Hey guys, just got me ace 250 in today and decided to take it out to the beach, my problem is the detector picks up every piece of trash out there, is there anyway to not get hits on the random junk>? lol
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Welcome to the wonderful world of MD'ing. Your Ace 250 has a "discrimination" button (+/-) and an ELIM(ination) button that works in conjunction with the discrimination button, to add or remove the segmented discrimination markings on the display. Yoou also have a mode button to allow you to set a pre-determined mode, like "coins" for example, that have discrimination set already....my problem is the detector picks up every piece of trash out there, is there anyway to not get hits on the random junk>? lol
I was out today with my 250 and I've found that the signals just jump around like crazy. I never seem to get a clear hit on anything. It'll jump from the coin end of the spectrum, back to iron, then to aluminum/gold and then to a coin signal. The cleanest signals I got were pull tabs. I was also dinging every other step in that same fashion, so I'm guessing it was mostly shredded foil wrappers. Any hints for the bouncing signals?
Sounds as though you have a trash-filled site. You can set the disc/elim on the detector to get rid of a lot of trash and also set the sensitivity lower. Default is two bars from the top. Back it down another notch or two. Then, sweep the coil slower and also make shorter strokes to curb the number of false hits. Make sure you don't lift the coil at the end of your sweep, that creates false positives. If you set the machine to jewelry mode and disc/elim iron and foil manually, you will get fewer tones when sweeping over junk, but the arrows will still display the junk target.
so i went out to the beach today and it wasnt very good, i picked up alot of tabs, aluminum slag and shredded cans. i tried all sorts of different modes and used custom to eliminate the 4 or 5 left notches and still picked up nothing but pull tabs but they were coming up as coins. idk maby im just doing something wrong.