ACE 250 arrives tommorow

[willybe]

I receive my first MD tomorrow and the pin pointer arrives Friday. I am 49 and fell like a kid at Christmas. makes me want to play hooky from work, but UPS arrives about time i get home usually.

Any advise on breaking it in. things I should check. ect.ect.
Thanks
Bruce

 

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[SC_hunter]

If you can stand the anticipation, read "some" of the manual...ok, I know you won't but just a note. You will love it. When mine was due to arrive, i drove around town looking for the UPS truck..lol Let us know how you do on the test drive and congrats.

 

[sonofadigger]

The best thing is to go out in the yard put some coins down and get a feel for it learn the sounds learn how to pinpoint with it good luck keep us posted

 

[bsloan]

There used to be some good videos here that covered a lot of info. Haven't tried to watch any in a while, I'm on dial up, so it takes 3 days to get today's news to load. I do know you will have fun with the Ace.

Best of luck,
Bill

 

[TerryC]

Good starter machine. I would suggest... log your results. Not the finds but at least the settings for the finds. When you make a good find, log the settings and try to duplicate the finds. Success breads success! Put in at least 100 hours, like the manual says. The SOUND is more important than the display. And having fun is the most important. Good luck! TTC

 

[sandtrout]

TerryC is absolutely right!!! Put in at least 100 hours. Go to Youtube and type in "coin popping". The ACE 250 is good right out of the box but even better with 100 hours of experience on it. Look up my name and read some of my past posts. Also try crazyjarhead. He's great with the 250 and large coil. The finds from my ACE bought me my Garrett Propointer, a sniper coil, a Tesoro Vaquero, another Garrett ProPointer, and a bunch of misc. stuff related to detecting.

If your hitting local parks, learn the art of CHERRY PICKING! I was at a park that had a huge family event one evening. The next morning I was digging a clad penny that was 5 inches deep and in pretty bad shape when some kids were walking by me about 10' away and stopped and picked up a huge pocket spill of quarters!!! Now...I cherry pick a place first to get what's fallen close to the top. I re-hunt it later to get the stuff that's deeper. You are really going to LOVE the ACE 250. Feel free to ask questions here or with a PM. There's tooooooooo much stuff to put here.