I have been detecting with minelabs for a while explorer 2 was my first CTX second and then the nox .There all good all find coins but the CTX is still the champ and it has to do with ID . I prefer the CTX over the other fbs machines because it's a little faster not as much lag in audio and the 12 line ferrous coin separation mode .
Out comes the nox separation and fast when I got the nox I ran many different test between the CTX and nox .I ask several times why do I need speed the only answer I got was it separates better (really) well that's not what I see . All the detectors I have run will separate to 5 inches just as well as the nox and when the trash target gets to close to the non-ferrous target we get a blended signal there is no separation .
Take a nail and a dime blended signal the nox well read 14 15 maybe 20 this is at 5 inches at 2 inches proper id at 7 plus id drops even lower so ask yourself I got a id that's going from 12 to15 on this signal when I switch to 90 degrees it flashing iron are you going to dig (this is in a park or fairground ) I would say everybody will pass. Same signal on the CTX 12.43 to 12.45 it's seeing the 2 targets as 1 but is able to still give proper ID would you dig yes . I am totally bias to the CTX it is the best park hunter out there some detectors are good at other things and well beat it in certain situations but all in all the CTX still rules because of (ID).
Now there is a very simple test to do that proves this lay a pull-tab down put a dime 3 inches to the left and one 3 inches to the right of the pull-tab using the nox sweep this at 2 inches all targets separate and give good ID great you say does what it says now I don't hunt at 2 inches I hunt old coins now lift the coil to 5 inches and higher we get ID of 13 or 14 depending on what pull-tab you used (WHERE THE SEPARATION) the CTX will hit and give proper ID only with the side off the coil to full depth the nox using the side of the coil no go just 13 or 14 even though you can separate this at 1 to 4 inches with the nox as soon as you get tSo o 5 forget it.
Now take the pull-tab out replace with 3 nails north and south like this 111 but together the nox does better it well separate but the detector well read it as a blended signal good ID up to 5 inches increasing the depth well start giving blended signal #s 14 to 20 CTX well give proper ID to depth (superior ID it's in the dna) not recovery speed . So this boat anchor can beat this speed demon say it's not so .
I do like using the nox light weight But only run park 2 6 inch coil sensitivity as high as I can go FE2 0 recovery 6 gb 0 the reason I use 0 is there is no place to ground balance .Lots of coins found with the nox but not because of speed (IT"S THE DIFFERANT FREQS IT RUNS) that's where the coins are coming from not speed . All metal works better in iron but don't get talked out of a target because it's flashing - numbers use your search mode to look at the targets .It will not display -# only a 4 8 or 14 but not every sweep if you look at the screen and see these # being displayed when going 90 degrees dig .
Other target say one that has high tones and low tones and just a mess of tones raise your recovery speed to see if you can get any separation if not more than likely big iron would be nice if there was a button like sensitivity where you could push and change on the go instead of pushing so many buttons (MINELAB ARE YOU WATCHING) .
I was not going to post this but would like some input from other users oh and I did buy a minilab harness for my ctx getting old I guess so if your going deep just remember what's going on as I said above. One other thing coil size does not matter but the stock coil is deeper in iron . sube
Out comes the nox separation and fast when I got the nox I ran many different test between the CTX and nox .I ask several times why do I need speed the only answer I got was it separates better (really) well that's not what I see . All the detectors I have run will separate to 5 inches just as well as the nox and when the trash target gets to close to the non-ferrous target we get a blended signal there is no separation .
Take a nail and a dime blended signal the nox well read 14 15 maybe 20 this is at 5 inches at 2 inches proper id at 7 plus id drops even lower so ask yourself I got a id that's going from 12 to15 on this signal when I switch to 90 degrees it flashing iron are you going to dig (this is in a park or fairground ) I would say everybody will pass. Same signal on the CTX 12.43 to 12.45 it's seeing the 2 targets as 1 but is able to still give proper ID would you dig yes . I am totally bias to the CTX it is the best park hunter out there some detectors are good at other things and well beat it in certain situations but all in all the CTX still rules because of (ID).
Now there is a very simple test to do that proves this lay a pull-tab down put a dime 3 inches to the left and one 3 inches to the right of the pull-tab using the nox sweep this at 2 inches all targets separate and give good ID great you say does what it says now I don't hunt at 2 inches I hunt old coins now lift the coil to 5 inches and higher we get ID of 13 or 14 depending on what pull-tab you used (WHERE THE SEPARATION) the CTX will hit and give proper ID only with the side off the coil to full depth the nox using the side of the coil no go just 13 or 14 even though you can separate this at 1 to 4 inches with the nox as soon as you get tSo o 5 forget it.
Now take the pull-tab out replace with 3 nails north and south like this 111 but together the nox does better it well separate but the detector well read it as a blended signal good ID up to 5 inches increasing the depth well start giving blended signal #s 14 to 20 CTX well give proper ID to depth (superior ID it's in the dna) not recovery speed . So this boat anchor can beat this speed demon say it's not so .
I do like using the nox light weight But only run park 2 6 inch coil sensitivity as high as I can go FE2 0 recovery 6 gb 0 the reason I use 0 is there is no place to ground balance .Lots of coins found with the nox but not because of speed (IT"S THE DIFFERANT FREQS IT RUNS) that's where the coins are coming from not speed . All metal works better in iron but don't get talked out of a target because it's flashing - numbers use your search mode to look at the targets .It will not display -# only a 4 8 or 14 but not every sweep if you look at the screen and see these # being displayed when going 90 degrees dig .
Other target say one that has high tones and low tones and just a mess of tones raise your recovery speed to see if you can get any separation if not more than likely big iron would be nice if there was a button like sensitivity where you could push and change on the go instead of pushing so many buttons (MINELAB ARE YOU WATCHING) .
I was not going to post this but would like some input from other users oh and I did buy a minilab harness for my ctx getting old I guess so if your going deep just remember what's going on as I said above. One other thing coil size does not matter but the stock coil is deeper in iron . sube
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