Time Ranger extreme modification/addon here.

**Zendalar** · Mar 30, 2010, 05:37 AM

Sorry if this offends that I posted this to one other forum..but here goes, and also, sorry about the big picture..

Everybody knows that discrimination stalls or bogs the performance of time ranger.

Well, this was my main reason to start build totally new metal detector.

But now it seems that some parts of the metal detecting circuitry are not adequate and some parts might violate some patents (or so I am told), so therefore I slightly rethought the idea.

I made the ultimate modification to Bounty Hunter Time Ranger (This idea can be adapted to almost any modern metal detector)

When using discrimination effective scanning time slows down, but everybody knows that Time ranger has the speed when in NON discriminating mode.

Solution: Completely bypass the discrimination and handle the discrimination with other processor.

PROs:

- Discrimination speed is FAST, and I mean faster than any other metal detector in the market.
- Completely programmable database ( for example different country coins)
- Find logging
- SD memory card (2GB, 4GB,, you name it) filesystem completely transferrable to a PC.
- Discrimination "logic" completely programmable
- New display, with backlight, graphic or basic LCD.
- Completely programmable sounds/alerts, even with MP3/wav if needed
- Extended battery life, because internal speaker is disabled and now this thing is powered with LIPO batteries
- USB connection
- etc etc...

- Open source (donations accepted of course)

- Software...well, did I mention its programmable

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- Result analysis

Future plans (very soon):
GPS -> Upload to google maps for example

Well...here are some preliminary shots, main processor in this case is Bounty Hunter Time Rangers own.

This image tells something, took the pictures laying down on the sofa and running some EURO coins through it, and couple silver items.
So basically it identifies the underground target (or target type if the result is not in the database for example) without digging it up.

HOPEA means silver and KUPARI is copper, the propability of the finds is not yet shown, but more likely target is shown in CAPS.

(Some parts of the image are in Finnish language)

Can't wait to snow to melt.

If you have any questions, post here or mail me: metaldetectorATkovalantie.fi

I will post images of the hardware and will propably share the source code also as soon as I get this thing rocking and enclosured.