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88junior Wrote:
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> It seems like a very nice machine can it disc out
> aluminum foil?
No Junior, highest it go's is smal iron, but the screen ID is pretty good its got a wide section for foil between iron and nickel. For myself foil is where some of the tiny thin silver coins comes in so i don't disc it anyways.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Running max sensitivity it is noisy, dropping it down a few clicks and its really stable.
18khz is very sensitive and ideal for the small hammered coins here in the UK, but i was hunting over one of my fields today on 8khz as I've picked the small shallow stuff already with etracs, 705, racer etc and was picking up buckles and big buttons at decent depth.
This field is a bit of a pig, it
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Quick video of the 5' coil on a 10'coin, and digging it up.
The ground is showing med/high mineralisation on this detector but once ground balanced it see's right through it.
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Seems to be an issue with the volume on them in the UK, no volume control on the headsets, either near silent or full volume via
the detector controls?
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Another little interesting feature, DL-discrimination level, it doesn't up the disc as you would think, it raises/lowers the reaction time.
At the lowest setting it is slower processing and sort of takes a snap shot and you get good iron rejection, turn it up and it's dead fast but comprises ID.
On low setting its kind of like an etrac and high setting is like a racer!
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One for the small coil lovers, 5'coil hitting a 9' and then 10' victorian penny with stable ID in medium to high mineralisation, signal on the 10' coin is faint but the ID says dig me!
I'll do another video scanning the same coins then dig them up as i don't believe it myself lol
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The GM5 arrived thismorning, i very quickly put it together and gave it a simple air test, which to be honest was poor compared to the racer2, but i then ran it over the 9inch victorian penny in my garden and i was very surprised it nailed it and gave a clear dig me on the TID screen, the same coin the racer barely hit! High hopes this little detector is getting through my ground far better.
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Some folk here in the UK were saying that small silver like half and quarter cut hammered coins fall as low as 15, i found large hammered silver in the low 50's and the highest silver in the low 70's for milled victorian three and sixpence coinage, so if i didn't dig everything above say iron nails i could have been missing out! Very high 90's felt like it was back around to t
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Well I've one on order, a dual frequency detector with a few nice features, also ordered the fighter coil which is for medium to high mineralised ground, we'll soon see then, nothing ventured nothing gained!
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Tnss i could get the very odd peep on an old victorian penny which is a big coin, but i knew it was there and you have to stand over it and work it to get it, defo wouldn't get it in a real life hunt, i tried a freshly buried us quarter @10' but it didn't pick it up, just my soil i guess, when it gets to 3-4 bars on the racer probably most detectors would struggle.
Keith im happy
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So as much as i liked many of the features on my R2 it was missing the most important feature for me, that's being able to hit on a 10 inch coin in my ground.
I tried the nel tornado, super coil and it defo hit harder the the stock, tried the big 15' racer coil and still no luck, so i have had to admit defeat.
The racer showed mostly 3-4 bars where i hunt so im looking suggestions for
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I like everthing about the r2 except the lack of depth in my ground, i can get a 8-9' victorian penny but I've a 10' quarter that the large15' coil won't even hit!
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Hi Keith, on Deeptech's website they list the Warrior as not as suitable eg 1 out of 3 on mineralised ground, though you got good depth with yours, what Deeptech would suggest for deep small silver in (3-4bar soil, racer2) mineralised ground?
cheers!
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the tornado coil is a poor fit to the R2 stem, i made a plastic spacer which helps, but the bolt hole is way to big so it dances around a bit in use.
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Is the impact to be a coin / relic / beach / gold or an all rounder?
Would it compliment an R2 or would it basicly be an R2 with changeable freq?
Anyone heard anything? i see most of the testers have been quiet on here recently, maybe there testing it and could offer a squeek of knowledge??
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With respect, if you found that lot then your site is nowhere near hard hunted! I was at an event last month with 40+ detectorist with mostly minelabs and deus on a piece of ground roughly 1-2 acre. The same site has been used for past years for detector events, so having had hundreds of detectors over it you would say well hunted, and no surprise on the day no one found anything of age exc
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my Racer2 shows full until about 1/2 hour before it go's flat lol
I use rechargeable batteries and top them up after a few hunts no matter what the battery indicater says and carry a spare set if im out for a whole days hunting.
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I see the red racer going for £315 in th UK, that's a fair drop and real good value, thinking of getting one for the daughter.
Also wondering if it's a sign the impact is about to be released?
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Thats exactly the confirmation i was looking for Keith so many thanks, with stock coil and with isat at the lowest setting of 1 and running in 2 tone or deep i mainly get 3-4 bars, when isat at max of 10 i get mainly 1 bar, but when i fit the nel 13x12 tornado it lowers the bars by 1 and it picks up the tiny targets?
I have a coin in my test bed that i can barely get in disc 2 tone, factory gain
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Keith, in disc, 2 tone or deep, isat on zero gives me more bars, isat on 10 gives me less bars, what isat setting in all metal gives the correct mineralisation in disc???
Im pretty much resigned to the fact that in mineralised ground the standard coil isn't going to cut it, the nel is my new stock coil and it still maintaines good separation, i can live with that, it did find me a cracking
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While I've mostly enjoyed using my R2 to date im now really getting bugged off with lack of depth with this unit in mineralised ground, with stock coil.
So i have for the past 3 weeks or so been using the nel tornado and it's really helped, it seems to lose less depth in ground over the stock coil, pulled out targets at 10 inch in 3-4 bar soil and weirdly in the same ground the nel rea
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