With gold comes allot of tabs and penny's

[musky8it]

To find gold(rings) you have to dig up every tab that shows, right?

" You're not finding any gold unless you dig tabs ". Is the saying I have always heard.

I have not found any gold rings/coins yet so I really have no experiance on how they show up on my 250. So to test I used my 10K gold wedding ring. And it bounced between tab and 1c, now buried in the ground it may read differant.

Anyone else get the same experiance with these settings on their Ace 250? Adjust discriminator to show only from the last 5 segments for catching pennys but misses the tabs. Pennys show only at the 5th, dimes bounces back/forth between the 5th & 4th segment, and quarters the 4th and 3rd. Is this what all you 250 owners get. I am just getting used to my 250 and wondered if these settings are about right for what I find.

But here this last week I have been setting to all metal and turning down the sensitiveity 4-5 notches(from full). Been doing ok with that. One guy told me more is not always the best, sometimes less is the best. So for the next month or so I am going to try to keep at all-metals and less sensitive.

 

[RickIowa2009]

On beaches I dig everything, by parks with pavillions, maybe every third pulltab, depends how ambitious I am! I have found gold rings, just luck of the draw.
Good luck!

 

[rglyons]

I've found gold rings from the notch to the right of foil all the way up to just left of the 1c notch.
When I used my White's 6000 Di in the past I just dug when it was in the "coins" range and discovered
later I was missing a lot of rings. In my own experience, you must dig somewhere between 50 and 100 pull tabs to get one ring.
I've wished many times this was not so, but due to the nature of detectors, I don't think they will ever be
able to say "RING" with any degree of accuracy.
If you set your Ace to the "jewelry" setting, you should do ok. No iron, but plenty of tabs, and sometimes, "A RING!!!!!!"

 

[John-Edmonton]

Lower "K" gold, depending on what they are amalgamated with can read in the penny range. Usually, the higher the "K", the closer to the pulltab/nickel conductivity it will read.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Gold, depending on size and composition reads all over the place but usually on the lower scale. Gold has the same conductivity as foil.


Bill

 

[treasurehound]

But when it reads for instint , will it be a repeatable signal ??? or will bounce all over the place ? i know the ace preatty good ,
but this is what i like to know ??



tom

 

[musky8it]

tks for all the input, its just what I figured but I was hopeing there was a better way to detect rings without all the tabs. I guess maybe the best thing to do is setup for jewelry when in places that would have a high percent of finding rings(beaches, playgrounds,parks, etc) and coins when searching historical places for old coins. But then again, rings could be lost long ago in historical places and they might be the better rings. And I would miss then.

One more question....some aluminum will read coin on one sway and tab going back the other way. I read that somewhere on this forum and they where right. Yesterday I tried it and every time I got this reading I got a piece of aluminum or tab. Will rings do the same? If so, then I guess if I don't want to miss a ring I better dig every tab/nickle reading I get.