We're having a "lively" discussion about the possibility of using the Infinium as a deep coin-shooter in the turf over on the Kinzli CA forum. As you get to very deep targets, can you Infinium users tell me if the ability to discriminate between HI-LOW and LOW-HI targets is greatly diminished? I had the idea that you could reverse cherry-pick turf sites for high conductors using the Infinium, by listening for deep, faint signals that registered as LOW-HI. Below is an excerpt from our discussion:
Ziphius, yes, the Infinium is supposed to have some rudimentary system of telling highs verses lows, and/or conductive verses non-conductive. But I think if you dig into it more, the users will tell you that it only works on shallower targets. Ie.: the disc. range is only in the upper ranges of its depths, not to the full range of its depth. Ask an good infinium user if deeep nails (especially bent ones, which are harder to discern from straight ones) give a different signal than deeeep coins. I'm talking the 9" and more stuff, or ... wherever is the fringe ranges of their detection. I may be wrong on this, but I think that when infinimium users (on the beach for instance) want the max depth, they do indeed give up some iron disc. There have been people who have tried Infinium in parks and on land, and they haven't caught on for this reason. The person you quote who has been succesful with one for deep turf coins, is successful for another reason: that he's simply chasing deep signals. I think if you quizzed him, he would say that at those depths, it's not an issue of accurate TIDs, but simply a very old concept of going all-metal to go deeper than disc. can afford you. He's simply in a particular park where it's clean enough, and the remaining coins are there, but simply out of disc. range, and in ratios at those depths that it has been worthwhile. There are other parks where he might give up that notion, because they're just too junky either in surface levels, or at the deeper levels, or both.
Ziphius, yes, the Infinium is supposed to have some rudimentary system of telling highs verses lows, and/or conductive verses non-conductive. But I think if you dig into it more, the users will tell you that it only works on shallower targets. Ie.: the disc. range is only in the upper ranges of its depths, not to the full range of its depth. Ask an good infinium user if deeep nails (especially bent ones, which are harder to discern from straight ones) give a different signal than deeeep coins. I'm talking the 9" and more stuff, or ... wherever is the fringe ranges of their detection. I may be wrong on this, but I think that when infinimium users (on the beach for instance) want the max depth, they do indeed give up some iron disc. There have been people who have tried Infinium in parks and on land, and they haven't caught on for this reason. The person you quote who has been succesful with one for deep turf coins, is successful for another reason: that he's simply chasing deep signals. I think if you quizzed him, he would say that at those depths, it's not an issue of accurate TIDs, but simply a very old concept of going all-metal to go deeper than disc. can afford you. He's simply in a particular park where it's clean enough, and the remaining coins are there, but simply out of disc. range, and in ratios at those depths that it has been worthwhile. There are other parks where he might give up that notion, because they're just too junky either in surface levels, or at the deeper levels, or both.
