V3 has awesome depth

[goldbill]

Yesterday I managed to get out after work to hunt a park with some major powerlines. I was working a strip heading towards the monsters and as expected things stated to become real unstable. It was almost dark and I kept thinking just a little more . I thought i was out of range of the lines but the machine was very unstable .I felt I had a weak signal in the chatter so I said okay last dig today and a deep one maybe.Dug a deep plug and at about 10 inchs out comes a toasted Indian, after filling the hole started homeward and the unsuitability stayed with me.What's going on?? Well while checking my sittings I found that i only had 4.5 volts battery . I,m feeling this is amazing , the v found the coin and was almost dead and near power lines . Bill

 

[earthmansurfer]

Damn, that is deep. Congrats and try to top that with a full battery next time. ;-)

I imagine you are talking of a penny and not a nickel since you said toasted? Double damn to detect non silver items that deep.

BTW - was there anything on the VDI?

 

[taker252]

10 inches at 4.5 volts?!?! Try a full battery pack and maybe you'll hit 12-14!!

 

[corvair]

Wowwww! Thats incredible. Glad you found it and glad Whites makes a great machine.

 

[taker252]

So much for the Whites claims that the machine should run effectively down to about 8.0 volts.

 

[goldbill]

I really don't recall it was bouncing . this area is fairly clean so if it is repeatable i dig it .

 

[BHNugget]

Nice find! Usually if I catch my battery that low,the machine is about to the point of turning itself off.

 

[Rob (IL)]

I wasn't 4.5v when he was detecting the coin. I've had operating voltage 8+ volts 1 minute and then have it drop to 4+ volts. The V won't operate below approximately 8 volts. Rob

 

[goldbill]

I wasn't 4.5v when he was detecting the coin. I've had operating voltage 8+ volts 1 minute and then have it drop to 4+ volts. The V won't operate below approximately 8 volts. Rob

I didn't know that, it must have done as you say. I've had it shut off before because of low voltage, turned it back on later and it worked for about 5 minutes.I don't think it was working correctly but my spare battery was 1 mile away.