Hi
Can anyone who has a silver rejecting Gold Bug perform a simple test for me and report back?
American silver dollars are rather hard to find here in Australia so I cant test mine with one. I have made several enquires but still haven't found a collector with one.
What I have noticed with my GB is that it can totally ignore an aluminium can at a shallow depth. Raise the coil 4 or 5 inches no problem but close up no signal at all. Could someone please test a faulty GB on a can and report what happens? My concern is that gold and aluminium are very similar in Time Constant etc and so aluminium makes a good substitute for a large nugget. I have a 4.5oz nugget that it blats and carries on about when the coil is waved over it, the coil has to be very close to the nugget (almost touching) to achieve the blats and spluts, raise the coil a bit and it works fine but I wish I had a larger nugget for testing. I would almost bet it would be rejected at a shallow depth. Large nuggets near the surface are now quite rare (almost as rare as American Silver Dollars
) here in Australia but it has happened. The biggest of all the Welcome Stranger was found at one inch depth.
I also found a large sheet of copper that the detector rejects when up close and personal
The copper sheet reads about 95 on the discrimination scale but under about 5 inches there is no signal and no indication of a target at all?????
Most disconcerting
Help!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers
Steve D
Can anyone who has a silver rejecting Gold Bug perform a simple test for me and report back?
American silver dollars are rather hard to find here in Australia so I cant test mine with one. I have made several enquires but still haven't found a collector with one.
What I have noticed with my GB is that it can totally ignore an aluminium can at a shallow depth. Raise the coil 4 or 5 inches no problem but close up no signal at all. Could someone please test a faulty GB on a can and report what happens? My concern is that gold and aluminium are very similar in Time Constant etc and so aluminium makes a good substitute for a large nugget. I have a 4.5oz nugget that it blats and carries on about when the coil is waved over it, the coil has to be very close to the nugget (almost touching) to achieve the blats and spluts, raise the coil a bit and it works fine but I wish I had a larger nugget for testing. I would almost bet it would be rejected at a shallow depth. Large nuggets near the surface are now quite rare (almost as rare as American Silver Dollars
) here in Australia but it has happened. The biggest of all the Welcome Stranger was found at one inch depth. I also found a large sheet of copper that the detector rejects when up close and personal
The copper sheet reads about 95 on the discrimination scale but under about 5 inches there is no signal and no indication of a target at all?????
Most disconcerting
Help!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers
Steve D