Perplexed

[mwaynebennett]

Several weeks ago I bought an Elite 2200 from Big 5 Sporting Goods. I think it is the same model as the Discovery 2200. I had buried a wheat penny, a US nickel and a Canadian silver dime each about 3-4" deep and 24 " apart from one another. My Elite detects all three as iron. That is pretty much useless. It is much like an office worker filing everything in the miscellaneous file cabinet. What is the use of the discriminating circuit if everything comes up "iron?"

I have noticed that the battery indicator is down one notch from the full mark but not yet to the "replace" indicator. Can low batteries cause these false readings?

Do any of you know why such a thing would be happening?

Thanks,

Mark

 

[teleman2525]

that dont sound good yes low batteries can make differances but my 505 can go all the way to warning lite and still work volume little lower but still ids you may have bad coil talk to dealer were bougt if you can

 

[mwaynebennett]

Thanks for the response. I changed the batteries and the problem persists. I have sent a query to the Bounty Hunter customer service folks. Maybe they can provide some insight.

Mark

 

[abcoin]

mwaynebennett, I did something similar with my lonestar this past spring. Like you, I buried some coins in the ground at depths ranging from 1" to 4". That was a few months ago, and now, only the coins buried at one or two inches give off steady ids. The other coins gave iron signals. I came up with two possible explanations for the iron ids on the deeper coins: one, the coins are still too recently buried to have adjusted to the ground mineralization in the soil, and thus will register incorrectly on the detector, or two, the ground mineralization where I live is just too much for the detector, and it will likely be awhile before I can detect these coins, if at all. Perhaps one of these scenarios applies to you as well. In any case, just wait a while (a few months) and try to detect the coins again. I'd imagine that over time, they become easier to detect. Also, next time you're out hunting, dig a few solid iron signals or ones that jump between iron and nickel 5c. In some cases, these turn out to be deep or recently lost coins. Hope this helps, abcoin.

 

[edjcox]

Dumb question but did you check your test bed before you buried anything to make sure it was clean??

 

[mwaynebennett]

The rest of the yard is totally barren of any signals, so I am 99.99% sure the area where the test targets are buried is clean of other clutter etc.

 

[GoGoGopher]

Slow your sweep speed down, and also, reduce your SENS a bit...newly buried targets do not need a lot of SENS to detect them...Mostly, the sweep speed is the culprit in most cases...

HH,