they went head to head out in the real world with soemone who had the dearer machine and got blitzed. Guess who sold their machine to get another one?