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Garrett is the house that innovation built and true to this heritage they have outdone themselves with the introduction of the Ace 250 - an alleged entry level machine that looks like and performs like a high dollar machine and has taken the hobby by storm with all of us oldtimers parking our big bucks machines and heading out the door with the lowly little 250.
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GARRETT'S GRAPHIC TARGET ID TECHNOLOGY
FEATURES & CONTROLS
POWER BUTTON - Turns the detector on and off, and reboots the 250 if problems arise.
DISCRIMINATION BUTTON - Use this to change your discrimination to suit your desires.
ELIMINATION BUTTON- Use this to modify your discrimination pattern or to notch out any unwanted target you encounter.
PINPOINT BUTTON - Use to locate the exact position of your target ( and detune the coil ) while watching the upper scale on the display for the signal strength. When the segments on the scale are lined up all the way across from left to right the target is centered.
MODES - The 250 is blessed with five hunting modes easily accessed via a toggle switch - Coins, Jewelry, Custom, Relics, All Metal. In the custom mode you can tailor your settings for your every desire, even to locating one specific type of target while rejecting all others, and all your settings will be saved when turning the machine off and back on.
TARGET ID LEGEND - Depicts icons of coins, metals, and trash items, you will encounter.
UPPER DISPLAY SCALE - This is where the target ID cursor is located and depicts 12 graphical segments for more precise discrimination and target ID.
LOWER DISPLAY SCALE - This is the notch discrimination scale that indicates the discrimination pattern where the detector will or will not produce an audible signal when a target is encountered.
COIN DEPTH - Consists of four depth indicators - 2-4-6-8+ inches.
SENSITIVITY - Via a toggle button and consists of eight sensitivity selections.
BATTERY INDICATOR - An LCD display that constantly monitors and displays battery condition.
TONE ID - The 250 produces three distinct audible tones ( low, medium, high or Belltone ) based on a target's conductivity.
HEADPHONE JACK - Quarter-inch jack on the reverse side of control housing.
The 250 is light as a feather, well balanced, and a ball to use. It is an ultra-sensitive detector that surprises all who pick it up and all of us wonder how Garret can pack so much power and performance into an inexpensive machine - but they really pulled it off.
The 6x9 really tough Proformance coil is the heart of this little machine and is so sensitive you will be setting your sensitivity at 50% most of the time. This coil handles just about everything quite well. Exact pinpointing with this coil is best performed by centering the target under the center tip of the inside oval on the coil by scanning side to side until the strongest signal is heard then dragging the coil straight back until the instant the signal stops and the segmants on the signal strength indicator are all lined up.
The 250 is extremely user friendly with a top notch set of controls, such as toggle buttons for adjustable controls instead of tactile pads. The target response and recovery is unreal for a machine of this price and it's nearly impossible to swing this detector fast enough to miss a target.. The ID and depth are right on and pinpointing is absolutely deadly. The depth has to be experienced to be believed. I have personally pulled dimes at eight inches plus with a strong signal and quarters at nine inches with power left over. One thing I did discover right off the bat, this little Yeller Feller will detect deeper than it can pinpoint but that presents no problem. You just have to resort to the old fashioned way of pinpointing.
Users who do a lot of saltwater beach hunting have been bowled over by the performance of this little "demon" in that area, with it out performing more expensive machines. I have yet to get down to the sea shore to check it out but am planning to.
It is also extremely sensitive to tiny objects and to gold. I air tested it on some small gold nuggets and was amazed at the depth of detection on nuggets as small as one-eight inch in diameter. Now how it would perform in a nugget environment is yet another thing to discover, but from what I've heard of its performance around saltwater nothing will surprise me.
Garrett has really raised the bar for its competition with the introduction of the Ace 250 and its less endowed sibling the 150 and if this is a precursor of things to come I can't wait. I and others have gone over areas that have been hunted to death with more exensive machines and found goodies we and others had missed.
The sales of this machine have been phenomenal with many dealers sold out. And a new 4.5 inch "Sniper" coil for the Ace series will be released soon and should make this little " Yeller Feller" one hot trash and playground machine. And I'm hoping a 10-12 incher might be on the way to give this little sizzler some real depth.
