Problem with the SE for Canadian coins.

[jim cluster]

I'm wondering if newer Canadian coins are a problem with the SE, it picks up pennies no problem. But it nulls out on the 5-10-25-$1, in pinpoint they come in as 31-31. The pennies come in as 3-28 or 4-28 as would a US dime. Is there a fix, or work around for this problem?

 

[digitrich]

just teasing, if that is where those specific coins hit on the digital, then it is not possible to make them come up with different numbers or to appear in a different area of the smart find screen. If a Canadian Penny's 4-28, than it's going to hit at 4-28 no matter what you do, there is no way of changing that because that is the ferrous content and conductive rating of that particular target. If you are nulling that target out, make sure you are not discriminating (blacking out) that particular area of the iron mask or smart find screens. hope that helps.

 

[jim cluster]

I would post on the forum up north here, but they know the answer, don't go with the SE. I thought that the users here would have the answer, since the this forum seems to have most of the solutions to problems that come up with the SE. I shall try to learn the accept-reject programs, oh well if I loose out on clad, I'll dig for the oldies!!!!

 

[Dan-Pa.]

With any ID unit Canadian coins just come in different and time to do some airtesting to see where they come in..Perhaps one of our Canadian friends may know where a site is for Canadian coins as there are several for U.S. coins.. Indeed a problem for our Canadian neighbors and with time in the field and doing a lot of digging you should know just about where the target crosshair and digital number comes in for your specific coins as Canadian coins have different mettalic content..

 

[jim cluster]

i tried the high ferrous coin mode today at the same site, and blew something in the palm of the digging paw. It seems that in that mode it picks up too much in iron mode for the site I was in, so back to the drawing board.

 

[dewcon4414]

You might a disc pattern such as the standard coin program then us the LEARN to accept those coins.

 

[BlackX]

Jim, I wondered if the coins you were talking about had iron content but, from looking at the composition, at least as listed here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Canadian_dollar -- they should not be ringing in at 31, 31. If they are, something is seriously wrong or else you have iron/steel really close to where you're testing them. Looks like your loonie should ring in a little higher an American nickel (pulltab!) and your $5 somewhere below pennies, if I read that right. Yes, your pennies come in at 3-28. Same as American pre '82 pennies. I find them with some regularity. A U.S. clad (copper) dime tends to bounce around a litle higher for me than pennies usually do but not much. I'm finding the SE loves dimes for some reason though I'm still iffy at times in telling the difference from copper pennies. I'd guess I'm up to be able to tell the difference about 90% of the time, depending on the depth.

 

[jim cluster]

I thought the high ferrous coin would work yesterday, I agree with the iron in the area, nails in old wood was the fill at the park. I try to fine tune it again later today, at another park!

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Certainly in most case way off similiar U.S. coins as I understand some do have some iron content. I would think if you surf the web should come up with a Canadian version of Explorer forums which should help you out greatly...

 

[JeffNS]

Not sure if anybody in Canada using the Explorer series of detectors has resolved this issue yet or not. I just got my Explorer II a couple of weeks ago and went on my first hunt this past weekend. I'm not particularly into hunting for modern coinage but it does help to pay for batteries and coffee. In any case, my two hunting partners managed to score in excess of 200 coins each both totalling over $30.00 bucks. I on the other hand only managed 72 coins totalling $2.95. Needless to say I wasn't impressed. I had been using the default settings. The very next morning I decided to play with the Learn function and gathered an assortment of Canadian clad coinage and created a custom pattern. No wonder I wasn't finding them before. Canadian quarters, dimes and loonies (dollar coins) don't register or behave at all like their US counterparts and bounce from far right to far left but in a fairly level horizontal plane. When I went out to test my new patter I managed to dig over $10.00 of Cdn. clad in under an hour. I need to clean up the pattern a bit as my first pattern is somewhat "smeared" but there's no doubt that once done the Explorer will do a very good job with Cdn. clad if that's what you're after.

 

[teleman2525]

i hunt in northern vt close to canadian border sometimes even in eye sight that close find lots of candian coins with my se loonies elk quaters old large pennys even 1800,3 bank tokens fish scales 1880 and 1890 my oldest new pennies nickles dimes no trouble hearing them but i never hunt with stock patterns i use mostly am ferrous most of the time or im22 playing back and forth conductive to ferrous sounds don,t use numbers mostly sound and smart screen dimes and quaters mostly stay high right on screen as do pennys only little lower nickles bevertails low bottom mid screen i always use as little discrimination as i can get away with just like to here it all were ever i can hope i helped you some

 

[JeffNS]

i hunt in northern vt close to canadian border sometimes even in eye sight that close find lots of candian coins with my se loonies elk quaters old large pennys even 1800,3 bank tokens fish scales 1880 and 1890 my oldest new pennies nickles dimes no trouble hearing them but i never hunt with stock patterns i use mostly am ferrous most of the time or im22 playing back and forth conductive to ferrous sounds don,t use numbers mostly sound and smart screen dimes and quaters mostly stay high right on screen as do pennys only little lower nickles bevertails low bottom mid screen i always use as little discrimination as i can get away with just like to here it all were ever i can hope i helped you some

I'm intrigued by you stating that Cdn. dimes and quarters mostly stay high right on the screen as do pennies...unless you're referring to pre 1968 dimes and quarters which are silver and should ID high right. If however you're referring to post 1967 dimes and quarters then I'd have to see it to believe it. Take say a 1975 quarter...regardless of settings...AM wide open screen and pass it over your coil....they hit well below penny and bounce all the way over to far left almost to the very edge. If you create a custom pattern for them you'll see that it's next to impossible to create a pattern that isn't somewhat "smeared" as the Explorer is trying to figure out what in the heck just happened to it. Dimes on the other hand also bounce but they also create a rather unique drum/percussive effect. Large cents, fish scales etc. all fall in the right upper area to a large degree although large cents can appear much lower and can be somewhat scratchy sounding depending how they've weathered their underground resting places and whether or not any chemical fertilizers have been used in the area. In a nutshell, the only non-silver Cdn coins that id in any kind of stable manner are the pennies....nickels somewhat depending on mint year as their composition varies greatly.