Pyledriver
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Today I finally had enough time to get out for a few hours of quality time with the AT! I went to an old homesite that has been picked over waay before I ever got there, but it still gives up a surprise or two. Previous finds were an 1899 Indian penny, an Interurban Railway token, and a bunch of wheat pennies and cool old buttons. Nobody has ever pulled any silver out of this place since I've been going..and today was no different.
I found a clean spot to balance the detector-which is pretty hard to do in that place, and the first target I hit after that was a memorial penny. I spent the next hour monkeying around with coin, zero, pro and std modes just to see how the detector responded to the various trash targets in the ground. I now feel extremely confident that when the detector ID's aluminum, it's aluminum! Now of course, I'd dig those targets in the right circumstances, but I know this place pretty well, and the next most frequent trash target besides iron is aluminum in the form of foil, tabs, wire and unidentifiable bits. Still, I dug probably 25 or so targets just to be sure that the TID was accurate.
Now one thing VERY noteworthy to me was that I got an ID of 'AO' a few times, usually accompanied by an ID of 99. When this happened it was always big iron and usually pretty shallow. I guess this may be an overload signal, I got that frequently on my X brand detector, and the AT acted exactly the same. Otherwise the response time was incredible, I could swing the detector and hear all the iron hits along the swing. Even when there was a peice of aluminum in the midst of the iron, the detector was able to sniff it out and reported it right along with everything else at what I estimated as a 3ft per second swing rate.
Finds for the day included a broken knife blade, a fishing sinker, a buckle, a wheat penny (1937), a couple memorial pennies in horribly corroded condition, and one that was ok. I also found 3 cool old marbles just laying there in the dirt! The long object is one for the bonus round-I know what it is-y'all guess what it is!
So no good targets, but I got a great feel for how this detector responds and what it's telling me. Obviously there is more to learn about the detector, but I feel quite confident that it will continue to perform and impress!
I found a clean spot to balance the detector-which is pretty hard to do in that place, and the first target I hit after that was a memorial penny. I spent the next hour monkeying around with coin, zero, pro and std modes just to see how the detector responded to the various trash targets in the ground. I now feel extremely confident that when the detector ID's aluminum, it's aluminum! Now of course, I'd dig those targets in the right circumstances, but I know this place pretty well, and the next most frequent trash target besides iron is aluminum in the form of foil, tabs, wire and unidentifiable bits. Still, I dug probably 25 or so targets just to be sure that the TID was accurate.
Now one thing VERY noteworthy to me was that I got an ID of 'AO' a few times, usually accompanied by an ID of 99. When this happened it was always big iron and usually pretty shallow. I guess this may be an overload signal, I got that frequently on my X brand detector, and the AT acted exactly the same. Otherwise the response time was incredible, I could swing the detector and hear all the iron hits along the swing. Even when there was a peice of aluminum in the midst of the iron, the detector was able to sniff it out and reported it right along with everything else at what I estimated as a 3ft per second swing rate.
Finds for the day included a broken knife blade, a fishing sinker, a buckle, a wheat penny (1937), a couple memorial pennies in horribly corroded condition, and one that was ok. I also found 3 cool old marbles just laying there in the dirt! The long object is one for the bonus round-I know what it is-y'all guess what it is!
So no good targets, but I got a great feel for how this detector responds and what it's telling me. Obviously there is more to learn about the detector, but I feel quite confident that it will continue to perform and impress!