Response time

[nad]

A friend left me a "metal detector" to play with....I have three at the house, a 1266x, a Tesoro, Vaquero and Silver UMax. When you get to the sweet spot in the coil each one of these detectors gives a signal very rapidly, and you can pin point the target with little or no trouble.. The dropped off metal detector is something else. About a foot to eight inches after you pass over the coin, it BEEPS..There are no controls to twiddle and turn to decrease the lag time,,Totally impossible to pinpoint in anything less than a ten inch circle...I don't see how it could be used in the field....The other thing is that, could I have been set up???..Can a detector be tuned for a full second or two ,lag time delay? This unit may be the ultimate no motion detector...You don't move it if you want to find coins..Will not mention the brand, since I don't think any company would let something like this hit the street......Cordially Nad

 

[khouse]

That sounds like the Bluetooth wireless headphone I tried. 12 inches past the target I would hear a beep.

 

[tab-nabit]

There are some sad pieces out there. Best to stick to the well known brands and models.

 

[BarberBill]

That's one of the reasons I really like my Tesoros. Very quick response/retune, easy to pinpoint with.
BB

 

[slingshot]

A friend left me a "metal detector" to play with....I have three at the house, a 1266x, a Tesoro, Vaquero and Silver UMax. When you get to the sweet spot in the coil each one of these detectors gives a signal very rapidly, and you can pin point the target with little or no trouble.. The dropped off metal detector is something else. About a foot to eight inches after you pass over the coin, it BEEPS..There are no controls to twiddle and turn to decrease the lag time,,Totally impossible to pinpoint in anything less than a ten inch circle...I don't see how it could be used in the field....The other thing is that, could I have been set up???..Can a detector be tuned for a full second or two ,lag time delay? This unit may be the ultimate no motion detector...You don't move it if you want to find coins..Will not mention the brand, since I don't think any company would let something like this hit the street......Cordially Nad

When one of the coils messed up on one of my metal detectors and I tried to resolder it, I got a similar response when I finally realized the wires were backwards. Back in the 80's Compass came out with the Coin Magnum- a precursor to the modern motion machine. In fact, it had a switch on it to switch it to this mode if the main mode could not be tolerated. Basically, it was the quietest detector ever, as the threshold was always steady-some said they could pick up really deep targets if the threshold wavered ever so slightly. Back to the subject-once a target was encountered, there would be quite a lag before the sound because it could not accept or reject the target unless you came back and went ever so slightly back over the target to give the machine "time" to analyze. So at regular speeds, it would pick up everything-but you would hear the sound well after the fact.

 

[nad]

Slingshot, thanks..Never had a detector that was this "slow" before in my life...I didn't know what to make of it Cordially Nad

 

[Carl-NC]

Some of the Made-in-China cheapos do this. The processing & audio is mostly done in a slow microprocessor so there is a huge delay in getting the 'beep'. One of my China models has a 6-8" beep delay.

- Carl