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Omega 8000 in mineralized soil?
- Thread starter 88junior
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In my mineralized ground the Omega (version 4) had the nasty habit of reporting a coin (say a dime at 5" +) as iron (with DD coil).-----I'm waiting to see what the new Omega 8500 brings to the table when it comes out.----Hope it is better with EMI & target I.D.-------------Del
88junior said:
since March of 2010. All of them were a Version 4, and all of them served me exceptionally well in all of the locations I've hunted throughout Oregon, Nevada and Utah that have a very high Ground Phase mineral indication, as well as a high iron mineral content/Fe3O4 read-out.
You left me wondering, however, just what you meant by: "using a DD coil of course" I didn't see any mention of using the Omega with any specific search coil, and on my Omega's I liked 2 Concentric and 2 DD coils, but settled on using one of each as the site demanded. I like the stock 5½X9¾ Concentric as well as the 5X10 DD, but I prefer the round 8" Concentric for more typical semi-open Coin Hunting sites, then switch to my 5" DD for any trashier condition. All of these search coils, Concentric or Double-D, easily Ground Balanced and also worked just fine in the higher mineralization places I seem to always end up.
With all my personal detectors I have a selection of the search coils I prefer for them out of those the manufacturer offers, and that includes both DD and Concentric. As a rule, there isn't any real major benefit, one way or the other, of which coil type is used in the challenging ground mineral conditions I encounter. It really is more a matter of control selection and using a proper and efficient sweep speed for the detector in-hand.
I have been modifying my personal detector arsenal, again, but for what I consider to be the final time. I am going to trim one more from what I have, and that void will be filled by ????
I had considered another Teknetics Omega 8000, going for the newest Version 6, but I am going to hold off right now. We are in one heck of a heat wave and it's going to linger through all of July, most of August, and maybe even into mid-September. The higher heat has sure curbed a lot of my detecting, so I'm going to see what 'new' offerings might be on the horizon.
But if you're really after something now, I would go with the Omega over the F70. At times I would work areas where EMI was a problem, but I just reduced the Sensitivity and went about hunting. Most of the time, however, as in at least 90% of the time, I ran the Omega's at maximum Sensitivity.
Monte
The Omega's have performed quite well so far as handling "bad ground" regardless of where I was hunting.88junior said:
You left me wondering, however, just what you meant by: "using a DD coil of course" I didn't see any mention of using the Omega with any specific search coil, and on my Omega's I liked 2 Concentric and 2 DD coils, but settled on using one of each as the site demanded. I like the stock 5½X9¾ Concentric as well as the 5X10 DD, but I prefer the round 8" Concentric for more typical semi-open Coin Hunting sites, then switch to my 5" DD for any trashier condition. All of these search coils, Concentric or Double-D, easily Ground Balanced and also worked just fine in the higher mineralization places I seem to always end up.
With all my personal detectors I have a selection of the search coils I prefer for them out of those the manufacturer offers, and that includes both DD and Concentric. As a rule, there isn't any real major benefit, one way or the other, of which coil type is used in the challenging ground mineral conditions I encounter. It really is more a matter of control selection and using a proper and efficient sweep speed for the detector in-hand.
What are you using now? What types of hunting do you like to do, and what hunt site conditions do you usually plan to deal with?88junior said:
I have been modifying my personal detector arsenal, again, but for what I consider to be the final time. I am going to trim one more from what I have, and that void will be filled by ????
I had considered another Teknetics Omega 8000, going for the newest Version 6, but I am going to hold off right now. We are in one heck of a heat wave and it's going to linger through all of July, most of August, and maybe even into mid-September. The higher heat has sure curbed a lot of my detecting, so I'm going to see what 'new' offerings might be on the horizon.
But if you're really after something now, I would go with the Omega over the F70. At times I would work areas where EMI was a problem, but I just reduced the Sensitivity and went about hunting. Most of the time, however, as in at least 90% of the time, I ran the Omega's at maximum Sensitivity.
Monte
88junior
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I use a Garrett AT-Gold the reason why I said a DD coil is because my soil consist of 3-4 bar dirt on my buddies F-75 dirt meter. He gets pretty good depth with his F-75 using a DD coil. So I figured Omega would work well in the same dirt using a DD coil too. I relic and coin hunt.