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Coinstrike RF interferance?

K

Kidd

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Hi,Has anyone had experience with RF interfereance with there coinstrike. I am considering selling my cz-70 for the coinstrike. I was suprised to be warned about rfi, I am concerned because I live in the Boston area, where there can be plenty of rfi. Coins are my big target, old coins, the 70 does well, but I have heard of the CS having better ability to knock out the iron. The 70 seems to give me a false coin indication every time I pass over the edge of a piece of iorn. The I.D numbers will prove helpful as well. All this sounds great, but if it suffers from rfi, whats the point? Anyhoo, thanks for you attention.
Gerry
 
I have been on a couple of sites where RFI was a problem. Both times however, I was directly under power lines. But there is good news (and I don't mean I just saved a bunch on my car insurance). I have been able to successfully hunt those places with the C$. I just had to back the sens way back. I hit a silver dime at 4.5" with the sens on "0". The C$ is an awesome machine. It's hard to beat in trash. I think the RFI thing got blown way out of proportion way back when. Let's just put it this way. If RFI was a big deal, this forum wouldn't be here. We would all be using something else. I never thought I would ever use anything other than a CZ. After I bought my Coin$trike I never used my CZ again. But don't take my word for it. I'm sure a few more people will offer up their opinions as well. Good hunting with what ever you use! :fisher:
 
Best thing I've heard all day. I have a CZ-70. As good as it is, I want to do better around iorn trash.
Kidd
 
I think the big key is just being able to ground balance the C$ near this stuff. If you try to balance under power lines then the C$ goes nuts. I have always been able to get my C$ to do well near powerlines & these new Amtrack train lines, by simply shutting down & walking away from it. Go across the road if you have to. Then balance & come back & hunt.....that, + turning sens. down as Tony said will "git er Dun!" :devil:
 
you can get the C$ and keep the 70, I'd highly recommend it as they are the best 1-2 TID punch on the market IMHO!
 
I understand that the ideal condition for ground balancing is finding a metal-free area (e.g., a 0 reading and no sound as you sweep the area in the all-metal mode) and GB-ing there. But what if you can't find an area like that? How do you ground balance accurately if the C$ is constantly indicating the presence of metal?

Thanks,

c.
 
coppersnipe Wrote:
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> I understand that the ideal condition for ground
> balancing is finding a metal-free area (e.g., a 0
> reading and no sound as you sweep the area in the
> all-metal mode) and GB-ing there. But what if you
> can't find an area like that? How do you ground
> balance accurately if the C$ is constantly
> indicating the presence of metal?
>
> Thanks,
>
> c.

Like Coppersnipe , I have been in many area's were I can't find a clean spot to ground Balance . Even if I walk to another area . What to Do !?!
 
I might be wrong, but doesn't the manual say something about turning on tracking, so it's constantly GB'ing?
Tagamet
 
when I can't find a clean place. Run the sens low, 5 or less and turn on track. Sweep a half a dozen times around you, then turn it off. After you do this, try again to see if you can find a clean spot to ground balance on. I have found in my area that in some places my turn on balance was so far off that I was picking up the ground and not metal. Once I had tracked and got my gb more in tune with the ground, I was able to find a spot to actually ground balance on. Did it balance out better? I dont know :shrug:

Someplaces here the ground changes based upon the soil layers so I just leave tracking on.

Happy CoinStriking :)
 
But I don't re-ground balance over clean ground. I leave the tracking on and in all metal just sweep away until I hit a fairly clean spot and after making a few sweeps over that area turn the tracking off. Seems to help me anyway.

Tom
 
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