Just a observation:rolleyes:

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Found myself with some extra time on my hands, so I decided to go to my wife's jewelry box and borrow 40 of her rings. I conducted a simply air test on her rings with my CTX 3030. The rings were 10kt, 14kt, 18kt, Platinum and costume rings. I found that all the rings came in either on the 12 or 13 ferrous line. Far to much work to provide what each and every ring came in on specifically, just providing the overall range as follows:

12.02 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.09 12.10 12.12 12.15 12.19 12.20 12.23 12.25 12.29 12.30 12.36 12.37 12.40 12.41 13.46 13.47 13.49

I check each ring with 2 different programs, a Gold and Ground-Coin program.

Gold Program:
Response-Normal
Recovery-Deep
Target Separation-Low Trash
Pinpoint-Normal

Ground-Coin
Response-Normal
Recovery-Deep
Target Separation-Ground-Coin
Pinpoint-Normal

I found that the response/reading of each ring was in most cases pretty much the same for both programs. I also checked a few coins and they also came in pretty much the same with each program. Just my observation. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

 

[trojdor]

tbw,

Thanks for taking the time to experiment and post the results...

The takeaway from this, shouldn't be the exact numbers, but the unfortunate fact of life that gold can appear anywhere along the conductive range.

If you take away the nickel range and the 40s as numbers you would have dug anyway, you're left with about half the numbers showing in the foil range.

So again, an unfortunate fact of life is, that if you're looking for gold rings, you're also looking for foil, can slaw, and aluminum junk as well.

Thanks again

mike

 

[GKMan]

Thanks tbw.... If you want to dig gold, you have to be willing to make lots and lots of retrievals. Interesting, the most beautiful gold ring I ever found came in at 12:18 . So whenever I see that on my screen I dig it.

 

[amberjack]

isn't it fun looking for gold. I don't use the ctx for gold recovery to big lighter machines out there for that, but I do pick a number that's not a known coin or pulltab and dig that number on that hunt number from 32 down.

AJ