AT Gold Depth Test

[TennTyrant]

I have a clad dime buried at 10 inches in my yard, My Safari can barley hear it its really choppy, my X5 can hear it in all metal, but not in disc, and my AT gold can hear it strong in all metal I can even raise the coil another 4 or so inches, strong in mode 1 can also raise the coil a bit above ground, and choppy in mode 2. I think Im really gonna like the AT Gold it seems to be a deep seeker.

 

[surf n turf]

That's awesome, thanks for the info. HH Dale

 

[MikeLab]

Try different sweep speeds. What I found is a slow sweep and the deep target will drop out. I know people say to go slow, but you try it and see.

 

[CladDog]

10 inches is incredibly impressive for any machine.

Did it give you any kind of ID number?

Is your soil mild?

I am also curious how long that dime has been buried.

 

[TennTyrant]

The dime has been buried for about two weeks and the meter was jumping between 72 and 82, but I could still raise the coil up a few more inches and still get it. My ground balance number was 38.

 

[William-NM]

Yep, the AT Golds are really sensitive machines. I carry a 19" transplanting spade and dig a lot of targets in the lower half of that length. (Of course, some turn out to be '54 Plymouths, heh).

 

[CladDog]

That is an amazing result.

 

[David-Edmonton]

Perhaps someone could help clarify a few things. What does the Ground Balance number really mean? Does it represent mineralization? If you have a high number result as I have heard of a lot from others (75-85 as an example) would this cause problems with detecting on such soil as compared to a low GB number like TennTyrant's 38 mention here earlier? Would a much higher number reduce the ability to detecting as deep as someone with a GB being lower?