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Jemma

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Okay. I have a garret metal detector from my favorite uncle who I love and adore, but it doesn't seem to be doing what I wanted it to.

Now, my uncle owns a metal detecting business, but cannot call him to help me.

Here's me dilemma:

I threw my engagement ring in my fron yard LAST SUMMER and have been trying to find it since. Now I cannot ask my uncle for help with the problem,
because needless to say I was really mad at my fiance. So instead of starting a family feud over why we were arguing, I am asking for help or suggestions.

I have gone over my yard again and again, but the metal detector just beeps and beeps for no apparent reason. No wires, no metal in the ground, no coins, etc.
I mean, I do know quite a bit about this. Because of my Once I have been using metal detectors since I was about seven. It's kind f a family tradition. Anyway, any suggestions.
There is a lot of snow on the ground and I know it is sinking deeper and deeper. It is as though I am going round and round in a wild goose chase. I have use tester pieces of jewelry, and when I turn my sensitivity to jewelry it doesn't beep at all.

HELP!!!
 
What Garrett model is it ?
May be defective or not set properly .
Some one will chime in and try to help you.
Good luck hope things work out for !
 
check the batteries and make sure they are good, and did you ground balance it first, it helps if we know what model it is!:confused:
 
It does have new batteries, and I have growned it. That doesn't seem to be the problem.


The metal detector is old. It's a Garret Treasue Ace 100. I know, it's older than god. Could that be a contributing factor?

Any cleaning or maintenance you think it needs?
 
the only other thing i can think of, based on what you said, when you did your test, and got no beeps you may want to check the connections on the cable to the coil and to the box , You may have a bad unit! i don't know what more it could be , maybe someone else may. sorry.
 
Did you try to use zero discrimination, maximum sensitvity (power), new batteries and still no response to a ring?
See if you can borrow an Ace 250 if the 100 doesn't work.

PennyFinder
 
It sounds like a bit of a glitch. If you have a coil cover on, pull it off and make sure that there is nothing in there as that can cause the problem you are having. If it's not that, check your batteries for a firm connection. If there is a loose connection between either the batteries and the battery connectors, or a loose wire from the battery compartment, then the detector can give you all sorts of grief, including having it sound off like that. If you have a cell phone on you when you've got the detector on, turn it off as it can cause ellectrical interference as well. Is there anything else that can cause ellectrical interference, like an ellectrified fence, high voltage power lines near by eta? If you still can't nail the problem, then you may want to contact Garrett's and they can offer further advice or send it in for repair.
Mick Evans.
 
Lots of good advise If I were youd id contaact
unlce wllly on this site.. He will for sure be able
to help


Good Luck

Ron
RLTW
 
I wonder if the ace 100 can be reset?
 
I'd air test it first with some change and check it that way.
If it gives you the bell tone then its working.
You said you got it from your Uncle. You mean he sold it to you or
he gave it to you?
Have you much experience with metal detecting?

Many people useing the Ace for the first time have problems pinpointing
and then finding the target. I don't know what coil the Ace 100 uses but
whichever one, it may take some practice to get used to it. My experience
has been if if I dig and don't find the target its usually not because its not
there but because its still there, too deep or in the SIDE of the hole. Thats
where a pinpointer helps alot.

You should also dig every signal. Don't depend on the LCD display if
the Ace 100 has one.

If you don't know in what part of the yard you threw it you may have to
do the entire yard. Consider too that in a fit of anger your blood is really
pumping and the ring may have gone further than you thought like into
your neighbors yard.

Good luck. Hope you find it.

Katz
 
I went to help a friend find a ring he'd lost while he was feeding cows We found the ring... but it wasn't on the ground!!! It was hanging on a tree branch about 2-3 feet off the ground!!! Hmmmm Anyway it seems like you are having problems with the machine itself Best of luck!!!! My original machine(Garrett Groundhog) is 35 years old
 
I had never seen the Ace 100, Treasure Ace200 or the Ace 300. I went on the net
and see they have concentric coils. They should be easy to pinoint with. Too bad
you cant get an Ace 250 though.
Is there a metal detecting club in your area?
If so maybe one of those people can help you find that ring.
Katz
 
First of all the 100 isn't much of a detector. It's the bottom line of the Treasure Ace series and brutally basic - a one-knob machine.. I don't think it even has a all metal setting on it just a coin and ring setting and a trash setting. Have you tested it in coin mode to see if it will pick up rings? You might also set it on pulltab and in that range to see if it will pick up a gold ring. Try these and then check back.

Bill
 
The Treasure Ace series is a completely different series than the current Ace 150/250 that came out some years back. I field tested the Treasure Ace 300 a zillion years ago.

Bill
 
HI Jemma,
Have just read your post re the lost ring and the Ace 100.

Did you find your ring?

If you set the disc to the rings area on the dial you will find almost nothing.
Set the disc to just above the lower red section and just into the white Trash area and you should start finding stuff. Check the detectors response with another gold ring.
Even If the ring is white or yellow gold you still need to set the disc low. Only heavy rings will sound off in the Pull Tab and ring area on the Disccrimination dial.

If the detector is sounding off everywhere it may be responding to electrical interference, are power lines nearby?

Even if there is elec interference you will still be able to hear you ring if it is within 7 inches of the surface, but you will have to scan and listen carefully and check every target

Cheers,
Adrian SS
 
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