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    Is there a Low Battery Alarm?

    Eyes just aren't what they once were. I have had the same problem and I can't read the status line. Is there a way to increase its size like you can with some other items on the display?
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    Battery problem

    Alkaline cells in your back up pack will last longer than NIMHs. I know the charts say otherwise, but a good brand of alkaline batteries like the "coppertop" ones (no brand names here, lol) will outlast the charge on the rechargeables. Fortunately, if you have a full charge on your NIMH, it...
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    strange silver find

    I'm green with envy. Got a couple of large English pennies from that era, but no silver. Isn't it interesting that a 170-year-old coin looks so much better than that year-or-two year old US clad? Our money is not only becoming worthless, it looks like it, too. :ranting:
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    R.I.P. Two caches found???

    Strange things are a happenin'....lol This brings to mind a club hunt I was in a few years back -- our club was having its monthly planted-coin hunt at a local park, but of course everyone hunts for the natural targets before and after the planted coin hunt. One of our club members got a good...
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    V3i in P/P ????

    Not necessarily, Mic. I read one time that if you couldn't pick up a target in PP but it showed up just fine in discriminate, your machine could be out of ground balance. I've had that happen on occasion with my XLT and didn't know what was wrong with me or the machine. The next time it did...
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    V3i in P/P ????

    If your machine is in need of ground balance, you might not pick up the target in pp. I don't know the technical reason, but I know that if you get a good signal in discriminate (motion) (ac) mode, then can't seem to pick it up when you try to pinpoint, a re-groundbalance will usually cure the...
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    V3 does it again

    Nice find, Magic, but when I looked at the pix I didn't think it was an engagement ring. Looks like it might be amethyst or maybe even a color-change sapphire. Probably just a nice coctail ring or maybe a birthstone. You're the man with the V3!
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    Claddagh Irish Engagement/Wedding Ring

    I've found a few silver ones like that, thought it was some kind of religious group. Thanks for the enlightenment. Nice find.
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    WOW..... THAT's A BIG ROCK

    That square bottom on the ring is a Tiffany design (to keep the ROCK upright on the finger). Maybe, just maybe, you've hit the jackpot!
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    Newbies 1st V3i Question

    ....and maybe target size has something to do with it. Curious - if you reversed the positions of the two coins would the result still be the same? What if you used two identical coins?
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    V3i Advanced Users Guide

    This is the best information I have seen on how the V3 works. I can't wait to see additional chapters added. I am learning more with every paragraph I read. Super kudos to the author, and thanks for allowing us to profit from a work in progress. Gil
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    5 HOURS of hunting. THEN BAM.... RING.....

    A very nice find. Are you sure it's silver? A silver ring usually VDI's in the 80+ range. If those accent stones are diamonds it would seem more likely the ring is gold, platinum, rhodium or platinum - but I do see markings inside the ring (but can't read 'em) so have to assume it's marked...
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    questions on gold with the v3

    Oops, not to dampen your understanding, but the VDI does NOT necessarily go up with a higher percentage of gold in your target. The VDI will go up with an increase in the size of a gold target (more grams) somewhat, but what really affects VDI in gold targets is the alloying metal, as I stated...
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    questions on gold with the v3

    Five metals commonly alloyed with gold are 1) silver 2) nickel 3) platinum 4) copper and 5) rhodium. (Rhodium and platinum, being more valuable than gold, much less often that the other three.) If a ring of approximately the same dimensions was alloyed with silver it would ring a much higher...
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    Few more from the old house...

    Nice finds, Magic. That lure looks like an early Hawaiian Wiggler. Might be collectable. I'm old enough to remember having caught fish with a similar one.
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    Common program

    Thanks, Rob.
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    Common program

    I understand that one of the functions of the "common" program is that you may load things in there that you wish to be incorporated into several of your programs without having to do each one separately, like volume settings and maybe vco or tone id. But could someone talk this feeble-minded...
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    Busted piggy bank

    Don't know what you'd call it, but my back said it was a stupid endeavor. lol.
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    Busted piggy bank

    Using the V3i to snap up a few clad coins next to a local swap meet yesterday. Got a signal that overloaded the detector - thought somebody has buried a hub cap here I guess - so raised the machine up until I was able to get an ID signal - penny! So, I began digging. At about an inch deep...
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    :pulltab:Dig them pull tabs!

    Good going. BTW, if that Zippo is damaged, are you aware that they have a LIFETIME warrany, and Zippo will repair or replace a damaged one for a very small fee. Good AMERICAN company.
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