http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/index.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:43 -0500 Phorum 5.2.15a http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,24047,24047#msg-24047 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,24047,24047#msg-24047 christopher-ohio Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:27:48 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,24045,24045#msg-24045 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,24045,24045#msg-24045 This is only my second try with the cz3d at this spot, previous times I had the f-75.
The ground here is on the hot side...very little movement on the GB knob. The field is mostly rocks under the topsoil, hard to dig.
About two hours (nothing to show) into it, I get a nice short 'ting' high tone. Walked around the target, high tones all the way. I dug through the rocks and down six inches put the pinpointer in the hole, still in the hole. Stuck the handigger in the hole and popped out a smaller plug and the beautiful glint of silver, even on a cloudy day. 1781 half reale in very good shape...you never know.]]> ozzie Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:04:04 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,24036,24036#msg-24036 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,24036,24036#msg-24036 John S Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:32:38 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,24024,24024#msg-24024 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,24024,24024#msg-24024 Beach Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:54:55 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23982,23982#msg-23982 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23982,23982#msg-23982 shilohdigger Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:57:37 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23979,23979#msg-23979 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23979,23979#msg-23979 I read a year ago something simular, but just the opposite, low number noise cancel was equal to lower frequencies on the Etrac, but in this video low noise cancel numbers were the higher frequency with the Explorer.


[www.youtube.com]]]> markg Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:29:54 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23978,23978#msg-23978 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23978,23978#msg-23978 John S Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:05:08 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23958,23958#msg-23958 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23958,23958#msg-23958
From: NASA-Tom
To: Aaron
02/04/2010 06:37AM
Hi Aaron,

One loose 6-32 x 1" metal screw floating inside control box.......posing a danger to the electronics when powered up. Good thing it did not short anything out. I've reinstalled it into circuit board and tightened all other screws. Your unit is a hot one. It air-tests a clad dime at exactly 12.0" in a EMI free area. Salt balance is exact. Quad-driver is perfectly balanced. Old-coins window was ever so slightly out.....not enough to worry about; however, I split hairs....so I dialed it back in to exacting specs. Nickel window is slightly over-zealous......but this one, I left it alone.....as this is exactly where I have my CZ's set at. It'll ID most new nickels (that have never corroded/never seen dirt) as a mid-tone with respective round-tab ID....BUT....the older-generation 'V' nickels, shield nickels and most buffalo nickels ....... in real dirt........ will ID as high-tone 'nickel'. If you want to find new nickels.... switch over to 'salt' mode.....and new nickels will then ID as high-tone 'nickel'.
Your deep target audio response is 'smeared'. This is the only remaining adjustment that I need to make. . . . then I will ship the unit back to you. This smeared response will cause the detector to 'false' quite a bit......and will miss the deep/fringe targets. Deep targets need to sound weak but 'crisp'. I expect to ship the unit back to you on Friday (tomorrow). Monies; I will COMPLETELY leave this one up to you! Only send what you feel is proper!

Sincerely,

Tom

Incredible service and on a donation basis, who does that? I hope those who are sending machines to him are gracious and generous in their appreciation. Toms time is very limited and valuble to him and his family.

Last spring I found a 3 cent peice with my V3i and was concerned that it registered as a pull tab instead of coin on my 1021 and told Tom about it and he asked me to send the coin and machine back to him.

From: NASA-Tom
To: Aaron
06/14/2011 12:39PM
Aaron,

Your 3-C Ag coin ID's as a '50' on my F75 LTD. This is QUITE a bit lower than my coins. Very interesting.

You (now) have a very unique.....one-off/special/custom CZ-3D. I have re-cal'd the unit to ID the 3-Cent Ag coin as a 'high-tone'. Because of the fact that this coin is quite a bit lower in conductivity that anticipated............I have concern as to how much trash you will (now) recover....that'll ID as a 'high-tone'. It will be left up to your discriminating ear to discern 'what depth' you will recover high-tones. I also feel you will be in for a pleasant surprise. There's going to be quite a few more good targets that will now ID as a high-tone. (You will see).

