what am I doing wrong

[Frog66]

When out this morning and found a nice ringing so i started to dig. ?After about 8 inches i hit a piece of foil. ?My ACE 250 was giving me a definenent dime reading! ?What am I doing wrong?

Kim

 

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[lonewolfe]

Nothing,

the machine isn't going to be 100% accurate (especially) if/when you're relying on the "screen/read out".

It's only a "guide" more or less.

Sometimes the machine will be fooled by what it sees based on size, shape, compostion of the metal, etc. etc. etc.

"When in doubt - dig".

HH

Lonewolfe

 

[omnicognic]

Exactly what lonewolfe said! could easily have been a ring with a fat diamond on it!

 

[stoney56]

Could you have missed the dime in the dirt? A clad dime is small and does tend to blend in real well with the soil. I have no doubt what lonewolf and omni says as I've had that happen as well.

 

[gregl01]

Hi Frog, I agree with LW on this. My ACE will read the same if it is hard packed foil or a ball shape. You have to listen closely though, the signal is usually different. You'll know after time and practice!!!
HH
Greg

 

[Monty]

My ACE loves dimes and will ring one up like it is going to a fire! I only use it for coin shooting and I discriminate out foil. Even without discriminating out foil it sounds different on my ACE, usually ringing up as a penny rather than a dime on my machine. Using a burried dime and a similar piece of foil, try backing off your sensitivity a notch at a time until you can hear the difference. Another thing I noticed just recently is that if you are detecting in grass with a heavy dew you may have to back your sensitivity way down to about two notches. The wet grass acts almost like water sometime...sometimes it don't . You just have to expriment at the time and it only takes a few minutes to figure it out. I read in one book on detecting to think of sensitivity as depth, but with it turned way down I am still getting targets at 6". Of course I have no way of knowing if I am missing some unless I turn the sensitivity up and go back over the same area. In my experimenting, most of what I am missing is trash. JIM

 

[Harley digs it]

Hehe I just got my ace 250 yesterday, and its my first detector. I had the same problem. Was in all metal and had the sens at full strength had a strong ring on the display, I was tickled. Just to be sure I dug an extra wide hole around the target because I didn't want to miss it. I dug a foot deep and didn't find anything but a broken bottle there that had a bottle cap beside it lol.

So I decided to go and try it at about 1/2 strength and bang right on the money identified the bottle cap by the detector. So I tried this out on the rest of my finds as well and it worked good for me I think anyway. Just a thought.

 

[mike98000]

And the 250 loves anything round!! If it is round it will ring. I dont get falses on foil much, but if they are a little round ball, ding ding ding. Of course pull tabs will hit like a nickel also.

 

[dudes2112]

Mine likes the older fat caps that I'm guessing would have come from a two liter pop. Those give great penny and dime signals, usually dime.

Dudes

 

[Frog66]

thank you for all your responses! I'll just keep trying!

Have a wonderful July 4th and be careful.

Kim