Monte's Nail Board Test Teknetics Omega 10"

Do you guys have fun metal detecting anymore, just think, if you don't find everything today, there is always tomorrow

> The 5 inch coil was the winner over the big
> coils . No secret there.
> Also interesting that the O8 with a concentric did
> that well with a concentric vs DD coils

gman is correct on this, the concentric has the advantage over a
DD coil in this test.

The reason being, there are is always(thereabouts) a nail lengthwise
of a coil sweep.
That would seem to indicate concentrics do better in trash but as Tom
suggests and knows, the ground we detect in is 3D, not 2D.

Place those nails in a tight square pattern with the coin in the middle
and see what happens.....you will not like the results....
Or better yet, use 2 nails and cross them and place a coin underneath
or just off center.....
A Compadre will likely beat any detector in such tests.
Compare a Compadre with the detector currently with the best results
and then honestly report back whick does better.

Just trying to point out a low gain detector that uses a concentric will
do best with these sort of tests.
But these tests will not accurately represent what occurs in the real world.
Conditions can be much worse in the real world than the 2D tests and
can shut down any detector.

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tests were done equally for all. the same pattern, nail ,coins

This isn't true as you can clearly hear the grunt of iron showing you do not have the nails masked, but on the E-Trac, you hear nothing because they are masked out. If you change to 2TF EXACTLY like you have the First Texas machines (2F with low disc) you'll suddenly hear the dime. My guess is the TID on the coin is very low on the 2F tests of FT machines - IE. being read as iron.

I'd take this challenge in real world hunting any day.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/31/2011 02:32AM by Shambler.