Golden Umax

[jst2kool]

I just ordered a Golden UMAX! Hope that i made the right choice.

 

[DetectorOCD]

Just take time to learn it. You're going to love it!

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Well learned its a good unit but too many notches and tones for me...Being used to a high and low tone with one notch I prefer the oldie but goodie Pantera which has a manual ground balance but again many do well with it especially those that understand the audio and especially the areas where you get sort of a two tone effect which helps them understand what the unit is telling them. Pehaps some die hard Golden U-max guys can give you some input and tips...Old machine for an old guy I guess and good luck with your new purchase...

 

[jst2kool]

Thanks.

 

[slingshot]

I just ordered a Golden UMAX! Hope that i made the right choice.

Just use forum search and look for articles by Mike Hillis. You'll feel really great after reading them.

 

[daddyflea]

I just ordered a Golden UMAX! Hope that i made the right choice.

Hopefully I can answer any questions you may have. In my opinion the Golden Umax is the best Coinshooter there is bar none. I put other Tesoros on this list because I just do not care for Screen Displays. They Lie and take up too much time. The only thing good about screen display that I have found is a little more accurate Depth Reading than you can get with the Golden. Now there is an Improved Version of the Golden Umax. I have one coming but I will not be able to test it until maybe next week or so. What is improved is the tones. Way I understand the tones have been made more Distinctive to where they are easier to tell apart. I really had no problem telling them apart but the desire to have the latest and greatest got to me. From my experience with the Golden Umax is that it is specifically designed to find Coins. I have a Golden saber II that I enjoy hunting with but it is a little different design and in some cases it will be better for Relics than the Golden Umax.

You should find that your Golden Umax (Official Name is Golden Micromax) will over load on shallow cans. I hate digging these and this is a fine feature. It would be terrible if the Machine overloaded on Large Coins laying on the surface but it doesn't.

You should get a nice high tone on real copper pennies, dimes, and Quarters.

You get a 3rd tone on Zinc Pennies.

Nickles, rings, and Pop tops get the Second tone.

Foil and iron gets the first lowest tone.

There are three positions on your Notch. Off is Off
Narrow picks up Nickles, zinc Pennies, Copper Pennies, dimes, and Quarters. (My Normal setting) You will dig some Pop tops here.
Wide picks up Nickles, (Cuts Zinc Pennies) Copper Pennies, dimes, and Quarters. (Cuts almost all Pop tops)

You will dig all the depth you want with the Golden Umax. I got coins under the new gravel parking lot of an old Church.

I feel that I can hear the coil popping across Pull Tabs with just plain cheap Headphones, so I can usually tell a Nickle from a Pull Tab. I rarely dig rings because I hunt extremely trashy areas and I cut those pull tabs. Even if I was cautious and dug every signal it would be physically impossible to dig all those tabs.

I will do a full review on the Golden Umax Improved as soon as I get it and we get a rain. I went out for a few hours yesterday and gave up digging even all the High tones on my Golden saber because the ground here is just too hard to dig. It is like digging in solid rock right now. The Saber is not a real deep detector but anything over 4 inches is just too difficult to dig right now.

I recommend that you set your Threshhold where it is almost quiet. Set your sensitivity somewhere about 7 or 8.
Set your Discriminate where it hits real solid on a Nickle. Set your Notch Off while you are doing this.

Now set your Notch on Narrow and adjust it to hit hard on Nickles.

Find something then lift your coil to get an idea on depth and dig. You will soon tell by sound about how deep the target is without raising the coil.

I found a Silver Dime and a Wheat Penny yesterday on my School Grounds. These grounds were used for a County Fair 30 years ago and it is still giving up Silver and I know 6 other persons living near me that Metal Detect. A lot of them use other Brands Detectors. I get so many Coins my back hurts from digging them. My first three finds yesterday were all nickles as well. Seems those other brands are not doing so well on the Nickles.

 

[jst2kool]

Thanks, That helped alot, I hope the 1 that i orderd is the new and improved model.

 

[blowfly1967]

hi daddyflea,i have both ,the silver umax and the golden umax,both operate on 10khz,one has singular responce,the other multiple responces.which one in your opinion finds more.if it beeps i dig it.blowfly

 

[daddyflea]

I can not say which finds more but I can say, when I get tired of digging questionable targets, I start ignoring the low tones, just digging the High Tones, which puts you back in the mood to dig more. I really like the tones. My Golden Saber has tones as well but they change with the settings so you really can not trust them much.

 

[jabbo]

When using the Narrow or Wide notch set the Threshold CCW almost all the way. With that setting the Golden will not beep on deep pulltabs. If Treshold is set higher it will beep on the deep tabs. Also set Adjustable Notch knob CCW almost all the way and it will not pick up broken off beaver tails.With those settings it will still beep on ladies gold rings.

 

[daddyflea]

When using the Narrow or Wide notch set the Threshold CCW almost all the way. With that setting the Golden will not beep on deep pulltabs. If Treshold is set higher it will beep on the deep tabs. Also set Adjustable Notch knob CCW almost all the way and it will not pick up broken off beaver tails.With those settings it will still beep on ladies gold rings.

Thanks that is good information.