I read a while ago that the GB on an Ace 250 cannot be adjusted in any way, shape, or form; this got me thinking. I was on another forum and somebody said that he'd talked to a guy at Garrett a number of years ago, when the Gtax 1000 was the big kahuna, and he was told that the detector ground balances for the first few seconds when first turned on and maintains that point. If it's held in the air it reverts to a default GB. I wonder if the Ace 250 is anything like that. Would be nice and good to know if that were the case with the 250. ..Willy.
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Just wondering..
- Thread starter willy
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I think the ACE has it's ground balance preset and does not have the same feature that the GTAx has.
Uncle Willy
New member
Yeah it has a fixed ground balance for general all-around use.
Bill
Bill
But here's where I'm left wondering; almost every detector that I've looked inside of has some sort of adjustments that can be made for GB. Given that (correct me if I'm wrong) most electronic components operate within certain tolerances and no 2 machines will generally be exactly the same. Seeing as the detector must be basically balanced, within certain parameters, to the ground.. how can Garrett ensure that the detector IS, more or less, correctly balanced if it doesn't have some sort of tracking system? This would, I believe, also affect the target ID. ..Willy.
Alan Applegate
New member
Here's a little experiment you can try on your own.
Get a 6 inch square piece of aluminum foil, and fold it up in multiple layers until it's about the 1 inch square. Lay it on the ground, and scan back and forth over it several times. Then move on like you're scanning a large field. Most of the time, the 250 will give you a coin bong after a swing or two, usually at or very near the right hand side of the scale.
If you're using the larger coil, you might also notice a mid tone occasionally, about the penny marker after scanning the foil target several times.
Then ask yourself if you've noticed this during your hunts? And did you think if might have been a false signal? Well guess what?
Get a 6 inch square piece of aluminum foil, and fold it up in multiple layers until it's about the 1 inch square. Lay it on the ground, and scan back and forth over it several times. Then move on like you're scanning a large field. Most of the time, the 250 will give you a coin bong after a swing or two, usually at or very near the right hand side of the scale.
If you're using the larger coil, you might also notice a mid tone occasionally, about the penny marker after scanning the foil target several times.
Then ask yourself if you've noticed this during your hunts? And did you think if might have been a false signal? Well guess what?