How deep can you get with the Ace 250?

[pencil5757]

Lets say with a dime, I have a super deep relic machine so I'm not looking for that, just a unit to hunt old houses for coins with ID.

 

[Countrykid]

7-8" max on stock coil. if it is flat
on side 6" maybe.

 

[pencil5757]

n/t

 

[Uncle Willy]

Depth is a fleeting term and varies with soil conditions across the country. With the standard coil and ideal conditions you should get one at eight inches plus.

Bill

 

[Ralph Bryant]

.....how deep do you NEED to get ? With TID/VID machines, once you begin to get depth beyond the range of accurate discrimination or identification, you might as well be using a plain old progressive discrimination machine. For I.D. purposes, 10 inches is getting close to the maximum for most ID machines, so if you take an inch or two off of that for the sake of accuracy, any good ID machine that will hit coins to 8 inches while ACCURATELY AND CONSISTENTLY identifying them, then there just isn't much to complain about. Of course, as Bill mentioned, alot has to do with the ground conditions too, but that applies to all machines in a particular location. But when a machine will do that for ~$200, it makes some of us sit back and scratch our heads and wonder why we spend so much time looking for the Holy Grail of higher-end machines costing 5 or 6 times the price. And how much more time will it take for a ~$1200 machine to "pay for itself" than a ~$200 machine ? I know where I would place my bets !

Ralph

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[jerryo]

The way I understand it is that all dirt is different, but in my yard I have a dime buried 6 inches deep. It has been buried for about 6 years. With my ACE 250 I can easily pick it up with the ID jumping from penny to dime. No one wants to say how deep they can get a dime, but if every one did, over a period of time we could all get an idea of perhaps how deep a paticular detector will detect a dime. Just my thoughts. Jerry