I'm going to try to ship your unit out today also. The coin is inside the battery compartment. I almost taped it to the control box........so you would always have a standardized 'test-target' with you in the field.........should the need arise to test/verify the performance/ID of the unit. Let me know how this unit performs......and what type of interesting targets are recovered.......especially at depth.

This 10210609 is a very powerful unit. I ran a full validation/calibration on the unit just to make sure it is 'per design'. I recommend holding on to this unit. It is quite rare.

Sincerely,

Tom

I'm very proud of my 1021 3D, I consider it a even better coin machine than the Etrac. I dont care what the prices go up to on these older machines, you cant put a price a superior craftsmanship. If I could only have one machine...this would be it.

Thanks Tom.

Sincerely,

Aaron]]> Aaron Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:14:08 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23953,23953#msg-23953 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23953,23953#msg-23953 D&P-OR Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:42:39 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23919,23919#msg-23919 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23919,23919#msg-23919 Shooter Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:40:10 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23912,23912#msg-23912 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23912,23912#msg-23912 I use a safari, as it has excellent depth and discrimination qualities for manicured lawn hunting, which is 95% of my hunting. I will be picking up an atpro soon for water hunting. looking forward to reading your responses. HH]]> possum mo Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:49:29 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23910,23910#msg-23910 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23910,23910#msg-23910 Start with a large gold ring and a square tab where the variance is much more and work down to a small gold ring and a piece of foil or beaver tail....Ring will usually hold the tone longer as you swing the coil back and forth in slow sweeps sort of gold ring Beeeeeep-Beeeeeep versus Beep-Beep....takes some practice and learned and practiced on cold winter days. Certainly not 100 percent efficient but does cut down the odds and a large piece of foil, key, lead sinker or various heavier things may fool you.
Seems like in most newer bells and whistles high priced units the variances are gone but imagine most of our fellow forum member have their litle tricks to cut down the odds and perhaps we can have some further input.]]> Dan-Pa. Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:30:17 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23909,23909#msg-23909 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23909,23909#msg-23909
Thanks,
Mike]]> Mike Hillis Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:05:09 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23875,23875#msg-23875 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23875,23875#msg-23875 Dan-Pa. Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:34:58 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23869,23869#msg-23869 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23869,23869#msg-23869
I wish I knew more.

[www.youtube.com]]]> goodmore Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:14:14 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23858,23858#msg-23858 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23858,23858#msg-23858
Tom in SC]]> tmanly Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:10:58 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23833,23833#msg-23833 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23833,23833#msg-23833 I just sit there and took notes while Tom answered all of my questions and then some. It was well worth the money spent. And on top of all that, he's a nice guy. I hope me posting this doesn't make Tom angry with me, but it's just my way of showing my appreciation AND, letting every other forum member know that it's cool as heck and will be beneficial to ya. I have been detecting since last March on a regular basis and started thinking that I had this thing pretty well figured out. LOL But after tonites phone session, I realize that I have got a long way to go. Thanks Tom. happy Hunting everyone.]]> Kevin B Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:06:31 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23831,23831#msg-23831 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23831,23831#msg-23831
Thanks for the time and help,
Randy]]> jrk Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:01:22 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23828,23828#msg-23828 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23828,23828#msg-23828 wjs Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:58:56 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23822,23822#msg-23822 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23822,23822#msg-23822 houston.craigslist.org]]]> Beach Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:42:29 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23801,23801#msg-23801 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23801,23801#msg-23801 See link:

[www.dankowskidetectors.com]

This time, I hunted close to the old jail again. I figured if there was silver there before, there has to be more. I spent most of my time near here:



Halfway between the tree on the right & the stump in the middle of the pic was this target:



You may be thinking big deal. However, this one was a fun one to recover.

