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    Next to Last Word Power Supply

    Hi Guys: I put together other peoples comments and came up with a description of the problem for me. Some engineers told me the detector runs on a recommended voltage of 12 volts. It can pull 1.5 amps briefly at startup but runs normally on .11 amps. When it sees a target it goes up to .13...
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    Explorer Power Supply

    I have noticed over the years that both Whites and Minelab detectors work much better when the batteries are very new. I get an extra 4 to 6 inches and the signals are crisp and easy to hear. So I want to construct an alternate supply for my minelab explorer. I am sure I can modify the...
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    Your Best Place Ever

    I like everyone else wants to find a honey hole of a coin or relic place somewhere and wonder how to do it. So I want to ask everyone how you came to find the best place you ever detected? For me I was looking for an old circa 1850 tollgate on an old road and while I didn't find the tollgate...
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    Hip Power Supply

    I still like the idea of a hip mounted power supply. Say get two of those coppertop lantern batteries and wire then to produce 12 volts and then run the cable up to the headphone cable and then to the back of the explorer. Modify a battery pack to take a plug in and then never worry about...
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    TollGate Research

    Well in preparation for next year I am starting to research tollroads in my local area. I will look at old maps adding each tollgate I find to a list which includes the location, date, tollroad name, and map name. Then after checking all the maps I can find and a few other sources I will start...
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    Christmas Greeting

    http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html just click.
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    What do they really cost

    Just curious. What do you think it really costs to make a minelab, not including overhead, research, advertising. Just the materials. I would guess about $50. but it depends on what you include.
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    Leaves Static

    I had some trouble with my explorer Thursday. There were leaves around and I was pushing them out of the way as I swung. My depth was poor v poor and it did not id a wheathead at 2 inches. Said it was 10 and gave various numbers. Other coins were similar. But I did find more targets where there...
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    Batteries Expensive

    Since its raining I am thinking of other stuff. I was wondering if it would be possible to use an alternate power supply for these detectors with a cable that ran from a hip mount battery pack to the headphone cable and down with it into the existing battery pack. Of course a hole in the back...
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    Last Month's Finds

    Here are some of my last months finds. I left out the 400 plus clad coins cause I bought the local park staff a couple dozen donuts as a thank you. I've made a lot of holes in that park and no one complained. 1902 half 1964 and 1954 quarters 1943 44 44 40 mercs 1950 dime and 17 wheates. 2...
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    KCo

    Well they did great for me. I had one of those Darth Vader Pinpointers they sell that I got with my Minelab and when I got around to finally taking it out of the bubblewrap the darn thing didn't work. Boy was I hissed. I complained via email about it and let themknow how upset I was with it not...
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    Interesting Weekend

    I found little this weekend but a couple dozen pennies, a few quarters, and a LOT of trash. I was carefully prying a coin out of the ground when it became stuck behind a small root. I applied a lot more pressure than I should have and the root broke. Would you believe that penny flew up and hit...
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    A different View

    My view of how a detector works is that it samples a bucket of dirt under the coil to see if there is a signal consistent with a coin or other target and responds accordingly. It does not really look at individual targets but considers everything in the bucket at once. So if there is a pull tab...
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    Nukbers Sum

    Well I skipped some good coins yesterday. I set the gain up to 8 and the sensitivity on 22 manual and passed over several 8 29s cause in the past they were junk. After hunting 3 hours I decided to dig one and it was a dime at 3 inches. ARG! I went right over many good finds. I also skipped...
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    Gone Diggin

    So what are you doing still reading. GO DIG! Have a little fun before you die. Today could be your last day so get a move on. Whats the worse that could happen? GO DIG!
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    Advise

    I tested my Exp II on a silver dime and a silver quarter today. I set my detector at -12 iron mask with deep on and sensitivity at 20 manual. At about 10 inches the detector nulled but no numbers appeared. At about 8 I got some numbers that jumped around a lot. Under 8 I got an exact match on...
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    Todays Finds

    Found 11 pennies and one was a 1936 wheatie, Also found 2 dimes and one nickle. And one silver ring. Says United States Army w red stone. I expect it is not a west point ring as it is silver and marked DB Sterling inside and the ring is made to look big and solid but the inside face is dished to...
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    MUD

    I tried to dig after three days off yesterday at the local park. The first 4 inches of dirt were okay but wet however from there on down it got wetter and wetter. By the time I got to ten inches I just grabbed handfuls of mud out of the bottom of the hole and used my digging tool to scrape the...
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    Depth Improved

    Well I am getting better depth now but I did it differently. I used conductivity and the standard coin discrimination pattern. I upped the gain to 8 and increased sensitivity to 20 and this started bringing up pennies from 7 inches where I am hunting. It is a big improvement over the usual 3...
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    3 Hours in the Park

    Okay, after seeing all the silver this is embarassing. I found 93 cents inclad w no wheats or silver. I'll try a different spot today.
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