Doctorcoinz said:
You would be surprised just how little difference there is between top range whites and middle range whites detectors on depth.
Gp out hunting with some one with a mid range whites and cross check the signals , you will find that virtually every signal you get with V3 or dfx will also be got by the lower price unit..
I've tested the depth between the different models and that is not true at all. My DFX was the closest but it wasn't pulling bird shot from depth or small pieces of copper from 10 inches! (Half the size of my little finger nail.) Many of the settings and concepts are shared between the two models of equipment and this helped for a much shorter learning curve with the V3. Bit's of foil at 7" blew me away at first!
The differences are huge in several ways. With my DFX , some of the setting adjustments did show for slight improvement but I could only appreciate what they actually did for me after using it all for a bit. The V3 (on the other hand) showed all the main adjustments to be readily apparent and feeling secure with what has been learned has came much quicker. Target separation is better at depth. Isolating between iron is way better. Targets ON iron show up. (I have to use corded headphones for this.) In neutral to high/moderate mineralization......the depth goes so far beyond it isn't funny.
I personally am running with just the V3 (rev. 1.3). Yesterday, I was able to take out a V3i for the first time (to use it for an extended period of time anyways). Different responding machine and even though it was new to me, it ran "crisper" for me. The first place I went was an old haunt of mine to look for jewelry. Once I had the audio all adjusted to my liking, I began a "jewelry hunt" and it soon became apparent that the composite audio for iron trash was much more defined and the machine canceled it out faster.My hunt just became a fast sweep clad and jewelry hunt! I dug everything that could even be a possibility for jewelry and ID was excellent. No rings but my buddy,running a DFX....and he KNOWS his machine, watched as the targets came out. With the V3i, I called every target as to type and structure! Buddy had to get going and I had to get closer to home to get the animals fed. Nothing really done to test depth here.
With animals fed, I decided to go across the street to my town field. This place has been pounded hard since the '70's by every Tom,Dick and Harry with a machine. The main field has mainly 3 hunting conditions. A circa 1920's secondary baseball field with original loam, raised hardpan with very little topsoil, and a place that is a deep loamy composite due to many years of fill to minimize it's swampiness. Back in the late '90's I was still finding pocket spills and individual older coins with my XLT in the '20's baseball field so I decided to do a 5 band/ slow recovery search with the V3i. In an hour of hunting, up came 2 Mercs (28-S and 39-P) and 3 Wheats from depths of 9 to 11 inches! (Numbers skewed but to a predictable pattern that left no room for doubt.)
I've hit this spot with a Garrett DeepSeeker, XLT, 5900 DiPro, MXT, DFX, Classics and even a Surf PI (Difficult because of iron with that one.) and never found THOSE coins. No disrespect intended here, but to say all the Whites machines perform the same (in regards to depth) is an ignorant statement. To say that is ridiculous! Scott
Unfortunately, there was something wrong with your "test".