The T2 responding to steel bottle caps like high coins is really the only wart the T2 has. Yes....there are a couple of unsightly moles but this is the only wart.
Really been bothering me but I hadn't time to do anything about it between work, chores and church activities.
But tonight I sat down and started air testing. Those of you that know me know that I really get into my air testing
I went through the tub I keep all the junk in that I keep just for testing purposes and found a steel bottle cap and started testing.
I left the disc setting at the preset level of 10, raised the sensitivity to 80.
I had taped the bottle cap onto the two foot wooden ruler I use just for air testing to make sure I can replicate sweep speeds and began sweeping the cap over the coil. I oriented the bottle cap both right side up and up side down. In every mode the cap would read in the zinc range with bounces up into the dime+ range, or if I stayed close enough to the coil to stay within the large signal range, it would stay up in the dime range.
I tried various sweep speeds, edge pass sweeps etc. with out any repeatable success. Then I tried bobbing the cap over the coil. That made a significant change. While sweeping can cause the cap to read as anywhere from zinc to high coin, bobbing move the id down into the nickel and tab range
Whats this?
Both right side up and upside down, bobbing the cap reduced the reading down into the tab and nickel range.
Well....put the cap on the floor and bobbed the coil over the cap with the same results. Is this significant or is this normal? So I took a dime. Sweeping the dime accross the coil gives a 82 reading. Bobbing the coil over the dime resulted in different readings depending upon the distance from the coil. Within the large signal range, the dime stayed in the 80s. Decreasing the signal strength with distance resulted in the id dropping down to 79-78-77 readings. The dime dropped a max of 5 numbers.
Bobbing the coil over the cap resulted in readings down into the mid 50s to mid 60s. Consistantly. The cap dropped a max of 25 numbers.
All audio modes worked the same.
The secret to identifying steel bottle caps is to simply take a moment to center the coil and bob the coil a time or two over the target and see how far the number drops. If it stays in the zinc range up...its a coin. If it drops down into the tab range, its a steel bottle cap.
Do you have to do this on every high coin signal? No way... just when you are hunting in a steel bottle cap infested area.
Did someone ask for some wart remover?
I'll talk about the moles later after folks get used to a wartless machine
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