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WHICH IS THE BETTER COIN HUNTING MACHINE, THE FISHER ID EDGE OR TESORO DELEON? I HAVE AN ID EDGE AND HAVE FOUND SOME COINS WITH IT BUT IT STILL ISN'T EXACTLY WHAT I WANT. IS THE DELEON ABOUT AS DEEP AS THE EDGE OR LESS DEPTH? THE COIN ID ON THE EDGE IS VERY ACCURATE AND THE DEPTH IS RIGHT ON TOO. I ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY A DELEON BUT I'M NOT SURE IT WILL BE AS DEEP OR AS ACCURATE AS THE EDGE IS. CAN ANYONE GIVE ME SOME INFO ON THE DELEON AND IT'S ID CAPABILITIES AND DEPTH? AM I MAKING A MISTAKE WANTING TO TRADE MY EDGE FOR A DELEON? I KNOW THERE IS SOME DELEON USERS HERE AND WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM THEM. THANKS..........ROGER
Roger, I have never tried the Edge, so I cant comment on it. I have had my DeLeon since Dec. 2003, and the 5th coin I found with it was a two shilling (florin) which people had been walking over for years. It was about 4 to 5 inches deep (yes, even after that time I can remember exactly where and how I found it..such was the impact it made). Since then I have had many wonderful outings with the DeLeon (I wont give statistics) but I have found a lot of coins, a lot of money ($), lots of silver rings and 3 gold rings. It goes plenty deep enough for me in parks and playing fields (4 - 5 inches, no trouble) and I seldom have the sensitivity at more than 4 (out of 10). Sometimes I run the sensitivity at 2 to 3, particularly if the ground is really hard, and it can get like concrete where I am. I have taken it to saltwater beaches, but only used it on dry sand where it performs very well. On one occasion it gave a signal at over 8", and the reading was consistent with one of our $2 coins. I dug down over 12 inches and had gone from dry sand into wet sand when I found the $2 coin. I thought that was pretty good for a detector which isn't recommended for the beach. It is the best detector I have for being able to distinguish iron, so you can run it with disc. quite low and still not have to dig iron (rusted or otherwise). It does take some time to get to know, and you really have to listen to it as well as watch the meter. The audio will give you the alert (particularly to coins and rings), the meter will really help you to read what the target isn't. When you understand how to correlate the numbers with the bars, then you are beginning to get the hang of the DeLeon...If you do choose it, good luck. Be patient, get to know it and you wont be sorry. HH Sapper
Can't speak for Fisher, though I heard they love iron. When Vince Gifford designed the TID on the Deleon, he grouped silver coins under one of the 5 segments. He also used 95 as the magical number to verify silver coins. If you hit 95 and the segment is not extended at it's highest point or moves around, you either have a coin on it's side or maybe some can slaw. When it pegs at 95, dig. One segment is for nickels and it reacts the same. The lowest segment is iron, which I pass up. Between nickels and silver is the pull tabs segment. This is where rings fall into also, so using the numbers with this segment can tell you a bit of a difference between rings and tabs. Rings tend to be higher and will actually activate a portion of the silver segment.
Looking at the ID Edge, the differences I see is:
Taking the time to push buttons over thumbing the disc or sense knobs (fast and easy when you are determining a find).
Segment on the ID Edge gives you a block on the segment compared to a segment increasing in height for that segment when the signal becomes stable
From what I understand, Fishers are deeper, that is to say that the reception is more sensitive to the transmitted signal, but you give up stability for depth if it doesn't get a good solid return signal.
Any uMax unit is a great coin hunter, and so are the Garrett ACE 250 and 1350. I personally don't think Tesoro's H.O.T. units are tuned for coins as well as the uMax, but that's just my opinion. Another opinion is that I wouldn't give up my Deleon for any Fisher model. Sorry if I offend.
Hi Roger, I can't really say what is the better of the two but you got me thinking -
If a person blind folded me and took me out in the middle of nowhere and told me to keep the blind folds on and if he was to hand me a detector one at a time out many different brands and models to swing over an area, I can almost guarentee that I would know when ever I had a Tesoro in my hand, not only by its light weight but more so by the great way they hit on targets and the sweet sounds of the beeps. I have had many different brands and models over the years and some have been good but there is nothing like a Tesoro. Sorry to get off track on your post but it just got me thinking about all the detectors that I have had and no matter what machine I buy I always go back to a Tesoro. I can honestly say to you Roger if you have ever had/used a Tesoro before that you will like the DeLeon, even if it doesn't have the most accurate target display in the world which most tid detectors don't have in my opinion, it will still hit hard on coins and jewelry at good enough depths. Steve.
I can't speak about the edge either, but I've been using the DeLeon since last August with excellent results. I've dug coins tp 8 inches and a bit more, the ID on mine is quite good and I find it just plain fun to use. I've used the 7" concentric and the 5.75" concentric coils on it as well as the standard 9X8 and they all have given pretty accurate ID although I find the depth reading varies a bit.. All in all though, I have to say I've been quite pleased with the detector.
HH
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