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NASA Tom "The Painful Truth" [masking-a dig; 3rd Seminole-Indian War site excavation]
- Thread starter vlad
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I bought one of his CD's as several years ago. Very informative. He makes a statement, then backs it up with reliable data/examples, with real scientific principals, proven in the field. The man shows no bias towards any manufactured equipment that he uses. He has a huge following. His work that he put into proving how many targets we miss from masking is simply amazing!
vlad
Well-known member
but conducted one-on-one, and I'm sure you come away much more knowlegable and prepared.
I suspect his research is often far beyond what many detector engineers know, outside the lab, in the real world. The thing he seems to encounter so often-besides iron,
is depth limitations of the VLF motion circuit-at some point a conductive target reads iron, or disappears. Coins do get deeper one way or another, whether by ground action or fill dirt, which is the bane of many sites. Unless you go into a non motion ground balance mode, or use a P.I., [here comes the iron again, in SPADES] you run into a hard limit. (Give me the ATX using the no motion mode with full depth iron i.d., I'll be as happy as Mel Fisher when he found the Atocha!
)
(But I know George Payne was a user-he made a one only auto ground balance for {his} Tek Mk-1. He said it would add over $100 cost-and would hurt sales so it was not produced, but I'd dearly love to have that detector. )
Tom and Reg Sniff have a lot in common scientifically and user wise-the improvements Reg has come up with on the TDI are phenomenal; too bad no one is listening.
I suspect his research is often far beyond what many detector engineers know, outside the lab, in the real world. The thing he seems to encounter so often-besides iron,
is depth limitations of the VLF motion circuit-at some point a conductive target reads iron, or disappears. Coins do get deeper one way or another, whether by ground action or fill dirt, which is the bane of many sites. Unless you go into a non motion ground balance mode, or use a P.I., [here comes the iron again, in SPADES] you run into a hard limit. (Give me the ATX using the no motion mode with full depth iron i.d., I'll be as happy as Mel Fisher when he found the Atocha!
)(But I know George Payne was a user-he made a one only auto ground balance for {his} Tek Mk-1. He said it would add over $100 cost-and would hurt sales so it was not produced, but I'd dearly love to have that detector. )
Tom and Reg Sniff have a lot in common scientifically and user wise-the improvements Reg has come up with on the TDI are phenomenal; too bad no one is listening.