amcjavelin
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found a very nice ID edge what could one expect from it?
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ok anybody whats the opinion on fisher ID Edge?
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amcjavelin
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well took the plunge and bought the edge!
Keith Southern
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Sort of come in at the end of the Los Banos Fisher line up before the buy out...They are very good at eeking out good target's in trashy environ's...They share some of the coinstrike programming but much more simplified...
I thought it was one of the Los Banos best offering's in a I.D. detector...
And it has a real affinity for low conductor's and hit's hard on coin's too..
With the 10 inch coil it is as deep as any machine I ever ran in disc mode.....Coil for coil wise....
stock coil good all rounder...
5.75 coil donut shaped a must have....
Now if you can find extra coils the coinstrike coils work just clip the ground wire off inside the connector of the coil and your good to go...and for some reason the coil will still owrk on the strike like that just can be used on a edge without the clip of the lug...
It has 4 tones low for iron...low medium ,,medium and high...
any number thats's negative is iron on the I.d but not in real world ... co-located targts in nails will pull ever so slightly into the negative range of about -5 or so...So if you are working a nail strewn area and get a medium low and low tone flop back and forth but it stays close to zero you better check it out...
It also has a all metal mode with some threshold bleed in at max sens...and it still visually I.D.'s in all metal!!!
Hip mountable for wading....
Did I mention it's deep???
Mine pulled this out of a house site with the 6 inch coil...So this machine will always have the utmost respect from me...
Keith Southern
I thought it was one of the Los Banos best offering's in a I.D. detector...
And it has a real affinity for low conductor's and hit's hard on coin's too..
With the 10 inch coil it is as deep as any machine I ever ran in disc mode.....Coil for coil wise....
stock coil good all rounder...
5.75 coil donut shaped a must have....
Now if you can find extra coils the coinstrike coils work just clip the ground wire off inside the connector of the coil and your good to go...and for some reason the coil will still owrk on the strike like that just can be used on a edge without the clip of the lug...
It has 4 tones low for iron...low medium ,,medium and high...
any number thats's negative is iron on the I.d but not in real world ... co-located targts in nails will pull ever so slightly into the negative range of about -5 or so...So if you are working a nail strewn area and get a medium low and low tone flop back and forth but it stays close to zero you better check it out...
It also has a all metal mode with some threshold bleed in at max sens...and it still visually I.D.'s in all metal!!!
Hip mountable for wading....
Did I mention it's deep???
Mine pulled this out of a house site with the 6 inch coil...So this machine will always have the utmost respect from me...
Keith Southern
amcjavelin
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thats awesome to hear!good when i looked at it and the frequency of 6.25khz and read a few reviews i think i done good! i just like these older fisher detctors
Detectorguru
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Mine excelled at beeping on hot rocks and iding deep iron with a high tone. 
I've had my Edge for almost a year. Didn't start using it till last month. It is fast and goes plenty deep. I really like the screen info. It doesn't have icons of pulltabs, bottlecaps, coins, etc. But it has 36 numbers, nothing more. I'm learning having numbers is better than icons. Why? Because numbers can't lie like icons do. Various types of buried targets can bring up the same number, you have to use your memory to recall the various targets that fall in that particular number range. And you can search by tone alone, the 4 tones work with certain groups of numbers. Damn good detector.
amcjavelin
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well i took mine to a spot and run it old coin mode and i noticed that 36 and a high tone would come up quite a bit but they wern't repeatable signals though but i dug stuff i never got before out of there before so and i noticed i had to work slower than i usually do because of recovery seemed a little slower than my others but the audio was awesome at telling how deep something was for sure!
Keith Southern
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not to much good stuff will hit 36 except a silver dollar but it is a unmistakable hit....now put the 6 inch coil on for working trashy areas it's plenty deep and no more 36's....
I never really used the Edge for pure open wood's deep target hunting...It does not nhave the scan area for walking the wood's...It's not ver hot off the sides of the coil..It goes deep but lots's of overlap required for that......it really shines in working trash with the 6 inch....
Get one of those coil's and I think you will be surprised what you leave behind with the 1270 in those type environ's
Keith
I never really used the Edge for pure open wood's deep target hunting...It does not nhave the scan area for walking the wood's...It's not ver hot off the sides of the coil..It goes deep but lots's of overlap required for that......it really shines in working trash with the 6 inch....
Get one of those coil's and I think you will be surprised what you leave behind with the 1270 in those type environ's
Keith
AMC, use cP mode and don't use any notches, you will hear everything with a repeatable signal. The screen ID numbers will tell you everything you need to know. The high tone will alert you to coins with out looking at screen. When I notch out targets on my Tesoro or the Edge, the notched out target will still give a signal with some sweeps and it gets a little confusing. It seems to me that notched out targets will still give a signal with about 25% of the sweeps.
amcjavelin
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well thanks for the info guys i apreciate for sure!
amcjavelin
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i've decided i'm more at home with the 1270 so the edge is up for grabs if anybody is interested?
Dave, I air test my detectors in my basement a lot, don't get the exact same results every time, sometimes have EMI problem. Today, no EMI, here is ID Edge results. Sens @9. 8" coil: Merc dime 9" with 80% diggable high tone. Other times I get max 8" on the dime with same tones, but never less than 8". Silver quarter 10" with diggable tones, other times 1/2" less. Also have the 10.5" coil made for the Edge, goes up to 1" deeper on the dime and quarter in air, but where it really shines is you don't need such a tight sweep overlap, maybe because the inner coil is oval shaped and it scans a larger area down deep. Another ID Edge user said his 10.5" coil doesn't give all those high tones on deep rusty nails, he thinks because it gets a better reading on deep nails than the 8" coil does. I used the 10.5" just 4 times so far and have not dug a nail yet, but maybe there were no nails where I used it. The 10.5" stays on the detector, I like it even tho it is heavier than the 8". I recently bought the 10.5" from Detector Electronics in Mass., phone No. is 508-460-6244, $122 shipped. Yesterday I was searching along the river where it floods every year, stuff is very deep there. Dug no old coins, but dug a 22 cal lead bullet at 5"- 6". I know if I pass the coil over old silver I will hear it.