Some great finds with the V3i

[Neil in West Jersey]

As you may have read in the Excalibur forum, I picked up a ML Excalibur 1000 from Craig's List last week. I got a great deal, but had to invest $150 to lose the "S" rod and a charger which was missing. It is still a great deal and I could easily turn a great profit if I wanted to sell it. I really liked using it in the field I have been working for the last few years, digging a bunch of buttons and cannot wait to take to the seas with it.

This morning I switched back to the V3i and it was a pleasure swinging it. Even with the straight rod the Excal is "head heavy" and wore out my shoulder pretty good. The V3i is so well balanced in comparison!

I dug a lot of pewter buttons which all have very low VDI numbers, even below foil in some cases. Some buttons did not even give any signal from the discriminate channel, but if I am not absolutely sure it is iron, I dig it! One of these signals turned out an 1858 Flying Eagle, which was a low jumpy signal which I considered passing over. Another was a deep signal which only gave a chirp. It turned out to be a Half Reale around 10 inches deep!
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A few things that I noticed was that the dominant frequency is a good way to tell trash from a good target. I pull tab with a 32 VDI has a dominant frequency from the 22.5Khz, while the Flying Eagle had a VDI of 30 but the dominant frequency was 7.5Khz.

Once again the V3i impresses in both depth on a thin 15mm silver coin, as well as its uncanny balance.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Congratulations Neil, that is some real nice hunting. A half real at 10 inches is pretty impressive.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

Those iffy Signals will get you every-time.......nice catch

 

[Druid]

Great Hunt Neil!,

Particularly like the Flying Eagle, rarely ever see one of them posted.

Drew.

 

[GunnarMN]

wow sounds like whites made a kick but detector , if you are getting 12" deep

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

wow sounds like whites made a kick but detector , if you are getting 12" deep

I said more than 10 (not 12) but when you consider just how small and thin the half reale coin is, (smaller than a dime and half as thick) it is equally amazing.

I also did a field test against my recently purchased other brand high end detector and the V3i blew it away when this small, hollow 14K gold charm was placed on the ground. In Best Data the V3i had a strong VDI signal at more than 4 inches with the All Metal picking it up at more than 6. In 22.5KHz, it sounded sweet at 6 inches and the All Metal picked it up at nearly 9.

As for the other brand? It was nearly invisible at more than 1/2 inch!

 

[burlbark]

wow sounds like whites made a kick but detector , if you are getting 12" deep

I said more than 10 (not 12) but when you consider just how small and thin the half reale coin is, (smaller than a dime and half as thick) it is equally amazing.

I also did a field test against my recently purchased other brand high end detector and the V3i blew it away when this small, hollow 14K gold charm was placed on the ground. In Best Data the V3i had a strong VDI signal at more than 4 inches with the All Metal picking it up at more than 6. In 22.5KHz, it sounded sweet at 6 inches and the All Metal picked it up at nearly 9.

As for the other brand? It was nearly invisible at more than 1/2 inch!

Ouch!!!!! Good info.