Explorer Question???

[mickfin]

I hear Explorers don`t Like Loos Ground But you see Im in plowed fields all the time i don`t understand??? Thanks Mickfin

 

[sgoss66]

I personally have only see the Explorer "not like" loose ground when you are digging a coin, and you pull a plug and yet the coin is still in the "loose dirt" in the hole. Sometimes, for some reason, the Explorer struggles to see that coin.

But, results in my couple-of-month-old test garden are very similar to the results I get in the field. I don't know if that's true in all dirt, but for me, I haven't found my "test garden" coins to read much differently at all from a coin I find when out hunting. Not sure about plowed fields...

Steve

 

[mickfin]

Hi Norman, I think its the Haylo efect?? I got a few signals today and dug and thay disappeared on me,
Its something Like that?? Just thought of that today?? Mick,

 

[BJ in Okla.]

Mick,
I was told by Dave J. and Tom D. that there was no such thing as a Halo from a coin....
I think there is but what do I know.
BJ

 

[mickfin]

BJ i think their is too on Any metal in the ground 4R a wile, But more on Iron, Theirs got too be leaching, The rule is if three people agree go with that??
Mick

 

[BJ in Okla.]

n/t

 

[Larry (IL)]

The ground has to be ideal and moisture is most important, but yes there are halos on targets.... at least here in the Mid-West in our black moist ground. I have experienced the effect thousands of times both audible and in extreme situations you can also see the change in the soil color where the chemical composition has changed due to the natural electrolysis between the target and the minerals in the surrounding ground. There is very little, if any, "leaching" involved, it is all electrochemical changes in the ground or in the target with the easiest to see is iron that has rusted and copper that has turned green. Silver and Gold are Nobel metals and the chemical changes are in the ground and not the metal.

 

[BJ in Okla.]

I have seen like a old wheat back in a clod of dirt, once the penny was removed, the detector still hit on the dirt clod, and yet, nothing in the clod...


HH...BJ

 

[Larry (IL)]

Yep, that happens, and what you were detecting was the oxides left over from the galvanic action of the copper. That is what makes the target appear larger than it really is. Also know as a HALO.

 

[sgoss66]

Hey BJ -- I have seen that happen, too. You remove the coin, and the machine still gives a weak hit on the dirt clod!

Steve

 

[mickfin]

Yes BJ i just got a beer Hooa!!!!! Mickfin

 

[Doctorcoinz]

On loose dry soil , or as we call it here in the uk "freshly ploughed soil" i have noticed the depth has a massive reduction. Maybe as much as 75 per cent reduction in depth.