SanMan
Bronze Member
- Apr 9, 2012
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- Detector(s) used
- AT Pro, AT Max, AT Gold - Tesoro Euro Sabre - Tesoro Bandido II uMax - Troy X2 - Tesoro Stingray - Mojave - Fisher 1280X- Fisher 1235X - and many more.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
My Simplex arrived a couple of days before Christmas.
I've taken it out and spent some good hours searching with it.
There's a walking path that makes it way around a local park,
I'm a sand guy and I don't go in the grass that often.
But I figured that targets could be along the path, either side, in the grass.
Very mineralized here, machine said 89. something to 93.
My friend Walt, who teaches gold finding in Arizona, told me some numbers to look for.
He said 22 for nickels, my readings were more 24 / 25.
First find was three coins in a hole.
Next was a 1 dollar coin
(the reading was 90 / 91)
I mad my way around the park.
Flattened steel bottle caps were one thing that could fool the system.
But, if sweep it in a number of directions, the numbers would vary enough to tell you, "not a coin"
I drove to a number of places.
Checked some more grass, wood chips, and sand.
I was out for many hours.
Here is what I scurried up,........
And the trash,........
Numbers
Pennies seemed to be 75 /76
Nickles looked to be 24 /25
Dimes were reading 80 / 81
Quarters came in 90 /91
Dollar coins read 90 /91
All the trash
Those flattened steel bottle caps try for a 90 or so number,....
but the number won't stay stable, but some are too close to call.
Those pull tabs with two holes, the ones people break off and toss,.....
They often gave a "double beep", and were a bit louder than average signals.
In about every case a bad target could not hold consistent numbers.
Evaluation
Good machine.
A little heavier than a common Tesoro.
Seems to be sensitive to small targets.
The coil is bigger than I usually use in parks
Not too bad around poles, which was a surprise
"Severe" interference with the TRX pinpointer and Garrett Propointer
Perhaps a Notka unit at 11.6KHz, instead of 12KHz would help.
SanMan
I've taken it out and spent some good hours searching with it.
There's a walking path that makes it way around a local park,
I'm a sand guy and I don't go in the grass that often.
But I figured that targets could be along the path, either side, in the grass.
Very mineralized here, machine said 89. something to 93.
My friend Walt, who teaches gold finding in Arizona, told me some numbers to look for.
He said 22 for nickels, my readings were more 24 / 25.
First find was three coins in a hole.
Next was a 1 dollar coin
(the reading was 90 / 91)
I mad my way around the park.
Flattened steel bottle caps were one thing that could fool the system.
But, if sweep it in a number of directions, the numbers would vary enough to tell you, "not a coin"
I drove to a number of places.
Checked some more grass, wood chips, and sand.
I was out for many hours.
Here is what I scurried up,........
And the trash,........
Numbers
Pennies seemed to be 75 /76
Nickles looked to be 24 /25
Dimes were reading 80 / 81
Quarters came in 90 /91
Dollar coins read 90 /91
All the trash
Those flattened steel bottle caps try for a 90 or so number,....
but the number won't stay stable, but some are too close to call.
Those pull tabs with two holes, the ones people break off and toss,.....
They often gave a "double beep", and were a bit louder than average signals.
In about every case a bad target could not hold consistent numbers.
Evaluation
Good machine.
A little heavier than a common Tesoro.
Seems to be sensitive to small targets.
The coil is bigger than I usually use in parks
Not too bad around poles, which was a surprise
"Severe" interference with the TRX pinpointer and Garrett Propointer
Perhaps a Notka unit at 11.6KHz, instead of 12KHz would help.
SanMan
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