Hit my favorite schoolyard Saturday. Previously, I had only done a brief check for interference, so yesterday was the first time I hunted there with the revised T2.
Finds were slim in several previous hunts here, but the playground was still partially frozen.
Yesterday was different. Interference with the new T2 and my replacement coil was lessened and finds were improved. I found $2.58, pretty normal for a good day here after many months of waiting. 8 quarters, 2 dimes, 4 nickles, 15 pennies. Oldest were a pair of 1966 coppers. Over half the coins showed they'd been buried awhile. Also found a small silver locket.
I was digging down to the pavement that underlaid the wood chips and also finding deeply buried iron, small bits of wire and bent paperclips, nails, foil, etc., even the remains of a rusty can. I had disc set in the low 30's, so iron was still reading and I was intentionally investigating most targets, at least till I'd dug enough to verify ID. I don't recall chasing targets to bedrock that often here with my Time Ranger. A few I gave up on as too deep to chase in the wet and blackened chips, since ID was tending to trash on those, anyway.
ID was good, depth was good, tone mode choices wider and more fun. Trash ID jumps, good stuff sticks to an ID.
Some spots had more interference than others. I noted that in pinpoint, it mostly went away. Only one spot was really too noisy to hunt well. I noted it was directly beneath power lines. When I set the machine down to dig, interference increased with the detector in the prone position and the tip of the coil pointed skywards. The frequency control had a more definite effect on this. Turning up disc and reducing sens also helped. In other spots, interference was negligible and I was able to crank things up more.
My legs are still sore from all the targets I recovered! All in all, a good test and showing improvements over the pre-revision T2 for me in my favorite spots.
-Ed
