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Almost everyone today wants an SMF detector. Can someone explain to me why it is better, preferably an electrical engineer and why the CZ did not "obsolete" others. I am pretty sure it is better in salt water and would like to know why. Also, I would appreciate comparisons from people who use both. I am not looking for advertising or mine's better than yours BS. I just want to
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I am certainly not a long time user of any metal detector but with my 120s in iron, I use the lowest discrimination setting. If it sounds good and seems small, I dig it.
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Update: Conquistador started falsing bad with any coil. I took it apart and sprayed Detoxit d5 in the potentiometers and switches and blew them out with air. They looked like they had been cleaned with WD40 as there was a film on them. When done, the falsing stopped, the Cleansweep worked and I was one happy camper. It still has only two out of three frequencies but I can live with that.
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This is not the old lunchbox design, it is in the micro max box. Again, if the cleansweep works in the Mojave and Outlaw, how could it be shorted out and if the control box is shorted, why does the 8"coil work?
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i recently purchased an original Conquistador with the frequency switch on the bottom of the control housing. It worked fine with my 8" concentric coil after I tweeked the GB. However when I attached the clean sweep coil, the threshold went full loud and would not quiet down no matter what, even in discrimination and held in the air. The cleansweep works fine on my Mojave and Outlaw, the
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I recently purchased a Conquistador with the round holes in the speaker. The board does not say el dorado on it, it says Umax. There is only one pot on the board that I could find, it was in the bottom right had corner. Is this the ground balance adjustment?
I really like the slow retune, just hover over the target and it gets smaller and smaller but I cannot hold it still enough for it to
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I found this under "How to measure dirty electricity" at emfanylisis.com:
My favorite simple EMI detector is a basic AM radio. You turn the AM dial all the way to the left (500 KHz) and right (2 MHz) and the radio will show you a difference in static based on changes in the electromagnetic environment. This is especially good for detecting dirty electricity in a home. I do this at th
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" I wish someone would invent a portable EMI meter that would tell you the type and strength of the EMI at a site so you'd know which detector would work best at that particular site."
I started the thread asking if there was one.
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The only way I could see would be to take a detector that shows ground balance numbers with you and see if you can find a place with higher or lower overall ground balance numbers and adjust your deeptech there.
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They look like the sprue that results from a bullet mold. Flat side is where the sprue cutter shears the excess lead and the top where the mold overflowed where poured.
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Thanks Mike! That was what I was looking for. I have an old Compass Judge II and the tips will help there too. I believe it has both all metal TR and discrimination TR but the Stingray is lighter and waterproof and only takes 6 batteries instead of 12! Anyway thanks guys for your help.
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Tom, in post 41 I said: Gentleman's agreement: "I have read all the rebuttal but only parts of the Munich studies. I still say it only casts shade one part so the ball is in your court to rebut the rest of the study. If you do, I will hang my head in shame, admit that there is an extremely high probability that dowsing has never worked, and apologize for wasting your time reading,"
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Since all this star wars terminology is confusing, How about this? You said "All this BS about dowsing is just that, BS. I said "Proof is in the pudding, feed me some." You said, "Here's an honest to goodness DBT youtube video that proves it." I said, "Yup, that proves that these guys couldn't find a bottle of water under a box! Is that all you got?&q
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I have an old Stingray that I sent to Tesoro and had the leaking coil replaced. It has a TR discrimination mode. On one of the forums, someone tells of when. during a sidewalk removal, a person with an old TR detector found more than the new detectors because "it didn't see the iron'. The Tesoro manual does not explain very well how to make it work. I need help in figuring out
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Tom,
#1: You have DBT youtube videos claiming dowsing is proven "not possible", I have provided multiple links where DBTs were used and you claim, without any data or research, that they don't prove anything. Sematics?
#2: You are not going to even look at the links until I, a diesel mechanic with no college education, agree to make a statement? One, does it matter what I say o
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The first part about evolution and global warming, while I don't consider it bizarre but criminal, was to show that not all that is said to be science is really that. You blame me for moving goal posts but look at global warming, I mean climate change. I most certainly do not agree that this has been corrected.
As for the contradiction on preponderance of evidence and DBTs, I was saying t
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When I was a kid many years ago, my mom would look at me through steely eyes and say in one tone, "Ronald, if you do that again, I will tell your father". And you know what; I didn't even have to look into those steely eyes to understand what she was telling me. I don't have as much incentive to learn Tesoro but I'm getting there. I don't have the expensive latest
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Here are my conclusions for what they are worth.
The youtube video test, DBT or not, proved that a few individuals who thought they could pass the test, failed conclusively. I really do not think the tester needed to be out of the tent while testing and that it made no difference. Mr. Randi, the first $10,000 and later the $1,000,000 man’s challenge is along the same line. You can find the
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Gentlemen, I very much appreciate all of you challenging what I say. I know you have no great duty to convince me of anything yet you, and especially Tom, spend much time, and I know time is money, on the subject, This is skepticism and to me it is what science is about. In the world today, I believe pseudoscience is being used for purposes other than proving anything. One example is evolution
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Is there any way to tell what kind of EMI or the level of it with which to experiment? Example: Is there any way to tell if my Super Duper 800 works better than my Z99 in EMI caused by cell phone towers but my Z99 is better with electrical lines overhead and can I measure the different levels to know which one is the most likely to be successful?
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Steve, I totally expect skepticism from scientists. The blood of diabetics contains sugar. Person who discovered did so by tasting it. Who in his right mind would have thought it was a good idea to taste urine? Penecillin, teflon, vulcanized rubber, microwaves were all discovered by accident. There was nothing inherently scientific about any of these but they happened. If the reaction of the
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n. A testing procedure, designed to eliminate biased results, in which the identity of those receiving a test treatment is concealed from both administrators and subjects until after the study is completed.
Double blind experiment - Dictionary.com
The administrator was there during the testing procedure. I do not believe that made a difference in the results, I just contest that it is a DBT.
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I was right in that this is a part of the Munich study but I was wrong in that the information about the success rate in Sri Lanka is in this part. The Munich test link is for Part 2. The success rate in Sri Lanka and Sinai desert are in Part 1.1. In the link provided by Tom in Ca, look on page 172. This seems repeatable to me. Preceding this, he notes that statistics show that most tests sho
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All Right! Now I feel we are getting somewhere. Here are my observations. Again, you ask if I still believe in dowsing when I have repeatedly said the results are inconclusive and that settled science is not science.
The five minute video I have problems with in that the researcher does not use an unbiased assistant to administer the tests and as such, even though it claims to be a DBT,
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