A buddy of mine just shelled out to get this "latest greatest" Racer. I ribbed him for awhile, saying that it was all just "latest greatest" hype, that accompanies any new machine that comes on the market. But within a year, they're all just ho-hum normal machines. Not as capable of super-human feats that all the initial rumor-mill-buzz scpeculated about ! 
And when you look back at the history of the internet forums, for each time a new "latest greatest" was introduced, they were also accompanied by bullet-proof videos, testimonials, blah blah . But in time, they'd fall into a regular class of detectors, nothing super human afterall. Doh!
While I recognize that someone can 'diss air tests , and say they serve no purpose, yet I disagree with that. They are beneficial in knowing a capability. For example: if you can perform a test in the air (for depth, or masking, or whatever), then at least you have a "fighting chance" to replicate that same feat in the ground, eh ?
So with this in mind, can a couple of you do the following air tests, and report back your results:
a) set the machine's disc. to *just* knock out finger-long sized rusty nail. So for this test, we will not be using the full-spectrum tones (where the user relies on his ears to discern iron versus a conductive trying to peak through). I'm assuming the Racer can be set to do this, right? Where you can elect to have iron null out, rather than give a tone ?
b) Then take a dime, and hold it behind that nail. Wave it. Does the racer still null ? Or is the target combination now strong enough to up it into the accepted range now ? Yes I realize it's not going to give a "dime" TID, of course. But is it enough to cause the machine to get a positive signal ?
c) Now try the same test with 2 nails over a dime (making sure that the disc. setting is *just* enough to knock out those 2 nails, when detected held together).
d) try the test with the dime held touching the nail(s), versus separated by a finger's width. Any difference ?
Note: I ask that this test be done with the nails to be a "null" (silence) , rather than the full-tone ID. So that there can be NO MISTAKE on whether or not it's truly bumping up the signal enough to over-ride the iron. Because it's far-too-easy, when relying on supposed differences in tones, to say "I'd recognize that something is hiding amidst iron". When, in fact, when you get into the actual field, it turns out that those same squeeks and squaks are HEARD EVERYWHERE. Doh! Not that I wouldn't hunt in full-tone-ID mind you. But just that for air-purpose testing, there can be no mistake of judgement calls of what constitutes a signal, versus what doesn't.
And when you look back at the history of the internet forums, for each time a new "latest greatest" was introduced, they were also accompanied by bullet-proof videos, testimonials, blah blah . But in time, they'd fall into a regular class of detectors, nothing super human afterall. Doh!
While I recognize that someone can 'diss air tests , and say they serve no purpose, yet I disagree with that. They are beneficial in knowing a capability. For example: if you can perform a test in the air (for depth, or masking, or whatever), then at least you have a "fighting chance" to replicate that same feat in the ground, eh ?
So with this in mind, can a couple of you do the following air tests, and report back your results:
a) set the machine's disc. to *just* knock out finger-long sized rusty nail. So for this test, we will not be using the full-spectrum tones (where the user relies on his ears to discern iron versus a conductive trying to peak through). I'm assuming the Racer can be set to do this, right? Where you can elect to have iron null out, rather than give a tone ?
b) Then take a dime, and hold it behind that nail. Wave it. Does the racer still null ? Or is the target combination now strong enough to up it into the accepted range now ? Yes I realize it's not going to give a "dime" TID, of course. But is it enough to cause the machine to get a positive signal ?
c) Now try the same test with 2 nails over a dime (making sure that the disc. setting is *just* enough to knock out those 2 nails, when detected held together).
d) try the test with the dime held touching the nail(s), versus separated by a finger's width. Any difference ?
Note: I ask that this test be done with the nails to be a "null" (silence) , rather than the full-tone ID. So that there can be NO MISTAKE on whether or not it's truly bumping up the signal enough to over-ride the iron. Because it's far-too-easy, when relying on supposed differences in tones, to say "I'd recognize that something is hiding amidst iron". When, in fact, when you get into the actual field, it turns out that those same squeeks and squaks are HEARD EVERYWHERE. Doh! Not that I wouldn't hunt in full-tone-ID mind you. But just that for air-purpose testing, there can be no mistake of judgement calls of what constitutes a signal, versus what doesn't.
