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    Headphones

    Koss R80 with the model in which the cord can be disconnected from the headphones themselves (if you ever have a cord problem, just replace the cord for a couple of bucks). Since they are Koss, they carry a lifetime warranty (you pay I think about five or six bucks shipping fee for a factory...
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    pull tabs

    If this works for you, Rob, OK. But I ALWAYS detect around the shade trees near a ballfield....that's where the girls with the jewelry sit watching the boys play football. Sure, I dig up pull tabs, but I also find a lot of clad and the gold. Matter of fact, my best away-from-the-beach jewelry...
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    Headphones really Necessary

    If you are a beep-dig hunter, you can probably hunt without them. But if you really want to hear what your target sounds like they are a must. Yes, they are hot, but if it's cool your're after you can always stay home in the air conditioning. I've tried ear buds; they are cooler but just...
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    4th of July hunt:super:

    Is that part of an Army Marksman badge? Sure looks like it. If it is, it's probably silver, too.
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    Well back to the XLT for awhile

    I'm surely not the expert, but I think all coils do "go bad". The problem is that the V3i is so super-tuned that any deterioration in the coil causes the machine to malfunction, whereas many less sensitive, less carefully nulled machines don't even see the problem.....this is not from Whites -...
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    Things I've noticed...

    You're about 99 percent right. I have had a couple, though, when I just knew it HAD to be a ring. One was a small (about a size 5 or 6) 18k ring with a small emerald. It read a solid 17 VDI and didn't bounce at all, and it sounded so SMOOTH. I just KNEW it was a gold ring. (Course, I've had...
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    Things I've noticed...

    You've nailed it. Simple, round targets produce a smooth return signal and a pretty stable VDI, while the more intricate (read: the more the possible paths for eddy currents!) the target the more harmonics are in the return signal, and thus more bounching VDIs and/or gritzy sound. I found a...
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    VDI of Silver??? Better Think Twice! (Part 1)

    The low VDIs from the Tiffany ring and box chain are easy to explain. Remember that the receive coil is seeing the return signal from the target, which is generated by the currents induced into the target by the transmit coil. The current path for excited electrons in the ring and the chain...
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    VDI of Silver??? Better Think Twice! (Part 1)

    Most of the silver I've found comes in the dime-quarter VDI area. I tend to trust the VDI more than the "silver" (925 or sterling) labeling. Probably 25% or more of the "silver" jewelry simply isn't silver. Ditto for gold - and I'm not talking about gold electroplate or gold filled, either...
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    What is the most important thing to know for the beginner first time out.

    I think the first thing I learned is that this is a HOT machine, and it's a good idea to keep the gain low for a while. Also, be careful to note how a target shows up in the bar graph in pinpoint....You'll never confuse a bottle cap for a quarter once you've learned this. Other than that, be...
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    Starting to get fed up with V3i.... when on beach

    I use mine at the beach often. I had problems on a few occasions when I simply could not get it to ground balance over the wet sand, and finally settled for a half-balanced setup and hunted with it anyway - turning the gain down a bit. Back up to the dry sand and rebalanced - no problems at...
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    Help with ID please...

    Sure looks like jacket button from Vietnam-era Army class-A green uniform -- but those were gold-tone. Maybe from the less-worn (and much more rare) US Army dress blue uniforms of the same era? Gil
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    Looking of a non operational V3 or similar for hard case model.

    The case that I would purchase would be one that would hold my V3i and a couple of other coils WITHOUT breaking the detector down except maybe for the bottom rod piece with the coil still attached to it. That might make a longer case than most would like, but I'm too lazy to completely...
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    Salt water sand ... low tide hunting ...

    The D2 works fine for salt water beaches (use salt water compensate). I still prefer a pulse machine for low-tide hunting, though, because you have to dig EVERY target when salt beach hunting, anyway, or you'll lose a lot of small gold. At salt beaches the ability of a VLF machine to ID...
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    WORKED A HUGE CUT...

    Hey Ferd, that's not a cut...it's a step. It's when they are over seven or eight feet high and you get concerned about how you're gonna get back up when the tide comes back in you have a HUGE cut. LOL. Nice pictures.
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    Polar Plot: What do the x and y axis represent?

    The phase angle shift of the returned signal in each of the three frequencies. The angle between the horizontal axis the the returned signal is representative of the phase shift. A non-ferrous target will normally produce a signal in the upper right quadrant. A vertical response (overlaying...
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    publicity advice needed

    I once wrote an article "letters to the editor" for our local newspaper in response to an article that had appeared a few days earlier about metal detecting at our local beach. I provided pictures of some of the trash I had removed (I do go far out of my way to scoop up all the pieces of a...
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    Ok. I have a question about this new machine......

    Its simple enough. You can recognize a dime (usually), a quarter (most of the time), a nickel (most of the time), or a penny (except for those half destroyed zinc pennies, which you can still recognize most of the time), but.... For every easily recognized target, no matter how good your...
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    Multiple Frequencies vs. One - The advantages?

    my two cents... first, you sacrifice some depth in using multiple frequencies over a single frequency. Whites explains that that is because the transmit power is divided among the three frequencies rather than concentrating all the available power into a single frequency. Fortunately, with...
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    Pin pointing without Audio

    OK, I may be way off base here, but...Magic, if you use audio discrimination (set some of your vdi numbers to tone "zero"), maybe (??) when trying to pinpoint your detector is locking on to a target with a vdi set to a tone zero rather than the one you hit in discriminate? I know this is apples...
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