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Hello all, got back from atlantic city yesterday evening , the week flew by, my wife faired good on the slots, I lost my butt as usual, but we had fun. Well I got a little tecting in but was very disappointed to see the piping /dredging sand out of the ocean redoing the beach. All the things that were there before are now under a couple feet of new sand. Anyway decided to give it a shot. First day picked up 30 cents. One 1940 nickel. I ran relic mode gain on 10, ground set to salt disc on 2 trigger in the center and an audible threshold. Second morning out ,same settings, Got a quiet beep, vdi 80-85. Dug and dug, nothing ! Swept the hole again ,got the same signal, dug some more, finally got to probing around with the automax and located it, a quarter, I stayed in an area 4 ft. square for an hour and dug 8 quarters 1 nickel and 6 pennies and a lighter. I did not have a tapeline but do know on several of them quarters I had the hole probe in the ground before getting the quarters. The deepest one came on a beep that would only repeat from one direction, after digging down a foot I started pulling the sand out by hand.finally over elbow deep in the sand I pulled out a hand full and had the quarter. I stuck my automax down into the hole and the coin was a little deeper that the probe is long. Well I am as well as a lot of you are, skeptical about these big super deep coils. Guys I got home and measured the automax. It is a little over 18 inches. I dug many fired rifle leads,(copper coated)I also hit several items that I dug and deep as I could reach down and couldn't get the target. I found ground balancing to be a little touchy but found a method that worked well and let me run a gain of 10 with a smooth threshold to the waters edge. When I fist hit the wet sand My first thought was forget this !! Noise chirping and static beyond belief. Bobing the coil up and down made it worse. I turned the machine off held the coil up about waist high and turned it back on. Then slowly lowered the coil, about a foot from the sand I got a solid ,constant loud tone then continued lowering the coil to within an inch of the sand and it got quiet, and the threshold was smooth, I then proceeded with a slow sweep and it remained smooth, found one bottle cap about 8-9 inches down in the wet mucky sand. From a couple previuos trips to the beach with the stock coil I was unable to look in the wet sand with the stock coil and the deepest coins I got were under a foot. From my exp. the 14 inch coil blows the stock away. While diggin in the area where I did hit a patch of deep quarters I had a guy come up and start talking who was also detecting with a DFX and the stock coil and told me he had not found the first coin, I had just got a beep showing as a quarter, out of curiousity I got him to sweep the spot , the dfx showed nothing, well I reswept and pin pointed and from a hole nearly as deep as the probe came another quarter, he shook his head and got real curious about this big coil I had. He said he had never dug any thing near that deep. On another deep hit , I got a good beep in relic mode and just to check I switched to coin mode and swept the spot, no beep at all, only got a slight change in threshold. Switched back to relic mode and got the beep again, well over a foot down came another quarter. So my result are like this, Relic mode is more sensitive, The 14 inch coil is smooth even in the sand and Kellyco's 15 -20 inch deep coins with the excelerator coil aint a sales pitch.I did not find as much as I hoped for but to say the least I never dreamed this coil would get the depth that it did. It takes a little trial and error experimenting to get a smooth threshold but when you do running a gain of 10 all's I can say is your gonna wish you had a big shovel. MXT + 14"coil = MAX DEPTH !!!!! MXT <img src="/metal/html/super.gif" border=0 width=26 height=28 alt=":super">
HH, Ray
HH, Ray