My garden

[budsmith]

I posted tis message before but on an old post, so I am bringing it back up here on a new post..
Since the weather has ben sunny here (in Missouri) I got a chance to get out in the test garden...
I have penny, nickel, dime and quarter at 3, 6, 9, and 12 inches..The quattro picked up the 3,and the 6 inchers okay, the 9 incher was kinda broken but knew something was there...I couldnt raise a signal on the 12 incher even in all metal...Also on the 9 incher my pinpoint sounds were chattering (not a solid tone) do not know why..any thoughts? Bud

 

[beachguy777]

How ya doin' Bud? My first question would be: How long has those coins been buried? From everything I've read in the past and even my own experience, the longer it's been buried you're almost assured of going greater on depth. I'm not sure how much the soil affects it, but I've read that in a Charles Garret book, (who's been a detector designer for many years), and in my own experience: I buried a quarter at the beach last week about 10 to 12, inches, and couldn't get a reading. But I got it at about 8 inches. I know for a fact that the surface area of the target is vitally important, in other words the greater the surface area, the deeper you can read it. The other aspect is on this (how long has it been buried thing). Apparently after it's been buried for quite a while, there starts to be kind of an aura seeping out from around the target. I don't know if it's molecules, or what, but I know for a fact that I dug a penny at the beach one time in wet sand at about a foot deep. I've dug many aluminum cans at a foot or more deep, and that would attribute to the big surface area it has. I read a post about the Quatro on another web site one time where a guy said that if the Pinpoint mode even moved a "hairs breath" as he put it, he believed something was down there, so you might want to mess around with that idea for a while. Don't let that test garden depth factor scare you too much. Once you've dug some old coins that have been buried for years, you'll see how deep the Quatro can really go, but don't get me wrong, the test garden is a wonderful thing, also to see how targets buried close to each other react on the detector. Take care, and keep detecting.

 

[budsmith]

My test garden is about a year old...What does a buried alluminum can at 12 inches read out as, and can you identify it by raising up the coil and see how strong the reading still is??...I would think a coin sized object would not show up when lifting the coil a litle bit.Bud

 

[beachguy777]

Yea Bud. I think the aluminum can is in the 35 or 36 range, but I can't remember for sure, but it's a pretty high reading. The other thing to note here, is a lot of times a bigger object like the can can be kind of a "give away" signal because as you scan it from different angles, it appears much longer than just a coin sized object. That can help you make a little better decision on whether to dig or not. I'm not sure about raising the coil up but if you get that buzzing sound, I'd deffinitly raise the coil up a few inches and re scan it and see what it says. Remember too, that the depth setting on the Quatro, is designed, and programed to read "coin-sized" objects, so a can can throw off the depth part of it because of it's big size, but you still should get a very strong numeric and audio reading on any can you encounter, I believe. Marc.

 

[Mirage]

I have had my garden for about a year. I have a silver Quarter buried at 10". A silver dime at 6 & 7 inches and such. I had a Quattro now an Explorer. The Quattro did not have trouble hitting the 10" Quarter. The 7" dime was a little iffy but since I knew it was there I could get it to "hit". Had more trouble with the Explorer hitting those coins than with the Quattro.

Bob

 

[beachguy777]

Boy, that's a REVOLATION, there Mirage. Are you saying that the Quatro went deeper than the Explorer did? Whewwwwww. That's what I think I heard Mike from VA saying about detecting on the beach with the Quatro. I know, also, that the Explorer, "kicks a__., over the Quatro as far as having two numeric redouts, but that's nice to know that there's "no apparent problem", with the depth on the Quatro. Marc.