Question on Golden umax notching

[Bill_S]

Is it possible to set the discrimination to find everything from copper pennies and up and then set a real narrow notch for nickels only? Can the notch be set as narrow as you want? I want to try and dig mostly nickel signals without digging a lot of junk too. I know there are some things such as the little aluminum pencil tops and some tabs that cant be avoided but I want to get the notch as small as possible. I did not notice a pinpoint button on the face of the detector either. Does it have one? Can someone explain how the notch works. Thanks.....

 

[fwcrawford]

Bill,
Go to the Tesoro website and download the manual for the golden detector.]
It should have a very good explanation on the use of the notch feature.
I don't believe this detector has a pinpoint button on it, but should not be a problem pinpointing by Xing the target.
Hope this helps,
Felix

 

[slingshot]

Is it possible to set the discrimination to find everything from copper pennies and up and then set a real narrow notch for nickels only? Can the notch be set as narrow as you want? I want to try and dig mostly nickel signals without digging a lot of junk too. I know there are some things such as the little aluminum pencil tops and some tabs that cant be avoided but I want to get the notch as small as possible. I did not notice a pinpoint button on the face of the detector either. Does it have one? Can someone explain how the notch works. Thanks.....

Yes, it's possible to take the nickel, wave it and move the notch control to where it is just clearly accepted. The width control will control the outer limits, such as zinc pennies, etc. I just spent a full 3 days experimenting with my Royal Sabre and doing this, The downside? After rechecking the area, some nickels were missed. Pencil erasers? Forget it. Some of them are electronically the same as nickels. I DID enjoy this in a high trash area, but the trade-off in trash vs. good targets wasn't worth the effort. I will, however use it again in some impossible areas.

 

[Mike Hillis]

The upper limit of the notch is defined by the notch switch (narrow/wide). The Notch width dial only adjusts the lower limit.

HH

Mike

 

[slingshot]

The upper limit of the notch is defined by the notch switch (narrow/wide). The Notch width dial only adjusts the lower limit.

HH

Mike

Yeah. Thanks Mike. The width is preset on the Royal and has to be factory changed. I can sort of move the window around with the Royal and set it to where the nickel blanks out, then tweak it backwards to just accept it. Really cool. The only drawback (?) is the screwcaps are left in-but this means more coins.The other neat thing is that the lower limits can be moved from small foil to nickel. But I'm afraid the pencil eraser and the tab flip are still there.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

All have internal notch trimmers to make notches wider or narrower but would leave that up to the Tesoro Tech's...Unfortunately many junk articles along with nice gold rings can be lost using the notch so notches have plus and minus features...

 

[Furious T]

Yes. I haven't had a Golden U max for about 5 years now, but I remember on one occasion I decided that a certain location had to contain a small gold ring... I set the notch and for the next hour or so only recovered 5c (Aus., but much the same as your nickel) coins, about 20 of them..no gold ring though... I was sad to trade in the Golden, but I couldn't afford to keep all my detectors and buy a new one (DeLeon). The notch system on the Golden is great. Best of Luck. Sapper.

 

[amcjavelin]

well i don't even bother to notch anything out being multi toned i tried the notch on nickels vs aluminum pull tabs and got the nickel to pull through a little better than aluminum tab but the signal still broke up a bit so for what it's worth i don't bother filter anything just solid tones sometimes i admit in a trashy area i have to work it slow so i can pick up the good signals from the low tones foil messes with me bad i have to admit

 

[Jeff Beecham]

Hi Bill... Yes... You can do what you described to a certain degree... You can set the notch switch to wide
which will reject out the zinc pennies, you will then take a common round tab and a nickel and wave them in
below the coil... While moving the notch width window until the the round tab just breaks up and the nickel
has a better more clearer tone... You can tell the difference from the breaking up sound on the round tab
and the better sound on the nickel...

Now if you have your disc set to just below a nickel... The "window" that you have created is pretty tight on
the nickel area and everything else between a round tab through a zinc penny is gone... And of course with
the window this tight, you will indeed miss a few odd nickels and you will still get a few round tabs and other things
that come in in that range... But if you are looking to increase your nickel to junk ratio... This will help and you will
still get the copper pennies, dimes, quarters, etc.....

HH, Jeff

 

[rmptr]

Good to see Mike "Golden Man" Hillis still in there helping Golden users!

 

[slingshot]

Yeah. Mike's gonna be the cause of me getting a Golden, even though I have the Royal. I was glad to see Jeff's post, also. I had the same results with my Royal-only, of course, I couldn't do anything about the zincers 'cause my notch width is factory preset. Great posts.