MarkCZ
Well-known member
"Sven" I take it that the lower part of your post is a copy & paste from Mr. Bill correct?
Let me add to that a bit.
Bill Ladd did some field testing with the C$, but when the Edge came out Bill Ladd also contributed to some of the design of it, I'm not saying that's good or bad, its just what it is.
Also, in Mr. Bill's statement I'm not sure what he meant by "You have a semi auto ground balance" but the C$ has an automatic ground balance in that you find a clean spot in the ground, press and hold the ground balance touch pad raise the coil off the ground and release the button, the unit will BEEP to indicate its complete.
The C$'s ID system is really pretty good but its not the first thing to go for when you get a response, its the tone and its repeatability, then watch the display. Like, those rusty bottle caps fool a lot of machines and maybe the C$ a little more but what I found is when its a cap you may get a high tone on one pass and then it may drop out on the second pass?? here is a sign, sweep and watch the display, on the silent pass you will notice a minus reading (iron) in relationship to the positive reading, the detector is telling you that the target is most likely not a keeper.
Next, that fast recovery speed, while hunting that outdoor theater I discovered that the C$ will do another thing interesting. It will clue you to coins (good targets) being mask buy other unwanted targets. Now I don't remember finding any that day in with rusty Iron but the C$ was amazing at doing this with common pitched litter like is found at outdoor events. It has a way of "Hinting" to the coin, like in one direction of the swing you'll get the coin tone, in the other you'll get the ID for the other target, like its repeating a 26-28 then maybe the other way you keep getting a 14-18 that's the hint! there is most likely a penny or dime down there. Also, the C$ is one detector that got me in the habit of circling the targets (moving around) it as I sweep the coil over it, in doing this I found that if I can clean the signal up in any one direction then you would do good to dig it.
I think some of the lose ID numbers with the C$ may come from the detector trying to read and identify more seeing how the display is all metal.
One thing that helped me with the C$ was the one I first got came with a bad coil and I didn't know it, I fought and fought with it trying to get it to do something right, trying to figure it out, I tried every setting every adjustment and the only reason I stuck with it is because on a few occasions it seemed to work if only for a few minutes. Then a co-worker at work bought one and his ran perfect! so we switched control housing (that was easier that dismounting the coils) THEN!!! it all came together, all those times of going through the settings and adjustments became so simple, but that still left me to learning the language, learning those hints and it tricks.
I had mine out just last night for awhile and it had me DIGGING! I found the deepest penny at our city park that I've found in a long time, not sure of the date yet because its pretty corroded and I've got it soaking in Olive oil right now.
This is my second C$, I sold or traded ?? the first one I had, but this one I got off Mr.Bill and was a new one so its still under warranty (if First Texas would honor it??)
I was a little surprised at how stable the detector was last night, I was running it pretty hot with the sensitivity at 9 and the threshold at -5, I tried the threshold at 0 and it got a little jumpy, so I dropped it back to -5.
I had a bit of excitement with the C$ in that I thought I had found GOLD! they're wasn't a lot of coins in the area so I needed to get back into shape with the C$ so I thought I would practice and dig some Zinc's so its late evening and I get a good 21-22 reading, (ZInc) and I start digging and at about 3" of so I saw the glint of GOLD! so getting down to be able to get it out it started looking like a bracelet, so I started pulling it out and it looked even more like a bracelet, then when I got it out about half way I could see that it was a ladies Gold Toned, maybe gold filled watch?? Its not going to work for sure but I was surprised in its overall condition. The watch was a service award for a lady who's name is on the back and it was also dated,
Marsha H. Slater
1983
State Farm Life
Its looks like it may have a small Diamond @ 12:00
I don't know if it would be worth enough to try and return it or not? but it was still a good find.
Mark
Let me add to that a bit.
Bill Ladd did some field testing with the C$, but when the Edge came out Bill Ladd also contributed to some of the design of it, I'm not saying that's good or bad, its just what it is.
Also, in Mr. Bill's statement I'm not sure what he meant by "You have a semi auto ground balance" but the C$ has an automatic ground balance in that you find a clean spot in the ground, press and hold the ground balance touch pad raise the coil off the ground and release the button, the unit will BEEP to indicate its complete.
The C$'s ID system is really pretty good but its not the first thing to go for when you get a response, its the tone and its repeatability, then watch the display. Like, those rusty bottle caps fool a lot of machines and maybe the C$ a little more but what I found is when its a cap you may get a high tone on one pass and then it may drop out on the second pass?? here is a sign, sweep and watch the display, on the silent pass you will notice a minus reading (iron) in relationship to the positive reading, the detector is telling you that the target is most likely not a keeper.
Next, that fast recovery speed, while hunting that outdoor theater I discovered that the C$ will do another thing interesting. It will clue you to coins (good targets) being mask buy other unwanted targets. Now I don't remember finding any that day in with rusty Iron but the C$ was amazing at doing this with common pitched litter like is found at outdoor events. It has a way of "Hinting" to the coin, like in one direction of the swing you'll get the coin tone, in the other you'll get the ID for the other target, like its repeating a 26-28 then maybe the other way you keep getting a 14-18 that's the hint! there is most likely a penny or dime down there. Also, the C$ is one detector that got me in the habit of circling the targets (moving around) it as I sweep the coil over it, in doing this I found that if I can clean the signal up in any one direction then you would do good to dig it.
I think some of the lose ID numbers with the C$ may come from the detector trying to read and identify more seeing how the display is all metal.
One thing that helped me with the C$ was the one I first got came with a bad coil and I didn't know it, I fought and fought with it trying to get it to do something right, trying to figure it out, I tried every setting every adjustment and the only reason I stuck with it is because on a few occasions it seemed to work if only for a few minutes. Then a co-worker at work bought one and his ran perfect! so we switched control housing (that was easier that dismounting the coils) THEN!!! it all came together, all those times of going through the settings and adjustments became so simple, but that still left me to learning the language, learning those hints and it tricks.
I had mine out just last night for awhile and it had me DIGGING! I found the deepest penny at our city park that I've found in a long time, not sure of the date yet because its pretty corroded and I've got it soaking in Olive oil right now.
This is my second C$, I sold or traded ?? the first one I had, but this one I got off Mr.Bill and was a new one so its still under warranty (if First Texas would honor it??)
I was a little surprised at how stable the detector was last night, I was running it pretty hot with the sensitivity at 9 and the threshold at -5, I tried the threshold at 0 and it got a little jumpy, so I dropped it back to -5.
I had a bit of excitement with the C$ in that I thought I had found GOLD! they're wasn't a lot of coins in the area so I needed to get back into shape with the C$ so I thought I would practice and dig some Zinc's so its late evening and I get a good 21-22 reading, (ZInc) and I start digging and at about 3" of so I saw the glint of GOLD! so getting down to be able to get it out it started looking like a bracelet, so I started pulling it out and it looked even more like a bracelet, then when I got it out about half way I could see that it was a ladies Gold Toned, maybe gold filled watch?? Its not going to work for sure but I was surprised in its overall condition. The watch was a service award for a lady who's name is on the back and it was also dated,
Marsha H. Slater
1983
State Farm Life
Its looks like it may have a small Diamond @ 12:00
I don't know if it would be worth enough to try and return it or not? but it was still a good find.
Mark
Although I almost always used the auto ground tracking, so perhaps it corrected itself? 