Best detector for cache in house walls?

[photo-master]

I've been looking at the Garrett Wall Scanner "he smallest of all the scanners. Designed to search for gold, silver, and jewelry in old houses, barns, walls, book safes, etc." http://www.kellycodetectors.com/garr...-handhelds.htm.

I'm wondering what is the best hand held detector to find a hidden cache in a wall or fence, but I dont want to find nail heads, I want gold or silver. I was wondering what you guys might think or recommend in the way of a detector.

[Mayan Hunter]

Well photo-master, I'm surprized you haven't heard about digital technology that can photograph the electromagnetic energy that gold, silver, lead, and other metals produce in various colors.

[GrayCloud]

Okay Mayan Hunter, Talk to me like I am a six year old and explain this technology. No I am not six, but I am 61 so grasping new dang fangle technology is a challenge.

[photo-master]

Well photo-master, I'm surprized you haven't heard about digital technology that can photograph the electromagnetic energy that gold, silver, lead, and other metals produce in various colors.

Myan What's up with that? I believe your talking about X- ray or infra red, or some form there of. I am not aware of any real science that uses "electromagnetic energy" that gold or silver will produce various colors. The problem here is most of us do not have 50K to spend on 21st century search equipment. For some other technology you may be speaking of that I am not aware of that makes metal (gold, silver) excited through photons or heated by infrared to produce any signature/color I can not say. However I can tell you it would have to be so powerful the radiation would give you cancer. --That is unless your thinking of Physics that read oras?

Information on millimeter wave scanners
http://autos.aol.com/article/x-ray-truck/ or
http://www.infowars.com/4th-amendmen...t-the-streets/

[Frankn]

There is a device that is sold to police departments that can see thru walls, but I believe it works on infrared technology and is very expensive.
I use a Vibra-Tector Which is about 12" long and has a 5" coil. It can detect to 6", most walls are 4". You can tell the nails by the pattern. The unit is a PI unit so it has good penetration. It is actually built for under water searches.
I also have a stud finder that uses ultrasonic technology so it can find non metalic masses in the wall also, but it is a royal pain to use because varrying thickness of materials cause falseing. Frank

[Ism]

Well photo-master, I'm surprized you haven't heard about digital technology that can photograph the electromagnetic energy that gold, silver, lead, and other metals produce in various colors.

Photo-

Some say that by placing certain filters over your digital camera lense you can photograph electromagnetic auras around metals. I wouldn't know if it works, but I do know that your camera can see infrared emissions. Point an IR remote control at your digital camera and press any button on the remote while looking at the viewer screen. You will see the IR light flash, something your naked eye cannot see.

[Frankn]

I take ,it was a joke, because gold has no electromagnetic energy.
Yes, I do photography work and I use to photograph buildings to show where the heat losses were. I did this in the film era and there was special infrared film. Most Digital cameras pick up infrared light, but most have a built in filter that filteres it out to a large degree. You can buy cameras that pickup infrared or there are companies that convert cameras by removing the filter. Infrared images are different. They kind of reverse the contrast. a good example is trees are white.

[maipenrai]

Your right about seeing the light from a remote, through the digi camera lense, didnt notice that before, learn something every day!

[Frankn]

When we stop learning something new every day, they plant us!

[photo-master]

Hey guys as far as the infrared filter and a digital/film camera goes that is a bunch of quackery/BS. Akin to the ghost hunters using a video camera with IR LED's to try to find ghosts. IMHO

No matter what filter you put on a camera visible light would still need to strike the object, it simply will not reveal anything under the ground. It is possible to see metal objects "MAYBE" an inch under topsoil, but they would need to be heated by the sun and have a different temp, then the camera would have to record that. In a house near impossible. Basically don't waste your time or money chasing ghosts and making a fool of yourself...

Thanks, HH

[Frankn]

photomaster, I hate to say this but visible light is hot required to get an image. infrared light is not visible to you, but it is visible to the sensor in a camera or scope. There are night vision scopes that can see in total darkness. They have an infrared light source. The filter I mentioned in prior post sits on the sensor, not in front of the lens. Heat waves escaping from a building will show up on infrared film.

[photo-master]

photomaster, I hate to say this but visible light is hot required to get an image. infrared light is not visible to you, but it is visible to the sensor in a camera or scope. There are night vision scopes that can see in total darkness. They have an infrared light source. The filter I mentioned in prior post sits on the sensor, not in front of the lens. Heat waves escaping from a building will show up on infrared film.

Frankn, TRUE that infrared is NOT part of the visible light spectrum; thus its name infra-red, above red or wavelengths longer than that of visible light. Night vision uses near-infrared or ultraviolet radiation as well as "intensification" to to see in a dark environment. Also TRUE that buildings, trees, and humans will show up on infrared film (700 nm to about 900 nm), FLIR, and digital thermal imaging. --But objects (coins, gold, silver) under ground or behind walls will NOT unless we are talking about hot water pipes, heating duct work, Etc. That was my point, sorry if I did not verbalize it well.

P.S. I thought you may have been talking about this utter nonsense:

[Frankn]

Photo, first let me say I am legally deaf, That is I can't hear above 1KH so I couldn't hear the sound of your Video. But from what I gathered from the video images, I would agree that this guy is full of it. Those coins were about 6" down so they probably never even felt the heat from the sun at 3:20 which was indicated on his watch. Gold does not hold heat well, that is one of the reasons it is such a good electric conductor. An iron object in a desert area just after sundown would probably show up well on thermal imaging. Iron holds heat longer. I think the guy is just out to sell his book.

[photo-master]

So Frankn have you ever found anything worth wild hidden behind a wall using your Vibra-Tector?

[Frankn]

Yes, but you never know who is listening.