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motohed

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Well yeah if you look at it that way. I guess every target could ring in the opposite of everyone else's. But it makes it hard to join in on a conversation when someone asks what it rings up as.

Yeah , I didn't think about that as much when I made the statment . I'm am some what hearing impaired and had to change some tones too work better for me . I guess , I spoke out of turn in that case , sorry .
 

Jason in Enid

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Gold is a good conductor of electricity, but we aren't talking about moving electrons along a length of wire with metal detecting. Metal detecting is all about the ability of an item to be inductively charged by the RF signal the detector puts out, and then emit that charge back. In this regard, gold is poor which is why we say it is a "low conductor".
 

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Well yeah if you look at it that way. I guess every target could ring in the opposite of everyone else's. But it makes it hard to join in on a conversation when someone asks what it rings up as.

Exactly what I was thinking. Generally, from low to high, you have iron, foil, nickel, (gold), zinc, copper, silver. I would find it quite odd for gold to ring higher than a low/mid tone.
 

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