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gold chains
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Mike Bearden
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Yes, I've found a few over the years with the Explorer but not many small/thin link chains. It will hit them better in the ground/sand than a air test though. Thin chains are one of the very few Explorers weakness. A dedicated high frequency machine is much better suited for this purpose.
H.H.
Mike
H.H.
Mike
The Fossicker
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It is true that Dedicated Detectors have an edge over the Explorer, but gold chain is an inherent problem to most Detectors including your Dedicated types. It has to do with the shape of the chain and size. I have several Dedicated Detectors (one can read your skin!) in my collection and even those Detectors will not respond if the chain (especially small) is in a straight line. The reason for all of this is the signal strength generated by individual links are not strong enough to create a good return signal. Enough said. Good Luck.
They all have that problem. Chains are hard to detect because of how the field reacts to the loops, it does not see the chain as one large piece of material due to the shape of the loops and the fact that they are not solidly connected to each other. No discrimination is probably the best way. Like if you find a charm then you may want to run no discrimination and really hunt the general vicinity of that area in hopes of finding the chain that went along with it. My EXll will detect a chain if I run no discrimination and then it's an iffy signal unless I'm really close to it.
siggy, I don't think many detectors will pick up the small, flat gold chains unless it's a dedicated nugget unit. I have been looking for answers to this also and I have used many detectors and none of them are good for this. I was thinking that the Explorer II, with it's multiple frequencies going all the way up to 100 khz would be able to do this but it won't. I was even considering buying a gold machine but decided against it. Just not worth the money to be able to use it for one limited purpose, and that only in the dry sand. Have a great weekend.
Jerry
Jerry