Hi All,
Well, I posted this on a different forum but decided to post it here also. Now, I recently added the ability to be able to turn off either of the tones and as such, I wanted to see how well it would work in a park. Well, I will let you decide.
I ended up stopping at a spot where the grass was about gone because the park was somewhat crowded and that location was empty. Anyway, once out of the car and ready to start, I noticed someone had dug a few older bottle caps, so I used them as a test target and set the ground balance such the caps were ignored when operating using the low tone only. I then checked to make sure I could readily detect a dime and once that was determined ok, I headed of hunting in the low tone only.
I only spent about a half hour total but it was enough to let me know how well it worked. In that half hour, I dug 8 objects, which included the following; 1 screwcap, one copper fitting, 1 clad dime, 3 newer pennies, and two mercury silver dimes, a 1918 and a 1944. Ironically, the 1944 was the deeper of the two at about 8 inches or so. The 1918 was about 6 inches deep.
The nice thing was I dug no other trash at all. I could have dug a lot more surface coins but decided to try to target objects I felt were deeper. That is how I ended up with the copper fitting which was down about 5 inches or so.
Anyway, I haven't coin hunted for some time because it has been getting harder to find any silver. So, today was a fun day.
Although I only spent a short time, I have decided I now want a tone reversing switch on my older GS 5 and I need to build a smaller coil. So, those two items are on my list of things to do.
I did try operating with both tones but that drove me nuts. Besides I couldn't tell the low tones from the high ones after a while. Operating in the low tone only was really quiet. I also reduced the threshold so the detector ran almost as quiet as a top notch VLF discriminator, except the GS 5 did a better job of discriminating iron junk.
The GS 5 is turning out to be a nice detector for coin hunting.
Reg
Well, I posted this on a different forum but decided to post it here also. Now, I recently added the ability to be able to turn off either of the tones and as such, I wanted to see how well it would work in a park. Well, I will let you decide.
I ended up stopping at a spot where the grass was about gone because the park was somewhat crowded and that location was empty. Anyway, once out of the car and ready to start, I noticed someone had dug a few older bottle caps, so I used them as a test target and set the ground balance such the caps were ignored when operating using the low tone only. I then checked to make sure I could readily detect a dime and once that was determined ok, I headed of hunting in the low tone only.
I only spent about a half hour total but it was enough to let me know how well it worked. In that half hour, I dug 8 objects, which included the following; 1 screwcap, one copper fitting, 1 clad dime, 3 newer pennies, and two mercury silver dimes, a 1918 and a 1944. Ironically, the 1944 was the deeper of the two at about 8 inches or so. The 1918 was about 6 inches deep.
The nice thing was I dug no other trash at all. I could have dug a lot more surface coins but decided to try to target objects I felt were deeper. That is how I ended up with the copper fitting which was down about 5 inches or so.
Anyway, I haven't coin hunted for some time because it has been getting harder to find any silver. So, today was a fun day.
Although I only spent a short time, I have decided I now want a tone reversing switch on my older GS 5 and I need to build a smaller coil. So, those two items are on my list of things to do.
I did try operating with both tones but that drove me nuts. Besides I couldn't tell the low tones from the high ones after a while. Operating in the low tone only was really quiet. I also reduced the threshold so the detector ran almost as quiet as a top notch VLF discriminator, except the GS 5 did a better job of discriminating iron junk.
The GS 5 is turning out to be a nice detector for coin hunting.
Reg