Chuck@TreasureHut
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I received an email this morning from a very happy X-Terra 70 customer in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I thought you all might want to "hear" it. Cyril was using the 5" x 10", 18.75kHz, DD coil.
"Hi Chuck,
Here is an interesting story involving the use of my X-Terra 70. While having lunch with Bob, our club president, he mentioned that he had received a call from someone that had lost a hearing aid. He asked if someone in the club might be willing to help him find it. Bob asked me if I thought a metal detector would find a hearing aid. I said that the battery is probably the largest metal component in the hearing aid and that it would be the most likely thing for the metal detector to locate. I said that I was willing to help locate it. Bob gave me the persons name and notified him that I would contact him and set up a time to see if I could locate the lost hearing aid.
I made arrangements to meet with Jim on Thursday evening after dinner. I went over to Jim's house and we discussed every where he had been in his yard that day and I used his other hearing aid as a test target to set up the X-Terra 70. I had to set up the detector in the All Metal mode to detect the duplicate hearing aid to the one he lost. The hearing aid was very small and the battery was smaller in diameter than the diameter of a pencil eraser. I ground balanced the detector and since the battery was so small I ran the detector in fixed Ground Balance mode instead of Track to insure that I would not balance out the small target. I noted the detected low tone and the target ID number which were -6 and -8. These numbers are consistent with the iron in the battery so I felt sure that is what the detector was detecting. I told Jim that I would only investigated target signals with the low tone and those target ID numbers. I also knew that the target would not be buried so I did not need to do any digging. He said the hearing aid had been lost for about two weeks and that he had visually searched the area very carefully at least twice. I was able to locate it in after about 15 or 20 minutes of searching. He was very thrilled to recover the hearing aid since it cost around $1,900. He offered me a reward but I told him it was not necessary but if he really wanted to he could get in touch with Bob our club president and make a little donation to the club.
It is always a thrill for me when I can help someone recover a valuable lost item.
See the attached picture!!!
I though this might be of interest to you. God Bless
Cyril"
It would seem that there is just no end to what the X-Terra 70 can do!!!
I received an email this morning from a very happy X-Terra 70 customer in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I thought you all might want to "hear" it. Cyril was using the 5" x 10", 18.75kHz, DD coil.
"Hi Chuck,
Here is an interesting story involving the use of my X-Terra 70. While having lunch with Bob, our club president, he mentioned that he had received a call from someone that had lost a hearing aid. He asked if someone in the club might be willing to help him find it. Bob asked me if I thought a metal detector would find a hearing aid. I said that the battery is probably the largest metal component in the hearing aid and that it would be the most likely thing for the metal detector to locate. I said that I was willing to help locate it. Bob gave me the persons name and notified him that I would contact him and set up a time to see if I could locate the lost hearing aid.
I made arrangements to meet with Jim on Thursday evening after dinner. I went over to Jim's house and we discussed every where he had been in his yard that day and I used his other hearing aid as a test target to set up the X-Terra 70. I had to set up the detector in the All Metal mode to detect the duplicate hearing aid to the one he lost. The hearing aid was very small and the battery was smaller in diameter than the diameter of a pencil eraser. I ground balanced the detector and since the battery was so small I ran the detector in fixed Ground Balance mode instead of Track to insure that I would not balance out the small target. I noted the detected low tone and the target ID number which were -6 and -8. These numbers are consistent with the iron in the battery so I felt sure that is what the detector was detecting. I told Jim that I would only investigated target signals with the low tone and those target ID numbers. I also knew that the target would not be buried so I did not need to do any digging. He said the hearing aid had been lost for about two weeks and that he had visually searched the area very carefully at least twice. I was able to locate it in after about 15 or 20 minutes of searching. He was very thrilled to recover the hearing aid since it cost around $1,900. He offered me a reward but I told him it was not necessary but if he really wanted to he could get in touch with Bob our club president and make a little donation to the club.
It is always a thrill for me when I can help someone recover a valuable lost item.
See the attached picture!!!
I though this might be of interest to you. God Bless
Cyril"
It would seem that there is just no end to what the X-Terra 70 can do!!!
