I've had my ACE for two seasons now and I've found many wonderful relics and old/silver/copper coins. I'll post up my year end totals when the ground freezes. I feel that going to the largest factory coil gave me more depth this year with my ACE, but.......... How much of a jump would it be for me to go to the 1500 GTI? Another couple of inches in real world depth? More? What other advantages does the imaging bring? I really like my ACE a lot and will not sell it so I don't want this to be an ACE bash please. I just have no other frame of reference as I've never touched another detector. Please give me any/all opinions on the move up the line. I"m primarily a coin/relic hunter. I'm getting a REALLY good feel for what the ACE tells me through sound, does the GTI make the same signal tones? Thank you.
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How much of an upgrade is this?
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blake_mulder
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I started off with an ACE 250, then "upgraded" to a 1500 - I only hunt for coins - so imaging feature is crucial - While the 1500 is a great machine, I have found you cant always trust this feature - many times now I have scanned an object as size c, only to test the 1500 by digging and finding coins that should be b size - obviously if there are other items nearby it will give a larger size indication - but I have scanned targets at c size, removed a coin, then switched to all metal mode to see if there was something else there and there was nothing - my point being unless you dig size a through c all the time then whats the point of imaging that isnt reliable? Dont want to knock the 1500, in the first two weeks I dug up over
DD, concentrics each have their strengths. The GTI 1500 has the imaging feature, which can really increase your coin finds when you learn it well.
http://www.garrett.com/hobby/hbby_searchcoil_tech_sheet.pdf
http://www.garrett.com/hobby/hbby_searchcoil_tech_sheet.pdf
Uncle Willy
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You won't get a whole lot more depth with the 1500 - just a lot more target information that will save you digging undesirable targets. Course I don't know how knowing the size of your target will work out in relic hunting because you are basically digging junk left over from a war The 1500 was designed for coinshooting and is one of the best on the market. There is an after market coil for the 250 from Kellyco - a 10x14 DD that users claim gets great depth.
Bill
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Uncle Willy
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One thing with the 1500. Centering the target correctly is absolutely critical to get correct readings on anything and it can be tricky. You can't get sloppy. I have dug a kazillion quarters that first ID'ed as cents. But after pressing pinpoint ( and still getting a cent ID ) and moving the coil around ever so slightly that ID switches to "quarter." One thing about the GTI's ( and I hammered away at this constantly when I ran the Garrett Classroom years ago ) you can't detect with them like you would with any other brand as they are a breed all their own. If you do so then you are going to have problems.
Bill
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