DELEON VDI INFO

[Anonymous]

Hey, have a buddy with a new DELEON and since he doesnt have a computer, he wanted me to post a question here for him....as he is an avid coin collector, is interested in finding the older "stuff"....from what I have read on these forums, a lot of the older coins can fall in the mid-range area.....does anyone out there have enough experience on the DELEON to have info as to where various coins, trash, etc. falls in the numerical readout of this machine?.....thanks in advance for any help.....WHISKERS

 

[Anonymous]

From what I have read and compared in forum posts the numbers may not be exactly the same from one machine to the other.Other factors may affect the numbers such as outside interference and coil preference. The best reference I had was an air test and test garden on the items in question. Then I had a pretty accurate "log" of numbers customized to my machine and coils. Dig a hole, throw in a coin, cover, sweep, record the results. Try different depths, coins on edge, gold rings, chains, different coils. That should give you a little better number guide. Hope this helps. HH.

 

[Anonymous]

Silver reads as "95" and lights the silver bar. My unscientific experience indicates the softer metals (pennies & nickles) corrode easier and due to the resulting halo read a little softer in the numbers than more recently dropped coins. I would strongly recommend to your buddy that if digging ALL good signals is acceptable to do just that and commit the readings to memory. You need to consider target masking, target depth, and the various compositions that have been used in coins to see that there can be no fast and true numbers or accuracy in reliance of the numbers and graphs. The best use of the numbers and graphs may be as an additional discrimination if a particular trash item is prevalent. We have all heard the stories of the baseline machines finding the goodies behind the higher end machines and usually it is due to user error, i.e. passing on a signal that was believed to be trash. Your buddy would do very well to use a coil appropriate to the conditions and a good set of headphones and work his Deleon slowly and methodically. The posts from the experienced TID users seem to agree that the graph is more important than the numerical reading. Remember that the deeper the item, the less accurately the machine can process the information. If it sounds good dig it or he may be "short changing" himself. HH!

 

[Anonymous]

Sorry G-T, I couldnt resist <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> I know what you meant, but just had to say that!
J.

 

[Anonymous]

You Said pretty much all that I would have said <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">
I guess I missed a few good targets early on, as I relied too heavily on the target number, and the bar graph <img src="/metal/html/frown.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> Now what I do is dig everything that gives a good audio, regardless of what's coming up on the screen. Ok, sometimes I end up digging out a big piece of iron, but sometimes it's a good target that for some reason is giving a bad visual indication. I suppose this could be due to it being a small target that might be in bad ground, or perhaps it's near to a junk item... digging the 'iffy' ones pays off!
HH y'all

 

[Anonymous]

I wasn't quite myself on that post!