Well it's short sleeve weather here today in Texas. It was a tuff choice between metal detecting, motorcycle riding, or RC Helicopters.
I decided to take a little time for all 3 and started with the Edge at a local school. This was strickly a clad hunt just to see how the detector worked. Eariler I had reported noise at my house and with Fisher help it was located as the large in ground transformer behind my fence. I am thinking about cutting off all the electricity to the neighbors.....
Anyway I took it to a local grade school right next to some high voltage power lines. I turned the Edge on and did the ground balance routinue. Man, is it easy. Just set it on the ground, hold the auto button for 2 seconds, then raise it 6 inches off the ground and release the auto button after a second. You get the single beep telling you it's balanced. Worked perfect every time I tried it and sometimes got the 3 beeps telling me I was still in balance.
Next I put the detector in the "New Coins" mode. The detector is very easy to switch to the different factory preset programs, all metal, or discrimate mode but you must read the manual first. It's not complicated at all and is a piece of cake to change modes but it's different enough where it's worth reading a little.
I then started to hunt. I also had along a friend with another brand of detector so we could compare signals. We would both swing over a target we had found and compare signals. One compare is worth mentioning. He got a signal that he said was trash because his machine(and I own one of them also) was jumping all over the place in the mid to high range numbers. He said he would not dig it. I ran the Edge over it and it read a solid, and I mean solid "33". From my air testing I knew that was a quarter. I dug it and sure enough I came out with a clad quarter. I then picked up the detector and swung it over the hole again and got a solid "28". Again from my air testing I knew it was a dime. Sure enough I pulled a dime. I was getting ready to leave the hole and swung one more time. You guessed it, another 28 signal and another dime! I am thinking I am starting to like this little blue guy. My partner is scratching his head....
We continued to hunt and mainly just dig the coin signals. I was a liitle concerned that the Edge might have a little problem locking on nickels because of the Frequency. I am happy to say no problems at all. When it's a solid 10 or a 9 to 10 slow jumper you can just about bet it's a nickel. I would put it up against my wife's CZ5 for nickels and that's saying something.
I forgot to mention that I ran the sensitivity all the way up to 9 with no ill effects. The Edge ran quiet and surprisely enough did not give me any false end of swing signals.
That's about all I can tell you from my short hunt today. I was trying to think if there was anything I didn't like. If I really had to pick on something I would like a firmer grip like my CZ70 grip material but that's just my prefence.
All in all I was plesantly surprised. It will be a keeper. I apologize if I paniced anyone in my eariler post on the noise deal. It just appears that is a local problem to me that some dynamite might just solve. It's tuff living in the city around all this junk.
Fisher has done a great job on this one and just in time for the holidays. My wife wants to know what I want for Christmas. I told her I already got it. And by the way the freebee hat is a good one too. It's not what I would have expected in a free hat. Fisher did that right too.
You guys up North eat your hearts out. I also went and flew the RC Helicopter today and tomorrow I am riding the Harley around all day. Winter? What's that?
HH
Harold
I decided to take a little time for all 3 and started with the Edge at a local school. This was strickly a clad hunt just to see how the detector worked. Eariler I had reported noise at my house and with Fisher help it was located as the large in ground transformer behind my fence. I am thinking about cutting off all the electricity to the neighbors.....
Anyway I took it to a local grade school right next to some high voltage power lines. I turned the Edge on and did the ground balance routinue. Man, is it easy. Just set it on the ground, hold the auto button for 2 seconds, then raise it 6 inches off the ground and release the auto button after a second. You get the single beep telling you it's balanced. Worked perfect every time I tried it and sometimes got the 3 beeps telling me I was still in balance.
Next I put the detector in the "New Coins" mode. The detector is very easy to switch to the different factory preset programs, all metal, or discrimate mode but you must read the manual first. It's not complicated at all and is a piece of cake to change modes but it's different enough where it's worth reading a little.
I then started to hunt. I also had along a friend with another brand of detector so we could compare signals. We would both swing over a target we had found and compare signals. One compare is worth mentioning. He got a signal that he said was trash because his machine(and I own one of them also) was jumping all over the place in the mid to high range numbers. He said he would not dig it. I ran the Edge over it and it read a solid, and I mean solid "33". From my air testing I knew that was a quarter. I dug it and sure enough I came out with a clad quarter. I then picked up the detector and swung it over the hole again and got a solid "28". Again from my air testing I knew it was a dime. Sure enough I pulled a dime. I was getting ready to leave the hole and swung one more time. You guessed it, another 28 signal and another dime! I am thinking I am starting to like this little blue guy. My partner is scratching his head....
We continued to hunt and mainly just dig the coin signals. I was a liitle concerned that the Edge might have a little problem locking on nickels because of the Frequency. I am happy to say no problems at all. When it's a solid 10 or a 9 to 10 slow jumper you can just about bet it's a nickel. I would put it up against my wife's CZ5 for nickels and that's saying something.
I forgot to mention that I ran the sensitivity all the way up to 9 with no ill effects. The Edge ran quiet and surprisely enough did not give me any false end of swing signals.
That's about all I can tell you from my short hunt today. I was trying to think if there was anything I didn't like. If I really had to pick on something I would like a firmer grip like my CZ70 grip material but that's just my prefence.
All in all I was plesantly surprised. It will be a keeper. I apologize if I paniced anyone in my eariler post on the noise deal. It just appears that is a local problem to me that some dynamite might just solve. It's tuff living in the city around all this junk.
Fisher has done a great job on this one and just in time for the holidays. My wife wants to know what I want for Christmas. I told her I already got it. And by the way the freebee hat is a good one too. It's not what I would have expected in a free hat. Fisher did that right too.
You guys up North eat your hearts out. I also went and flew the RC Helicopter today and tomorrow I am riding the Harley around all day. Winter? What's that?
HH
Harold
