Today I used the Max at two places and it worked great at both places. At the first spot the ground was somewhat milder than my normal spots. The ground balanced at 83. I used zero mode, 24 iron disc, and two bars from max sens, I found a silver war nickel and old wheat penny. Both were surrounded by trash and were about 8 inches deep. The second spot is my favorite park with bad ground. The ground here balanced at 95-96 and it seems to lose depth in any of the disc modes. I hunted another hill with little trash. My Buffalo nickel streak continued when I found a 9 inch deep Buff using all metal. When I re-checked the hole, I was getting another weak signal flashing low 90's occasionally. Three inches from the Buff, I dug another mercury dime. When I got the second signal I tried every other mode with different iron disc and max sensitivity. I could not get a peep, but only a broken threshold.
I have had problems with many detectors in this park. I have had nickels high tone and have numbers indicating copper like readings. I have also had two Tesoros that would not ground balance here. It has to be the ground. The Max in the disc modes are accurate with the numbers and tones down to about 6 inches. Below that, there is nothing and I mean nothing. All metal works better than any detector I have used in all metal. The threshold is very smooth and steady. As I said in an earlier post, deep coins will not lock on with tight numbers when they are 7 plus inches. I have found that when I dig numbers that are above 50 and are deep, many times they are good targets.
When I got home, I did some testing in my coin garden. Here the ground balanced at 82 and I could hit every coin perfectly even with half sensitivity. Perfect numbers and tones even on the 7-8 inch nickel. I tried a simple cherry picking program in custom mode and found some interesting facts. I first accepted only the four segments for silver-copper. I could hit the 5 inch coins , but only with max sens. I opened up two more segments, making six from the right all open. With six open, I could hit all targets except for the buried nickel. Clean signals even on the deeper coins. Two more open notches made a world of difference.
I am really liking the Max, but I have noticed the batteries are only lasting me 10 hours or so. The manual states 10- 20 hours when using the wireless phones so I guess this is within the range. For the record, I am using cheap alkaline batteries from a local store called Wegmans. AA's are so cheap and since the Max uses only four batteries, I can live with this minor problem. I would not give up the wireless phones so I will live with the short battery life. Again, these Z link phones sound great and feel great. I could never go back to the corded phones.
I have had problems with many detectors in this park. I have had nickels high tone and have numbers indicating copper like readings. I have also had two Tesoros that would not ground balance here. It has to be the ground. The Max in the disc modes are accurate with the numbers and tones down to about 6 inches. Below that, there is nothing and I mean nothing. All metal works better than any detector I have used in all metal. The threshold is very smooth and steady. As I said in an earlier post, deep coins will not lock on with tight numbers when they are 7 plus inches. I have found that when I dig numbers that are above 50 and are deep, many times they are good targets.
When I got home, I did some testing in my coin garden. Here the ground balanced at 82 and I could hit every coin perfectly even with half sensitivity. Perfect numbers and tones even on the 7-8 inch nickel. I tried a simple cherry picking program in custom mode and found some interesting facts. I first accepted only the four segments for silver-copper. I could hit the 5 inch coins , but only with max sens. I opened up two more segments, making six from the right all open. With six open, I could hit all targets except for the buried nickel. Clean signals even on the deeper coins. Two more open notches made a world of difference.
I am really liking the Max, but I have noticed the batteries are only lasting me 10 hours or so. The manual states 10- 20 hours when using the wireless phones so I guess this is within the range. For the record, I am using cheap alkaline batteries from a local store called Wegmans. AA's are so cheap and since the Max uses only four batteries, I can live with this minor problem. I would not give up the wireless phones so I will live with the short battery life. Again, these Z link phones sound great and feel great. I could never go back to the corded phones.
