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Got that new 9 x 12 inch coil for my ACE 250 today and immediately put it on the "YELLER FELLER". First place I went to was my test garden to see how it worked there. It could easily pick up the 6 inch silver dime and also the 8 inch dime with a little scrubbing of the coil on the ground. The 6 inch quarter could easily be picked up with the coil raised above the ground for a couple of inches. Again... the 8 inch coil could be picked up with a little scrubbing on the ground. Not too shabby, as the test garden is only a couple of years old. Oh well, out to the field for some penny popping.
I took it out to a sports field a couple of blocks from home. I had been there several times this year, and was presently gridding the soccer field.
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Well, after an hour and a half, I got 59 coins or $1.59. I was very surprised at how well this coil was so sensitive to tiny bits of metal. Usually, the larger the coil, the less sensitive to tiny objects. Not so with this coil. I ran it in jewelry mode and it picked up little rivets and tiny balls of aluminum foil. I found it difficult to size a couple objects, as I am so used to the profiling or imaging feature of its older brothers. The ID was right on for pull-tabs, tinfoil and the quarter, dimes and nickel all read in the coin icon region and bell-toned. This is a real bonus for our Canadian clad, as some other metal detectors have a hard time picking up our clad. If it Bell-Toned, it was a coin, always. Pinpointing was also so easy, just like the smaller coil. I would center a target on the coil, then move it backwards until the audio stopped. The target would always be directly under the center of the inner forward coil, or under the "
" This machine just loves Canadian dimes, which can be a challenge to some other machines. It readily gave a good strong bell-Tone. Although it wasn't under the 10 cent icon, it was under the coins in general.
The silver gods were with me again today and allowed me to find a 1942 silver dime and a tiny .925 motorcycle charm. The size of the coil was also a bonus. One doesn't get so over-whelmed when looking at a large soccer field, thinking about the thousands of swings of the coil it will take to cover such a large area. And weight wise..........it's very light. I could easily swing it all day with little fatigue.
Gotta do a relic hunt next......
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Got that new 9 x 12 inch coil for my ACE 250 today and immediately put it on the "YELLER FELLER". First place I went to was my test garden to see how it worked there. It could easily pick up the 6 inch silver dime and also the 8 inch dime with a little scrubbing of the coil on the ground. The 6 inch quarter could easily be picked up with the coil raised above the ground for a couple of inches. Again... the 8 inch coil could be picked up with a little scrubbing on the ground. Not too shabby, as the test garden is only a couple of years old. Oh well, out to the field for some penny popping.
I took it out to a sports field a couple of blocks from home. I had been there several times this year, and was presently gridding the soccer field.
<center><img src="http://members.shaw.ca/john_edmonton/motorbike.jpg">
Well, after an hour and a half, I got 59 coins or $1.59. I was very surprised at how well this coil was so sensitive to tiny bits of metal. Usually, the larger the coil, the less sensitive to tiny objects. Not so with this coil. I ran it in jewelry mode and it picked up little rivets and tiny balls of aluminum foil. I found it difficult to size a couple objects, as I am so used to the profiling or imaging feature of its older brothers. The ID was right on for pull-tabs, tinfoil and the quarter, dimes and nickel all read in the coin icon region and bell-toned. This is a real bonus for our Canadian clad, as some other metal detectors have a hard time picking up our clad. If it Bell-Toned, it was a coin, always. Pinpointing was also so easy, just like the smaller coil. I would center a target on the coil, then move it backwards until the audio stopped. The target would always be directly under the center of the inner forward coil, or under the "
" This machine just loves Canadian dimes, which can be a challenge to some other machines. It readily gave a good strong bell-Tone. Although it wasn't under the 10 cent icon, it was under the coins in general.The silver gods were with me again today and allowed me to find a 1942 silver dime and a tiny .925 motorcycle charm. The size of the coil was also a bonus. One doesn't get so over-whelmed when looking at a large soccer field, thinking about the thousands of swings of the coil it will take to cover such a large area. And weight wise..........it's very light. I could easily swing it all day with little fatigue.
Gotta do a relic hunt next......
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