:usaa:Brainwasher-results of stat mode bottle cap test on a quarter-PASSED!:thumbup:

[vlad]

Would you believe I did not have any clad quarters? Had to dismount a 1927S SL Quarter to do this.
Coin is buried at 4 inches. Detector in Stat, with sens at 75. What you would first do is a fast grab, than a manual, but my setting were
still saved from the ground balance test on the bottle cap. When I ran the loop up and down, it stayed it the eighties, occasionally going to 90. After the detector started to drift off then the numbers would drop, but as long as I did an occasional retune it stayed in the eighties. It did not scroll all over the place, including single digits and even a blank screen with no i.d. like the bottle cap.
If you try it out you might crank the sensitivity even higher and see if this accentuates the negative effect on bottle caps.

 

[Brainwasher]

Thanks for the help on that. I know I will get much better depth in the STAT mode, but now I'm wondering if that little trick won't work in the DE or JE mode too or if that only works in the STAT mode. I will have to give that a shot.

 

[vlad]

I could not duplicate the results on bad i.d. of a bottle cap in any mode except Stat, while they all give caps good i.d.'s in every other mode-including motion all metal of a cap-and all modes gave good i.d. of conductive targets.

 

[liquid1]

Vlad I got killed on a farm site yesterday with bottle caps..i will try the Stat mode asap..Now i am excited
The read from 30 to 50 in Disc 4" to 6" deep..1970's era..errrrrrrrr..

 

[vlad]

To retune because in this mode it does drift, and the threshold is preset.
[Has everybody noticed the wide range of i.d.'s for bottle caps-they are reading from 30 to 90. That is a very extreme spread, and I can only wonder if it is ground mineral conditions.]

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

n/t

 

[liquid1]

Yea me to, and I think it depends on the cap metal era..some are more steel ,aluminum,zinc it seems ..some well rusted 1973ish
in the Hot red clay of NC..My feo changes quick .03 to .3 in just a few feet..I am hunting around an old concession stand that I believe has old coins..It now a plowed field with terrace..as I was using PF mode..alot..But I tried them all..except all motion Stat..

 

[vlad]

But it works like a charm as long as you continue to frequenly hit re-tune-there is no doubt in my ground.
Now if the word just gets passed around.............
Let us know how the 6" concentric works.

 

[vlad]

IN STAT YOU ARE OPERATING IN NON MOTION-MAYBE ME.BILL CAN EXPLAIN MORE DEEPLY THE PRINCIPLES INVOLVED.

 

[Idaho-Marke]

n/t

 

[liquid1]

it rained hard all weekend for my small coil stat test..

 

[Brainwasher]

I still haven't had the chance to try the small coil out, but I have tried to duplicate this result with the large coil in the JE and DE modes and failed. It seems this little trick only works in the STAT mode, but it does work. I did notice a similar effect in the DE and JE modes while pinpointing and using the icon portion of the screen. At the very top of the screen there are some icons indicating probable targets. I usually don't pay much attention to that part of the screen because the angle of the meter makes it difficult to see, but I noticed the bottle caps and pull tabs, while "pinpointing", cause the icons to bounce all over the top of the screen, where coins stay pretty solid. I believe this is working similar to being in the STAT mode as Vlad described because pinpoint is non-motion detection also. I still think it is still easier to see the bottle caps in the STAT mode as Vlad described. Between using the feo meter and the STAT mode, I am digging fewer bottle caps and I don't think I'm leaving goodies behind by doing so.

 

[EZrider]

I was doing some air testing on diffrent kind of caps lastnight with the 75. Just for the hell of it i usted off my BH 3300 an put some batterys in. Put the 3300 in Disc mode and max sens. I was shocked to not even get a wisper from any caps and yet still get all coins. Granted it doesnt have the depth or seperation but still. I wonder why the 75 doesnt have the same kind of programing ?