That ACE 250 / 9"x12" Coil Never Ceases To Amaze Me :surprised:

[John-Edmonton]

Cabin fever is taken it toll up here. I just had to go out and swing that "ACE", my winter machine tonite. The temp was at about -15C/5F with a light humid breeze. I had the wool sock over the ACE with a nice hot pack tucked in underneath to keep the batteries toasty and the screen from slowing down. Tonite I tracked the depth I was getting with the ACE using the large coil in the snow. My best, deepest "digs" were as follows:

1) A clad dime at 9 inches, with a strong repeatable signal.

2) A penny at 10 inches, again with a repeatable signal.

That is with a matrix of snow....very dry snow! I find that simply incredible. I am going to try an experiment in my test garden later on this spring. I will test my targets with the large 9" x 12" coil on the ACE 250, then litterly drench my test garden with water, wait a while for the soil to get saturated, then do a comparison test again, to see if/how much difference in depth readings I will get. The readings I got today in depth are just incredible for such a inexpensive machine. There are some machines costing over 2 x as much as the ACE that can't pull dimes out at that depth.

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Here are my totals.......I hunted 3 different snow hills tonite and got 35 coins, which was just under $6.00. I also lucked out on a Hong Kong 10 Cent coin.

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[Uncle Willy]

Nice finds John. Now you're finding out what the little yellow demon can realy do. That's why I tell whoever asks that they don't need to bump up from their 250 to anything higher to get great performance. Garrett snuck a few surprises into the Yeller Feller when no one was looking. If you have a 250 with all three coils you have just about everything you need to get whatever you want.


Bill

 

[John-Edmonton]

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[Uncle Willy]

Is that your mascot? Have you sent that pic to Garrett?

Bill

 

[khouse]

Quit squirreling around and get swinging.... Nice photo!

 

[John-Edmonton]

Mary has a copy, and she uses it when doing school presentations.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Thanks....I was out a couple years ago baiting my ACE with bird seed trying to get some bird photos, when along comes this squirrel, jumps on the ACE and I got in a few shots. If you look closely, you can see that he is smiling

 

[Uncle Willy]

Good.

Bill