Sven
Well-known member
Rain just won't go away.
Been reading the C$ reviews and noticed a bunch of people were claiming no depth. Not sure if it was all air test depth or actual in ground depth.
Have to say was not impressed with the air test nor on top of ground type air testing. My old Tesoro Amigo II picked up the coins gold at the same air test depth
as the C$ and sometimes beat it, especially with a faster recovery time........Trying all sorts of C$ settings really didn't help, neither did fresh batteries.
The worst part was the inability to pick up the Canadian half dimes more than 3", lot of them are found up here. I did ask jabbo to do an air test for me to see if
I could repeat it. Which I could. Still the C$ didn't see any good depth doing the on top of the ground testing. Read many folks are getting deep targets and wondering if my
C$ might be a dog. My PI not being set up for silver but configured for gold was getting better depth on the half dime and silver dime. So I sat back for a minute or two,
thinking, there's got to be more depth to be squeezed out of the C$. Remembering that some VLF, PI detectors air test poorly and do better in the ground.
It needs a matrix of some kind to go thru to get the depth. Then remembered Gunnar doing an air test-ground test using a stack of books as a matrix as it was winter time.
So I grabbed 3 old 3" thick books. Started retesting with the half dime etc. Amazingly found the half dime can now be picked up at about 6-7" with a quieter repeatable signal.
And able to pinpoint it in all metal mode. Silver dime was louder as well. Got the same results with all the other targets. Response and recovery time was also better.
At this point, it was clearly better than the one control, preset GB Amigo. Had me wondering there for a minute.....
Threshold was at -15, Sens 9, nothing notched, tracking off.
From this bit of experimentating, going to assume many folks sold their C$ on the premis of a bad, unimpressive air, above ground test.
Been reading the C$ reviews and noticed a bunch of people were claiming no depth. Not sure if it was all air test depth or actual in ground depth.
Have to say was not impressed with the air test nor on top of ground type air testing. My old Tesoro Amigo II picked up the coins gold at the same air test depth
as the C$ and sometimes beat it, especially with a faster recovery time........Trying all sorts of C$ settings really didn't help, neither did fresh batteries.
The worst part was the inability to pick up the Canadian half dimes more than 3", lot of them are found up here. I did ask jabbo to do an air test for me to see if
I could repeat it. Which I could. Still the C$ didn't see any good depth doing the on top of the ground testing. Read many folks are getting deep targets and wondering if my
C$ might be a dog. My PI not being set up for silver but configured for gold was getting better depth on the half dime and silver dime. So I sat back for a minute or two,
thinking, there's got to be more depth to be squeezed out of the C$. Remembering that some VLF, PI detectors air test poorly and do better in the ground.
It needs a matrix of some kind to go thru to get the depth. Then remembered Gunnar doing an air test-ground test using a stack of books as a matrix as it was winter time.
So I grabbed 3 old 3" thick books. Started retesting with the half dime etc. Amazingly found the half dime can now be picked up at about 6-7" with a quieter repeatable signal.
And able to pinpoint it in all metal mode. Silver dime was louder as well. Got the same results with all the other targets. Response and recovery time was also better.
At this point, it was clearly better than the one control, preset GB Amigo. Had me wondering there for a minute.....
Threshold was at -15, Sens 9, nothing notched, tracking off.
From this bit of experimentating, going to assume many folks sold their C$ on the premis of a bad, unimpressive air, above ground test.
