Cold Day Test

[Anonymous]

I found 3 mini balls the other day that were all within about a 10 square foot area. This provided a great opportunity to compare digital reading. When located they all had a nice tone that told me they are not iron in conjunction with the digital display. The digital reading was interesting when compared to test that I accomplished today. When detected in the soil the digital reading were in the twenties for conductivity and ferrous number would move around some from a few reading under 10 but most in the teens. So as an average the reading were about 15 ferrous and 22 or so for conductivity.
Nails, square and round almost alwasy read in the 28/28 to 31/31 level but with a good tone. I was able to ignore these digital reading after I dug about 15 to be sure that the digital readings in conjunction with the tones were correct.
I tested these three mini balls on the ground today with only the air to deal with and the detector balanced to the soil. They all read 8/22 and once in a while 7/23 with the coil centered over the ball at about 5 to 6 inches. I then lifted the coil to a new height and repeated the test. The ferrous reading stayed fairly constant but the conductivity reading would slowly decrease. I was very pleased to see the maximum hit on a ball was a veru solid 10

 

[Anonymous]

First and foremost I think the 11 model with Ferrous and Conduct readings gives one more info than only the one digital reading of the XS model. Don't have the 11 model but am sure with testing you can cut down the odds good target versus junk..Remember I have seen soil from different States and surely your numbers may differ, but thru testing you can be more efficient..and perhaps get the ones other miss....