must read please!!

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

I took a dime and laid it on the grass flat, Then I put two nails (square nails) on top of it. There was a tiny part of the edge of the dime I could see. I left my Disc on 10 and tried tone 1 nothing but iron. Tone 2 nothing but iron tone three the same. Three + and it hit the dime and the iron but gave me a low iron reading then a 80-85.

I tried the Dp mood and it did the same, it hit the dime, tone 4 missed it. If I slowed down my coil swing on the two tones that worked I could hit the dime all but itself high reading. The DP mood gave me not as much of a pronounced sound more quite but the #3+ gave me a loud clean tone. Now this was done on grass in Calif Gold County so maybe in the ground a few inches or more it would be different. And a different tone would work.

The next thing I did was play with disc I had it set to ten which is I think no disc? I raised it to twenty and had the same results with the tones that worked. I then went into the foil range and the nails disappeared but it hit on the dime and showed high numbers. This doesn't mean I understand the T2 any better cause I had a hard time in the field. But I tried the same thing with my White's the 6000 xl pro and the small eliminator coil and I stared in the salt disc and nothing nail disc and still nothing it cold not find it.

I love the White's for coin hunting and ring hunting and it has found me some great finds at relic hunting but now I can see how targets are missed and how good the T2 is. Now I just have to learn to use it in a lot filled with trash and iron and learn to apply what I did in the experiment and see if it works the same!

I hope the new Fisher can do what I did and Paul did and I hope they make a new Coin machine that works like the T2 then I will buy it. When you are sold as a company you have to do somethint different and better then what is out there. This is the time for the T2 and the new fisher to move into the top two of campaines that make detectors all that is in there way and is in the way of most of the top compaines if Minelab and they are a great company. But there new machine has not made a big difference maybe if it a good machine you just try and make it a bit better I can understand that.

Thanks Lawrenzo/LCPM

 

[earthmansurfer]

Great test Lawrenzo and thanks for sharing the results. Man, you got me thinking. I thought mode 2+ was the iron mode, did you test that mode cause you said mode 3+ hit but there is a 2+ mode and a 3b mode, no 3+ mode

To be honest I don't expect a detector to give a signal on a dime covered by two nails. Absolutely amazing. I'd like to see others comment on mode 3b because I often use it to only check for bottle caps, I don't exclusively hunt in it. It sort of doesn't make sense that mode 3b would hit it but not 3, I'd expect the opposite since it has a tighter tolerance. I have tried mode 2+ with some success.

I think I need to run a similar test when I have some time.

EMS