The bottom of this hole was about 10" deep & a 1" root has grown thru this target.
You can see it below:



Now remember...I'm in a city park & can only use that gator digger.
In fact, I couldn't even use the sawtooth blade.
There was no room to saw that root.
I had to place the digger in the center of the root & pound it thru.....

This is what came out of the hole......



Hmmm, pretty cool. Haven't dug one of them in a while. All together, I found no silver today.
Only a wheatie an indian head penny & some zincolns.
The CZ3D was hot on those nickels today.

Here's the total take after I cleaned up everything:



I cooked that stirrup this evening & will spray paint it tomorrow evening.
Then it goes in one of the display cases here at home.
It is still warm enough here in the midwest to detect.
Usually it's frozen this time of the year & hunting is almost impossible.
Man...how I love global warming!!

Thanks for looking.............see ya yardhunter]]> yardhunter Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:57 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23797,23797#msg-23797 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23797,23797#msg-23797
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Thanks
Tom in SC]]> tmanly Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:31:18 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23790,23790#msg-23790 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23790,23790#msg-23790 Harold,ILL. Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:21:35 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23777,23777#msg-23777 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23777,23777#msg-23777 Beach Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:24:33 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23757,23757#msg-23757 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23757,23757#msg-23757
In the "Looks like a serious metal detector" post, you mentioned that you have wanted ..."volume control over 'iron audio only'' for fisher detectors for many years. I have wondered about adding this feature to a CZ3D. Could not disc 0 and disc 1 be tied togather so that you would hear both disc 0 and disc 1 at the same time, and use a resistor to lower the volumn on disc 0 (which would be the the "channel" that is producing the iron tone grunt) to about 50%, while leaving the disc 1 circuit as is. If done correctly, the normal volumn control on the detector should still work as before with the added benefit of the disc 1 channel filtering out most of the iron, and disc 0 allowing the iron to sound out, but at a greatly reduced volumn compared to the total volumn of the two circuits combined.

I hope I said what I meant.

What would be involved in making such a mod to the 3D? It seems on the surface to be "fairly" simple, but so do many things in life until you get involved with them :-)]]> connortn Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:16:41 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23746,23746#msg-23746 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23746,23746#msg-23746
The rusted iron in the vicinity rose the VID on the Fe side a full 50%, from 13 to 20 or so! For any detector, this drop will probably happen and most people don't dig these signals. I like the phrase from TheMarshal over at Finds - "They are metal rejectionists, not detectorists." ;-)

One can only imagine how much the VID can drop depending on the size, state, vicinity, etc. of the iron to the target.

Enjoy,
Albert

[www.youtube.com]]]> earthmansurfer Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:24:44 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23745,23745#msg-23745 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23745,23745#msg-23745 rapidroy7 Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:53:56 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23730,23730#msg-23730 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23730,23730#msg-23730
I have a 2011 eTrac with all factory items they come with....chargers, headphones, battery packs. In addition I also have the black SunRay inline probe with an extra middle rod for easy attachment. I have a digital camo screen cover, and Andy's eTrac/Explorer book. Everything is in perfect working order.

If you have any questions feel free to email or message me.

$1200 shipped to your door in U.S.]]> Daniel Tn Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:55:03 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23725,23725#msg-23725 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23725,23725#msg-23725 Question: Since I hear a threshold kick on when switching to 3 or 4 tones, are these tones somehow more sensitive than the much quieter running two tone??? Or has this post totally confused all who have tried to make sense of it. I did find a 1952 nickel today at a measured 9 inches!!!! In two tone. Which i wil likely hunt in from now on unless I am doing the ONE TONE and DISC 6 mode of unmasking.]]> Kevin B Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:04:10 -0500 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23722,23722#msg-23722 http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,23722,23722#msg-23722 Coinseeker 78 Thomas Dankowski Open Forum Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:25:02 -0500