No signal on a gold chain

[Jeff of NH]

I haven't had my SE long enough to know it and I understand Explorers have a high learning curve but why can I pick up a gold ring but absolutely nothing on a gold chain? What am I doing wrong?

 

[ED-NH]

Any type of chain is almost impossible to get a signal from. It has to do with the way that the field goes around the links.

 

[Steve(MS)]

Ed's got it right. A large chain should give a signal especially one wadded up. The thin ones are hard to pick up because the detector is seeing the individual links instead of the whole. It is easier to pick up a clasp of something attached to the chain. Even if you could pickup a particular chain, it is hard to get much depth when trying to find chains.

 

[mattockman]

Jeff....try picking up a cut gold ring on the detector...I found one in my apt. when I moved in and it was white gold but could not get anything on detector....not untill someone here told me to press the ring together to get a reading.....poof....when I pressed the ends together I got a reading on Explorer XS....thats weird.....its got something to do with the eddys... what ever that means....and yes all the detector sees is like just one link and not them all.........so if its thin chain...zoinks......I have found a few but it was because it had a good clasp or pendant on it....just wanted to share.....I am still a bit confused myself.....

 

[Jeff of NH]

Thanks for all the imput, your right about the small, fine chains. A friend found a fair sized one and he said that it was just luck he got a faint hit on it. It pays to dig everything sometimes. Jeff