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HI Art,

Like I tell everyone I am still above ground yet.Still haven't recuperated yet from my 3 stents put in my heart, but feel when I can get out and start swinging my detector it will all get better. I got a new Fisher F-75 to try out this spring and see how it will compare to my GT.
Enjoy reading all your post and every once in a while I have to put my 2 cents in too.

Have a good day Art.

Rick
 
Have fun swinging that freaky looking thing (F75).

Got one of those Wallyworld excercize things to work out on. Has helped a lot. Have a lot more endurance now.
Got the blood pressure and glucose down, but the colesterol is still too high.
Darn Doctor wants me to quit eating everything I like.
Heart still acts up at times. Forget the name for it....skips beats. He says it trys to fire from the wrong end or fires early from the right end. Two problems. Says it's common, I just have more than my share.

HH Art
 
Okay you can disregard this statement"Boy am I confused now I guess I better go get some more coffee and less Bushmills"

I will have some more coffee with Lot's of Old Bushmills in it:cool::cheers:


Thanks Art(NWOH)and Thanks Rick (ND)

You two cleared it up for me in not in a fog now. Let's see where did "She who must be Obeyed" Hide my bottle of Old Bushmills ?:confused:
 
How about with Coffee & Bushmills:confused:
 
Old Bushmills is blended Irish Whiskey....produced in county Antrim in Northern Ireland and is considered the old whiskey distillery in the world.
I prefer Bushmills Black also a blended whiskey
I also like Bushmills Millennium a single malt straight whiskey yummy!

I also like Jameson's but not as much. Which is also a blended Irish Whiskey. Being Irish I guess I just don't like Scotch.
 
Alcohol (any brand) does not go well with beta blockers (metoprolol).
Can drink beer slow(no more than 1 per hour). Can't get drunk anymore .
Has bad effects.

HH
 
The XS2 550 was bought for 49.00 and will probably receive it sometime this week.Another question dimes and quarters read with what numbers and nickles?Is this meter very difficult to calibrate?
 
Nickles 448, zincs 539, copper pennies,dimes, quarters (silver or clad) 550.
Wildherre's Sovereignmods website has cheat sheets for both 550 and 180 meters.
http://www.geocities.com/sovereignmods/start.html

Worst thing about calibration is that the adjustment is very touchy. Same problem with the "Sovereign" Elite meter.

What I would like to do some day Is to get one of the adjustment pots for a 180 meter and install it in one of my 550's. A resistor would need to be changed also, still keeping the 550 scale. The object would be to have an adjustment that does not have such a wide range.....therefore less touchy.

HH
 
Art,the cheat sheet explains it very well and the site has a lot of interesting mods for the Sovereign.Thanks for the help.
 
Update on the XS2 meter.I have the meter installed on top of the handle of a straight shaft this part worked great good balance and line of sight to see the screen.After the meter was installed the threshold seems to fluctuate a little.The numbers bounce around a bit but you can see within the bounce the correct ID numbers.I hope to get some field use in the next week to see how well this is going to work.
 
You added more cable when you installed the meter. This causes the detector to pick up more stray noise.
The meter is very sensitive to very small changes in the ID voltage, so any noise will cause it to be twitchy.

When you get out in a fairly quiet area, you will notice that some numbers will stay rock solid until you hit a target, while others seem to be undecided between two different numbers.

In some locations you may not get any falsing, but the noise getting into the meter (mostly through the cable) will have it bouncing all over the place all the time.

HH
 
Art,will a better wrap and tie down of the cable help this problem?I use to have a Elite with a 550 meter converted to a 180 but if I remember correct the meters ID numbers were prone to drop on the depth of a target.Thanks
 
I have tried wrapping the cables (coil and meter both) all different kinds of ways, but have not come up with anything that has significantly reduced noise pickup.

Shortening the cables seems to help a little.

For a modification, I replaced the meter cable on my XS2 meter with one fabricated out of shielded wire. That really helped.

You can always get used to it after a while too.

The meter readings will start coming up a little short in the last couple inches of depth on real in-ground targets unless you are using a GT. The GT seems to ID right MOST of the time on a clean flat coin at just about any depth.
Best rule of thumb is to dig anything that sounds weaker but does not quite come up to a good ID.

You should also allow a little play in the readings most of the time unless you are trying to avoid specific targets. The good targets don't always give you a perfect reading.

You will find that the meter will drift a digit or two over time. You can correct it if you want or let it ride, allowing that as long as it sounds about right that the meter could be off a little anyway. Again this will depend on if you really want to reject very specific targets that sound pretty good, such as tabs that are at 450, 460, 475, 500, 510, 536-538. Just examples.....take note of what your better sounding trash repeatedly comes up to and avoid it while digging the uncommon ones. You can find some neat stuff that way.

HH
 
The T-8oo should work pretty good around trash. Should sound pretty good too.

Hate the cable on the T-10. Very springy and hard to wrap. Would guess the T-800 is the same way.

The ID comes from the control box, not the coil as some think. The wire on pin # 5 in the meter cable (this is the ID voltage) is the one that gets most of the noise into the meter.

Will not matter much which coil you use. The last inch or two is where the ID will start showing up a little low , except with the GT. It's a difference in the control box, not the coil that does it.

HH
 
Only had enough time for about a one and one half hour hunt at College Row in Bedford Va,This is an old 15 acre site of an old boys school estb. 1838 with only the old brick steps and side walks remaining.Found about a dozen coins one wheat back the 550 meter was true when tested by digging some thrash.I've taken a lot of metal detectors to this iron infested site that wouldn't work at all.At this point the Sovereign XS with the straight shaft and 550 meter may work.The zincs read at 542.
 
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