Alan Applegate
New member
I thought I'd pass on my experience with the 10x14 Excelerator coil for the Ace, which I bought from Kellyco.
I did the usual reset to factory specs, and did an indoors air test (I had to turn down the sensitivity of course). It wasn't a bit better than the standard 6x9 that came with the Ace 250, and it acted funny to me. When moving coins front to back, it appeared to detect a little further away than it did side to side. A fact not noticed with either stock coil.
When I took it out to my salted coin garden (better known as my back yard), I had to set the sensitivity down to 1 or 2 bars, or it sounded like a banshee! There are no overhead wires, or nearby electrical anything that would cause it to act like it did. By this time, I was convinced it was a POS! Not one to give up, I took it out Saturday, and it seems a little better in the parks than it did at home. I did notice that overhead line interference is worse, which is to be expected. Under most conditions (at least around here in Roswell, NM), the sensitivity can be set at the stock setting (two bars from full-on). You just can't do that when I'm in my own yard.
It does detect deeper than the stock 9x12, but nothing to write home about. If it has an attribute worth speaking about, it its ability to work in mineralized soil where the stock coil all but dies. I suspect that's enough justification to pay the tariff (over half the price of the detector itself), and to swing the extra weight. Pinpointed is more difficult, but I suspect that will get easy as I used to the way it works.
In any case, it almost paid for itself today, as I ran onto a small cache of real coins; four quarters, three dimes, two nickels, and 8 pennies (three of the pennies were post 1983). It appeared as if they were all contained in a small leather pouch of some kind, but all that was left were a few shreds. Not bad for just three hours out in the parks.
Alan Applegate
I did the usual reset to factory specs, and did an indoors air test (I had to turn down the sensitivity of course). It wasn't a bit better than the standard 6x9 that came with the Ace 250, and it acted funny to me. When moving coins front to back, it appeared to detect a little further away than it did side to side. A fact not noticed with either stock coil.
When I took it out to my salted coin garden (better known as my back yard), I had to set the sensitivity down to 1 or 2 bars, or it sounded like a banshee! There are no overhead wires, or nearby electrical anything that would cause it to act like it did. By this time, I was convinced it was a POS! Not one to give up, I took it out Saturday, and it seems a little better in the parks than it did at home. I did notice that overhead line interference is worse, which is to be expected. Under most conditions (at least around here in Roswell, NM), the sensitivity can be set at the stock setting (two bars from full-on). You just can't do that when I'm in my own yard.
It does detect deeper than the stock 9x12, but nothing to write home about. If it has an attribute worth speaking about, it its ability to work in mineralized soil where the stock coil all but dies. I suspect that's enough justification to pay the tariff (over half the price of the detector itself), and to swing the extra weight. Pinpointed is more difficult, but I suspect that will get easy as I used to the way it works.
In any case, it almost paid for itself today, as I ran onto a small cache of real coins; four quarters, three dimes, two nickels, and 8 pennies (three of the pennies were post 1983). It appeared as if they were all contained in a small leather pouch of some kind, but all that was left were a few shreds. Not bad for just three hours out in the parks.
Alan Applegate