I've Become Convinced

[Anonymous]

I have no statistics to back this up, but after my last couple dozen trips out metal detecting, I have discovered I find most of my finds in the first hour or hour and a half. When the battery charge bar drops below 1/4 of full charge, my finds seem to decrease proportionately to my battery charge. I'm refering to coins 6-11 inches deep of course. Is it me or do you think a full battery charge is conductive for better and deeper results?
H.H.

 

[Anonymous]

The operation and depth of penetration of the signal into the soil does not depend on the power supply being at full charge. No more signal goes into the ground at full charge than at half charge! There is a minimum charge that is needed to operate the detector properly but we are informed when we are within an hour or so of that level.
It is something like thinking that a car will have less power if the tank is half full of gas or down to a gallon of gas. That is just not how the engine works. The detector will go just as deep as long as the there is enough charge to keep the electronic engine working properly and that is almost at the point of empty.
Hope this helps to lessen your concerns,
HH, Cody

 

[Anonymous]

I have to convince myself to walk away, even when the battery is getting low. I have found deep (7+ inches) coins at near empty battery power.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm by no means a rocket scientist or even a good metal detectorist. It's just my opinion and personal observations. It very well could be my loss of attention and concentration after a hour or so? But time after time, if I don't find it during my (first precious hour or hour and a half), I don't find it? I would bet myself I'll find 4/5 of my good finds in the first hour, as compared to the remaining four hours of my battery life. That is my experience.
H.H. and Good Luck...

 

[Anonymous]

I would not worry about missing targets due to a low battery, I have run my battery dead e.g. Explorer turns itself off while testing coils on my bench and I'm not seeing any loss of depth. Or any gain for that matter with fresh batteries.
Metal detecting is freakish that way. I'll get on a string of hunts like that where bam I find the best finds in the first few minutes then nothing for hours. Next month it will be just the opposite, I'll detect hard for hours and find nothing then bang on the way to the truck they start popping out of the ground.
I have walked out into a multi-acre field and walked right up to the only large cent for 150 yards in all directions. I have done that so many times its annoying. I hit a park at lunch one day, got out of the truck, walked 6 feet, bang 3 indians and a 2 cent piece. Came back several more times and detected all around that spot and found nada. A few weeks back I step onto the giant Atlantic City beach, pick a line, go 10 minutes and band a nice gold ring. I then grid the beach back and forth for hours and finding nothing bit zinks and trash. Go figure.
Anyway I gave up trying to figure out the weird patterns of detecting.
Charles

 

[Anonymous]

Carry a battery pack with you thats low, then when you find a deep target with your fresh battery pack switch to the low pack and see what happens, at least you will know for sure.

 

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I'm consistant and I don't ever have trouble hearing a signal when called over. I think you can't totally discount the luck factor. Usually when someone calls me over I just think to myself most of the time... "How could you miss that one"... Which brings up the question.. What happens in the winter that really brings the coins out that have been missed before...
Just my take... <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> Guvner..

 

[Anonymous]

I agree with the other poster concerning the electronics & battery charge level. Metal detecting can be fairly demanding depending on many factors.
Perhaps you are not as crisp or YOUR baterries wear down from physical fatigue. I have never been able to detect for more than 2 hours at a time. That's just me. I have ADD-attention defiecit disorder- and after a while-i just zone out- I need to rest.

 

[Anonymous]

a silver one reale about 6 in.deep just before that sound ya get when the batteries die.This has happened more than once.I think you just gotta learn to trust the machine,It will never lie to ya.Keep fresh batteries on hand.
What is hard to understaind is,why can you go over the same spot 4 or 5 times and then all the sudden hit a great find?I have one small hill that i go back to a lot.i find something good every time i go there.sometimes its right beside an old hole that i have allready dug.Might be cause of that halo thing everyone talks about..............HH

 

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[Anonymous]

TRY THISraw a circle that is the same as your coil.Drop a plumb bob from a suspension to the center of the circle.From the four sides make a cone.This will give you the area you are receiving the signal from.All drawings of the signals except in the multipe frequency types send the signal through ground cone shape. This in realty is only giving you a 1" read at the edge of your coil and 9 or 10 " at the very center.Try it in your yard and see for your self.I did and it taught me concentrate on holding the coil as level as I possibly can.The easy way to see it is just draw an upsde down triangle and measure the depth every inch of the coil until you hit center.If the object is otside the lines you will miss it.Hope it helps you,
GOOD HUNTING
JimPa.

 

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[Anonymous]

Chris,I was just telling him how easy it is to miss a target.Don't get me wrong I often think about changing a coil but I think I do fairly well with my detectors.They all paid for their selves.
GOOD HUNTING
Jim Pa