Bench Tested Ace 250

[King-John]

I received the Ace 250 the other day in the mail, I assembled it and thought i would do a little testing so I would know how the unit would respond to different targets, I started out with Coins from Silver Quarter to Zinc Penny, pretty easy to determine Coins.
Then I decided I would see how it would respond to Gold, I tested it on thin gold chain had to be pretty close to get signal, then I moved up on size, I then decided to test the difference between the Gold and Pull-Tabs, As I had thought just like my other detector gold sounds close to Pull-Tab. I then tested to see the difference between a Large Gold item and a couple of different types of Pull-Tabs, I used a Very Large 18k Men's Pendant that I found last year, the tone was exactly the same between the Tabs and the Gold, reading was one or two notches below Pull-Tab depending on Tab, looks like we will need to dig everything from Nickle up.
If some of you that use the 250 have some preferences on the custom setting, and would like to share.
Thanks, John

 

[khouse]

quote "looks like we will need to dig everything from Nickle up" That would be correct looking for gold with any detector. I would add that you really need to dig it all but iron when looking for gold. (relic mode). What was the 250's settings when you did your test? The way I perform air tests on any detector is at max sens and least disc. Because a medium setting on one detector is not the same as another detector sens or disc.

 

[lazyaussie]

most of the gold i find hit as foil-5c with some deep or small gold bouncing from iron to foil i find only the bigger gold hit in pull tab range so i run in all metal & senc as high as i can get it without to much noise usually one bar down from full.

 

[dahut]

. . . plan to find wAAAAAAAAAy more trash than gold. GO search posts by lazyaussie and you'll get the idea.

Just get used to it now, before you begin. It'll make it easier down the line, when the frustration sets in.

 

[slingshot]

Yeah, about the settings. I just can't take the hairpins, paper clips,pieces of coat hangers, nuts,bolts, etc. I use the Relics mode to JUST get rid of these-sometimes larger nails and bolts come through. I found this necklace in Relics mode that "booped" on the first pass, then changed to the standard tone when I rechecked it. Probably wouldn't have found it if I was in the Jewelry mode-don't know. To me, the Relics mode is AWESOME and with my short timeframe to hunt I'm hunting as if I'm in a competition hunt-some newbies who have seen me say they didn't know that a detector would work at that speed! When I'm only down to one school a day,OTOH, I slow down.