??Ace 250 Question??

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Hello All...
i just wanted get some feedback from you people using the Ace250..I have been using it for about 7 months now..and have been able to use it in many different places..Beach..Old Farms..Parks..Schools..
Anyway..I have been lucky enough to find 2 gold charms (sitting on top of ground) and roughly 50-60 dollars in change.. But out of all the change i do find..i never found any Silver??..and found maybe 5 nickels??..I feel like im missing something ..i see alot of people saying to dig every target..but sometimes it seems like i could stay in the same place for hours plowing up hundreds of soda tabs..But can never find any jewlery...I was starting to wonder if i should take the next step in detectors....
My question is ..Am i just being a baby about this or should i really be digging every beep..i have figured out how my machine works for coins..and how it can be decieving sometimes..but i cant figure out the Gold/Nickel findings..

Hope this made sense to somebody out there

thanks

[Shortstack]

Sounds like you're doing pretty good. Just be aware of 2 things. First, you won't find jewelry everytime you go out; and, second, if you ain't digging poptops, you won't be finding rings. That's just the facts. Wire rings, poptops, and nickels have very, very close reaction factors registering on you detector. Those might not be the exact technical words, but the meaning is the same.

I'll throw a little bit of trivia info in here. Broken rings will not react as well as the same ring that is NOT broken. The magnetic eddies aren't as strong with a broken ring, so the broken ring will read differently on a TID meter.

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Haha.. Thats kinda what i was worried about...I went to the lake today it it was just jumping around like crazy..and i saw the old pop tabs everywhere..I didnt know if other detectors are better at discriminating that sorta thing..

And i try not to think im gonna find a fortune evetime i i go out

but that feeling never goes away

thanks for the input thou

[spartacus53]

I only signal I ignore on the 250 is the foil.... Trust me, you can cancel that on out if you want. All the others I dig.

[Shortstack]

The Minelab guys CLAIM they can ID rings, but I don't believe it. But, for a machine with such a big price tag, it should dig and clean the dang things, too.


I just thought of one thing you might try to help a little bit. If the poptops you are finding are mostly the same style, see which side of the icon the indicator is hitting and use that info to help you decide to dig or not. If you can borrow a gold wire ring to test with your machine and see where it hits on the screen, maybe it'll help you to decide. The safest thing to do though, is to just dig them all.

[George (MN)]

All good posts but I'd like to add I had 4 Ace 250s. I rejected iron, foil, & pulltabs. Never found gold & never found a nickel. Maximum depth for me was about 4" tops, digging only probable coins. No silver found. Parks & schools get detected alot, and relandscaped every decade usually, so silver may be deep. Even private yards may have been relandscaped with fill dirt & previously detected.

I go out with a $600 detecor to a nearby school or park & often get under $1. But I've only been at this 34+ years & used a few dozen detectors. Guess I don't know much yet, maybe I'll still learn more. HH, George (MN)

[WIT]

I hunt in jewelry mode all the time because it stil lets you know if there's a coin there.

Also, I dig everything that gives a SOLID SIGNAL with both sweeps, left to right. If it's 2 different tones, it's probably junk.

I learned both of those "tips" from the ACE 250 "Tips and Tricks" thread on this forum and they work. This is my first year doing this and I've found a 22K gold necklace, 10K gold ring w/diamonds and a few silver rings, 2 silver coins and a bunch of other things too numerous to mention. Although I will be upgrading my machine for next year, I will still use the ACE 250 because it really does work.

WIT

[George (MN)]

One thing I noticed on the Ace 250 is that modern tabs ID as nickels, so no way to get even nickels without digging tabs. At least people know the place they are detecting probably has nickels, so they might agree to dig tabs, causing them to eventually dig a gold ring.

If you don't want to dig modern tabs, you need to reject nickels.

Also Ace 250 depth is only about average, unless one uses a bigger coil. Most public schoolyards & city parks have been detected by someone who has a great detector & knows how to use it, how to interpret iffy signals, or they dig them all.

You have a little more chance of finding silver coins in heavily detected areas if you use a small coil in very trashy areas, or a big coil in lower trash areas. I just got an Ace 250 with 10x14 Excelerator coil that goes much deeper than the stock coil, very stable, good IDs at depth. Best wishes, George (MN)

[ivan salis]

metal detector sort by "electrical conductivity"-- sadly nickles, aluminum and pulltabs and gold items are very close on the electrical conductivity scale * so close in fact that the 8 block ID system of a ace 250 can not seperate them one from the other

now ID type machines that use a numbers display --say 0 to 99 --like the delta 4000 by teknetics ($279) have 100 "slots" into which to sort the finds vs just 8 blocks on the ace 250 -- so it can seperate things ---like (58) for nickles and 10 k items --( 60 )or so for many pulltabs and (67 )for 14 k items

[shankster]

Good post on the ace 250 .. me and my brother have a 250 and I have only found 2 silvers and he has found alot of silver coins ! I found because i hunt parks and tot lots more and he searchs homes for sale and finds homes built 1890s to 1940s and detects the ones he gets permission . He says they havent been detected like the parks ! He hasnt found gold yet and i found a wedding band 14 k . HH john