Cibola iron nail discrimination video I just did

[DetectorOCD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtxB1lnTXps

Check it out, guys

 

[Furious T]

Thanks for both the videos....great demonstrations and a good lesson/info for us all.

 

[mike5853]

The Cibola, like all Tesoros, has talents that will amaze! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Bill_S]

Will this work with a dime with the disc turned up past zinc penny? I can not get it to work on the Bandido umax. Thanks.

 

[Qball]

Will this work with a dime with the disc turned up past zinc penny? I can not get it to work on the Bandido umax. Thanks.

I say no. My experience with the Cibola with a nail and any clad coin discs out lower on the discrimination knob. Somewhere between 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock depending on the coin used. I have various scenarios buried in my test garden using nails and coins together that I use to practice with my MD. I'm not a fan of the roll the disc knob to find where it discriminates out at when hunting in the field. Good chance of missing something good. I've found numerous good finds with multiple rusted square nails in the same hole in the fields I hunt. I'm no expert but I believe the iron nail combined with the coin lowers the overall conductivity of the target. I'm sure some of the more technical MD'ers here can explain it better. I leave my disc set a hair above Iron and dig everything.

 

[Qball]

Excellent video OCD!! Keep making'em.

 

[Bill_S]

I think you are right Qball. This will even happen on other detectors. On detectors with a TID system you can see where a coin mixed with a nail will cause the ID to drop from say a dime reading to maybe nickel range or below. I was hoping on the tesoro it would still be able to ID the coin in the proper range.