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QuoteI been thinking about having one on my farm before it is sold, still a few relics left not many but a few, how are they set up?
I am sure they can be setup many different ways. The one I went to they marked off a field and then planted coins, tokens and other things around the field. Nothing was more than a couple inches deep. There were tokens with numbers on them that corresponded to pri
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I like a detector with good accuracy and a larger coil. If the place they have the seeded hunt is a public place like a park with other trash in it you need something with a good ID or at least know what targets they planted so you can get an idea on which ones to look for. Don't waste time digging real deep signals or ones that are not in the planted target zones. Time is critical......;o)
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QuoteNow there is also a Gen (D) mode..and this one is where i was caught way off guard..I was actually taken back...WHY?? Well it is this a threshold based general search mode...BUT and that's a BIG BUT... You can add disc to it but its not a combined type mode.
On mine I can not add disc to the Gen (D) mode only the Gen mode. Was this a typo?
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QuoteMay be a dumb question, but if coin hunters want 3 or 4 tones and relic hunters want 2 tones (maybe some do, maybe some don't), couldn't you have 4 tones available and if someone wants fewer tones, couldn't they set 1 or 2 of the tones to be redundant, ie, same break point and tone frequency as one of the other tones?
it is possible on some of the modes but not all of them.
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QuoteIf Nokta do make 'Deep Mode' three-tone, I would ask them to make sure the threshold from 2nd to 3rd tone is plenty low enough, and NOT the US-centric high level between two types of one-cent coin. Probably best to make it a 4-tone mode, something close to how the F75 bands are.
The DI3 mode lets you pick the break points and also set the tone. That would be the way to go. And I
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I have tested it mostly in parks so far. As a coin hunter it works real good and really seems to find the coins in the trash. I really like the small football coil. Its 4.5 x 7 I believe. Sometimes deeper pull tabs will hit in the coins area (in 5K anyway) but the target ID seems to be fairly accurate. I tested it yesterday in a super trashy area of a park by a pavillion. I was pulling coin afte
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QuoteTom DI just uploaded V1.08 into the Impact. Testing to commence.
I noticed some of the ID numbers changed with the update. I did not have time to check them all yet though. On the Gen program a dime used to hit at 82 non normalized after the 1.08 update it now hits at a 77 and the normalized ID is now 84.
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QuoteSome of you guys might get "personalized" upgrades for your exacting 'niche' conditions from Alper ....... for you to test and report
I would like Di4 to let me adjust the audio tone. Don't know why that feature is not available. Come on Alper send me an update file with that option......;o)
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QuoteI also strongly agree about having the choice of 4 tones for coin hunting verses just 2 or even 3
5 tones with 4 tone breaks would work good for coin hunters. 6 would be even better with 5 break points. You could set your iron, foil, nickel, aluminum trash, zinc, high conductors to different tones and break points.
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Found this ring at a local soccer field. Video below......;o) I had a jewelry shop check it out today. It weighs 6.2 grams and is 14K. today's gold rate its worth about $140. Make me some offers. Thanks.
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QuoteMy Fisher F19
I had a real good one that would ID real deep and accurate. I got rid of it but tried a couple more after that and never got one as good as that one.
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QuoteHow much deep iron do people dig running the ML units?
No doubt I have dug some deep iron that sounded and looked good on the ML machines But I have also dug targets that other detector could not hit either. I would not say they are deep iron magnets but you will occasionally dig some deep iron. I like the fact that they wont false on steel bottlecaps like most every other detector with
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I have owned all three of them and right now have a Safari. If money is no object I would go with the Etrac. I know you said you were going to buy new but you can pick up a good safari in the $400 range if you look around. They are about a deep as the Etrac and are accurate too.
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if you are running a detector with multiple frequencies like the V3i and it is set to non normalized then your ID numbers for the same target would be different across different frequencies. This would mess up your discrimination pattern if you happen to be running some sort of notches. Other negative you would have to memorize three different sets of ID numbers (for a three frequency detector)
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I bought one of the sorex pros also. I have used the signum and the Berkut in the past so I am somewhat familiar with them. I will make some videos when mine gets here and I get a chance to play around with it. I would say to read over the manual a few times before it gets to you. Mine is supposed to be here on Thursday. I always take any new detector to a test garden and play with all the settin
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My first CZ I bought was an 1121 serial number. The thing was unbelievably deep but I did not know it at the time. It was not until after I sold it and then bought a few more down the road I realized how good it was. I wish I had that one back again......;o)
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