So if you're looking for a detector that is pure fun to use to satisfy your needs without hocking the farm to buy it then you need look no further than the Ace 150/250 all wrapped up in a neat little inexpensive yellow package for under the bargain price of $200.
Bill
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GARRETT'S GRAPHIC TARGET ID TECHNOLOGY
FEATURES & CONTROLS
POWER BUTTON - Turns the detector on and off, and reboots the 250 if problems arise.
DISCRIMINATION BUTTON - Use this to change your discrimination to suit your desires.
ELIMINATION BUTTON- Use this to modify your discrimination pattern or to notch out any unwanted target you encounter.
PINPOINT BUTTON - Use to locate the exact position of your target ( and detune the coil ) while watching the upper scale on the display for the signal strength. When the segments on the scale are lined up all the way across from left to right the target is centered.
MODES - The 250 is blessed with five hunting modes easily accessed via a toggle switch - Coins, Jewelry, Custom, Relics, All Metal. In the custom mode you can tailor your settings for your every desire, even to locating one specific type of target while rejecting all others, and all your settings will be saved when turning the machine off and back on.
TARGET ID LEGEND - Depicts icons of coins, metals, and trash items, you will encounter.
UPPER DISPLAY SCALE - This is where the target ID cursor is located and depicts 12 graphical segments for more precise discrimination and target ID.
LOWER DISPLAY SCALE - This is the notch discrimination scale that indicates the discrimination pattern where the detector will or will not produce an audible signal when a target is encountered.
COIN DEPTH - Consists of four depth indicators - 2-4-6-8+ inches.
SENSITIVITY - Via a toggle button and consists of eight sensitivity selections.
BATTERY INDICATOR - An LCD display that constantly monitors and displays battery condition.
TONE ID - The 250 produces three distinct audible tones ( low, medium, high or Belltone ) based on a target's conductivity.
HEADPHONE JACK - Quarter-inch jack on the reverse side of control housing.
The 250 is light as a feather, well balanced, and a ball to use. It is an ultra-sensitive detector that surprises all who pick it up and all of us wonder how Garret can pack so much power and performance into an inexpensive machine - but they really pulled it off.
The 6x9 really tough Proformance coil is the heart of this little machine and is so sensitive you will be setting your sensitivity at 50% most of the time. This coil handles just about everything quite well. Exact pinpointing with this coil is best performed by centering the target under the center tip of the inside oval on the coil by scanning side to side until the strongest signal is heard then dragging the coil straight back until the instant the signal stops and the segmants on the signal strength indicator are all lined up.
The 250 is extremely user friendly with a top notch set of controls, such as toggle buttons for adjustable controls instead of tactile pads. The target response and recovery is unreal for a machine of this price and it's nearly impossible to swing this detector fast enough to miss a target.. The ID and depth are right on and pinpointing is absolutely deadly. The depth has to be experienced to be believed. I have personally pulled dimes at eight inches plus with a strong signal and quarters at nine inches with power left over. One thing I did discover right off the bat, this little Yeller Feller will detect deeper than it can pinpoint but that presents no problem. You just have to resort to the old fashioned way of pinpointing.
Users who do a lot of saltwater beach hunting have been bowled over by the performance of this little "demon" in that area, with it out performing more expensive machines. I have yet to get down to the sea shore to check it out but am planning to.
It is also extremely sensitive to tiny objects and to gold. I air tested it on some small gold nuggets and was amazed at the depth of detection on nuggets as small as one-eight inch in diameter. Now how it would perform in a nugget environment is yet another thing to discover, but from what I've heard of its performance around saltwater nothing will surprise me.
Garrett has really raised the bar for its competition with the introduction of the Ace 250 and its less endowed sibling the 150 and if this is a precursor of things to come I can't wait. I and others have gone over areas that have been hunted to death with more exensive machines and found goodies we and others had missed.
The sales of this machine have been phenomenal with many dealers sold out. And a new 4.5 inch "Sniper" coil for the Ace series will be released soon and should make this little " Yeller Feller" one hot trash and playground machine. And I'm hoping a 10-12 incher might be on the way to give this little sizzler some real depth.
So if you're looking for a detector that is pure fun to use to satisfy your needs without hocking the farm to buy it then you need look no further than the Ace 150/250 all wrapped up in a neat little inexpensive yellow package for under the bargain price of $200.
Bill