the MX5 test run 1 hr in a park mild ground, targets spaced well enough apart to use a 13" coil. ground moist.
just got the 13" Detech Ultimate coil today so took it for a quick test drive, out of the box it looks well made and feels light for its size which for me is a big plus and its big as I would ever need to go in a round coil and it is a great size I would say for the maximum depth on a VLF detector on coin size objects.
just a short hunt iron disced out and 8 tones on the MX5 had the sens at full for 20 mins a bit chatty 8 bars would fix that and I would say this park would be an average to just above EMI spot as there is a transformer unit 100 yards away, so the combination handled the present EMI well.
This spot has some coins not a lot and not many that I would normally hunt for there is no older coins here just modern 1970's onwards and it was just close to home for a quick hit out so I wasn't expecting much just really wanted to see how this combo handled EMI and if it would find me older coins in this format. as the smaller copper coins will and do mimic silver coins that I hunt for.
so being new to the MX5 and even newer to the 13" coil I decided I would only dig just above rip tabs and up.
so 1st target was in the ID range of coins I hunt and sounded solid turned out to be a $1 coin at about 5" , thought to myself cant get a much better start than that maybe this combo will do well.
so I dug some 1 & 2 cent coins these come in just and in to the silver range and I know there is no silver coins in this spot but just wanted to get a feel for sound and depth the deepest of the small copper coins would have been getting close to 8" which is max depth a coin lays in this spot and the set up seemed and was hitting them with room to spare, so this gives me hope that this combo could do well on deep silver in mild and lower iron conditions. I did get tricked by some rusty beer caps but like all detectors they have their little thing that gives them away, and more of a screaming sound but more work needs to be done there by me with this detector.
so while I am still for sure just learning this detector and it is different type machine than I am used too, I think at its price point with a couple of extra coils it could and can punch above its weight class as a all-round detector, its not the fastest machine I have used nor does it have the best ID , but what it lacks there it makes up for with raw power and some telling tones that I think once mastered will make this detector a worthy opponent for some of the higher ranked detectors.
I haven't gelled with this detector yet by any means and this detector from my short time with it has to be worth me spending some quality time with I think it has some great potential !!
AJ