Jackpine Savage
Active member
Mick,
I don't know where your dollar coins hit To give you an idea of the ID numbers on the Edge, our new non-corroded zinc pennys hit 22, copper pennys hit from 26 to 28 depending on age/depth, silver dimes hit mostly 28. Now aluminum screwcaps vary quite a bit depending on if they are crushed or not and how the detector "sees" them. As has been stated the Edge likes round stuff and locks on well. The good part is that non-round items tend to bounce more so squashed screw caps bounce in the low to mid 20's and round non squashed ones again depending on orientation hit more around 25 but still give somewhat of a bouncing ID because of the 3 dimensional shape. I can't remember digging a screwcap that read in the copper silver range with the Edge.
To give you an idea of how fast the TID and audio work on the Edge and Coinstrike. small .22 short hulls will give bouncing readings in the 5-7 range even at depths of 4-5". Another example is the modern square tab people break off soda cans which consistently give a bouncing 12-13 reading. Some detectors wait until they have seen the peak target signal before giving a read so will either give a solid reading or in the case of closely co-located targets an improper read and in some cases even no indication at all of a possible good target down there! On one recent example I have used in multi-tone mode it will acutally give broken indistinct signals on certain irregularly shape non-ferrous targets. Now thats pathetic, what decent design engineer would think that was a good idea? (Perhaps pure coin hunters like that type of "profiling" feature?) The Edge and CoinStrike tell it like it is and to me thats much more useful in the field. I do not like detectors that try to make the decision for me!
I will say this for my type of hunting which includes hitting the nasty iron filled sites the Edge and Coinstrike pretty much stand alone when it comes to multi-tone machines that are fast enough and give you the "un-adulterated" info needed to pull out those co-located targets. There are darn few single tone beep-dig detectors that will compete or come close.
Tom
I don't know where your dollar coins hit To give you an idea of the ID numbers on the Edge, our new non-corroded zinc pennys hit 22, copper pennys hit from 26 to 28 depending on age/depth, silver dimes hit mostly 28. Now aluminum screwcaps vary quite a bit depending on if they are crushed or not and how the detector "sees" them. As has been stated the Edge likes round stuff and locks on well. The good part is that non-round items tend to bounce more so squashed screw caps bounce in the low to mid 20's and round non squashed ones again depending on orientation hit more around 25 but still give somewhat of a bouncing ID because of the 3 dimensional shape. I can't remember digging a screwcap that read in the copper silver range with the Edge.
To give you an idea of how fast the TID and audio work on the Edge and Coinstrike. small .22 short hulls will give bouncing readings in the 5-7 range even at depths of 4-5". Another example is the modern square tab people break off soda cans which consistently give a bouncing 12-13 reading. Some detectors wait until they have seen the peak target signal before giving a read so will either give a solid reading or in the case of closely co-located targets an improper read and in some cases even no indication at all of a possible good target down there! On one recent example I have used in multi-tone mode it will acutally give broken indistinct signals on certain irregularly shape non-ferrous targets. Now thats pathetic, what decent design engineer would think that was a good idea? (Perhaps pure coin hunters like that type of "profiling" feature?) The Edge and CoinStrike tell it like it is and to me thats much more useful in the field. I do not like detectors that try to make the decision for me!
I will say this for my type of hunting which includes hitting the nasty iron filled sites the Edge and Coinstrike pretty much stand alone when it comes to multi-tone machines that are fast enough and give you the "un-adulterated" info needed to pull out those co-located targets. There are darn few single tone beep-dig detectors that will compete or come close.
Tom