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    I chased a MDer OFF MY BEACH....................

    I agree with nearly everything said here. I will walk 50 yards out of my way to dump my trash apron into a litter barrel sometimes a dozen times during an outing. I DO NOT do it with aluminum cans, though. The places I hunt always have people looking for recycle cans and bottles, so they...
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    First Silver For V3

    A nice looking Merc. What do you think a 2010 dime will look like in 2074? Anyway, nice finds.
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    Coin on Edge

    I think your understanding of near field effect would definitely be appropriate for a pulse induction machine, where the field collapse time is lengthened (and is thus detectable) by a change in inductance of the coil caused by metal within the collapsing field. VLF machines are RF devices by...
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    Coin on Edge

    It isn't rocket science, guys. The electrons in the target are excited by the RF energy sent out by your transmit coil. They tend to spin in a circle in the target, producing their own radio signal which is what your receive coil is waiting to "see". That signal is greatest perpendicular to...
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    Gold times two...

    Nice finds, Magic. Looks like the reddish stone could be tourmaline (just a guess).
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    PROFIT or KARMA... What Would You Do ???

    Our MD club (The West Coasters in Sou Cal) has a program which rewards our member detectorists a $20 check when we are able to locate and return class rings. Yes, I know, they are worth a lot more than that just for the gold melt, but it is good PR for our hobby as well as the right thing to do...
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    Thank you WHITES!

    After my V3i arrived, it was time to send my 15-year-old XLT in for a tune-up. It had been acting strangely, dropping power without warning and requiring a complete restart, reload, and re balance every time it died. But the problem wasn't consistent - it might happen ten times in a row, or go...
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    PROFIT or KARMA... What Would You Do ???

    You did the right thing. I had a similar incident a couple years ago. A found wallet had a little over $300 in cash in it, along with the owner's ID. I managed to track him down and returned it. He was a working guy and had just cashed his check to pay the rent when he lost it. He said he...
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    Minelab Sovereign Elite

    The wife says I have too many detectors. (She's right, of course, but I've managed until now to keep her in doubt.) Anyway, I have decided to let my Minelab Sovereign Elite go. This is in almost like new condition with only very minor cosmetic defects. Here's what's included: Sovereign...
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    High VDI pennies

    Well, turns out my problem was entirely site-specific. When I finally got around to trying some other places I had no problem at all with higher-than-normal VDI numbers. In fact, I dug some deep pennies and they read around 70, just like you'd expect. Guess the problem had to be either the...
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    Why Do My Coins Look Like Crud ???

    Modern clad coins turn to crud in a very short time, even away from a salt beach. The good thing is that they clean up pretty easily. There are probably a thousand recipes for cleaning clad in a tumbler, but here is the one I have discovered that seems to work well: Fill your tumbler...
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    COOL Coil ?

    I'm not a Whites engineer, certainly not an expert on anything, but...common sense to me would indicate that it's probably temperature stability, not necessarily just keeping a coil cool that is desirable. Materials contract and expand with temperature changes, of course, and different...
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    High VDI pennies

    Hi Julien..I don't really know. But I do know that much of the Los Angeles basin, although a very dry climate, has a pretty high water table. The earthquake pros say a lot of the subsoil tends to liquify near a severe quake in areas with a high water table - causing anything built on top of...
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    High VDI pennies

    Hi Larry, am using mostly coin and jewelry program, tweaked just a bit to discriminate out some pull tabs (I still accept 15-20 and 34+ VDIs) and running 80/55 AC/DC with a gain of about 5 or 6. Soil is typical of Sou Cal - basically sandy loam that in times of low humidity turns rock hard...
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    High VDI pennies

    OK, here's the deal. I've had the V3i about a week now and have spent maybe a total of 10 hours on it. I am digging a lot of targets that VDI in the 85-92 range at six to seven inches deep (and that's not an easy task in areas where shovels are a no-no, no evidence of a dig can be left, and...
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    Is there a down to earth explanation

    I wasn't suggesting an owners manual go out with the first prototypes to the field testers. What I was suggesting was that the engineering people provide to the testers a simply stated explanation of what they hoped to provide and accomplish with their design, i.e., how the new prototype...
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    I need some pinpoint help please.

    You needn't swing a long distance to pinpoint your target - only enough to hear the volume fade out - lose the target - in each direction, then find that center point where the target volume is at maximum. You normally incrementally shorten your side-to-side swings as you get closer to center...
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    Is there a down to earth explanation

    I guess I don't understand the thinking behind sending a machine to field testers without any documentation. Don't you think it would be of benefit to those field testers, and eventually the product purchasers, if there was documentation at least stating what the engineers were trying to do...
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    Just how good is this Machine.

    I think it's interesting to note that you said you found out that you didn't need to max out the power to find stuff. My experience has been that if you run your detector very hot, you WILL find deeper targets, BUT you will lose a lot of sensitivity to small targets - especially those with low...
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    Just kinda disappointed

    I'm not a V3 owner (yet), but I have owned many detectors in the past. I think it has been said that it takes at least a hundred hours to learn a machine. This is probably true for a simple one. The V3 appears to be an extremely complicated machine, and I'm thinking it might take years to...
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