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My coinstrike experience

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Hello fellas. I would appreciate some opinions of the coinstrike and find out if others have seen the same things. I had my coinstrike for 2 months and then sold it. It would ID rusty bottlecaps as a quarter every time with a good clear tone. I had my brother check my signals with his CZ70 and his machine would disc them out. Also my Explorer XS would ID these properly. Not to say i have never been fooled by a bottle cap, i have with every machine i have owned at some point or another. but the coinstrike called them all good, even out of the hole. Also alluminum caps it would also ID as quarters. Do all coinstrikes do this? I think this machine has potential because i think that Fishers claim that it can see thru trash is partially true because i did my own testing with a nail on top of a coin and it would see the coin and id it. No other machine i have tested like this would do the same. Anyone have any idea if my machine was just defective, or are they all like this, Thanks.
 
We would first need to learn of your settings you were operating the Coinstrike at. That information would put us at least on a starting point.
With the iron discrimination set up full, the threshold around #20/25, and the sensitivity set about #5, I haven
 
that descriminated out bottle caps, but I own a CZ70 & CZ5 along with a C$, and I'll dig every bottle cap in the area when I use the CZ70 because it will show up as high coin everytime.
Don't recall diggin hardly any bottle caps with the C$.
 
Mine ID"s bottle caps as coin, ring, pull tabs. Depends on the metal make up of the cap.
Bill
 
The explorer will disc them out if you have the lower right part of the screen blacked out. I have never had a coin id there on an expolorer. Almost all rusty botlecaps come in there on the explorer. Believe me i know rusty botle caps as i have dug piles of them from different sites. I am not trying to slam the coinstrike, i am thinking about gettind another one. I have just not had another machine that would bark out on old rusty bottlecaps and alluminum caps and have a clear solid quarter indication. Other machines would at least give some indication the rusty caps were trash with broken audio, jumpy ID ect. Not that i am afraid to dig trash, i have worn the teeth off my leshe digger in one year. But in parks i try to limit the holes i dig.
 
My girlfriend recently purchased a c$ and I took it out to test drive it a couple of times I have to say I had the same experience on bottlecaps and also I dug a few deep rusty iron rings.I have to say it does love round objects and locks on to them quite well. My girlfriend has accumulated 10 or so hours on the unit and she doesnt seem to have the same experience as myself. she has a brisker swing speed than myself and also she double checks her targets by sweeping at different angles. So far she is getting comfortable with her new toy.Thanks for all the tips and experience we get here I am sure that it is helping her in the learning curve. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
We must have different caps because the Ex. units I have if you disc. them out you would loose coins.
Back to the Coinstrike. I have not had any caps ever show up as quarters, but I guess that would be just like you have caps come in at the lower discrimination range on the Ex.
Cap are not created equal. They certainly are not iron even though you find a lot of them rusted. Caps are made up of various metal alloys, and are a difficult target for any detector. Keeping this in mind this may be why some are bothered a lot by the caps, and others using the same detector are not. Running my iron discriminator at full setting, and the threshold around the 20 mark on the Coinstrike, I really haven't been bothered by them. To be truthfull it wasn't something that was on my mind. The next time I'm out with it I'll try to pay more attention to it.
Mr. Bill
 
Texasdave
You may have hit the cap on the head, with the fact that your girlfriend has a faster sweep speed. With increased sweep speed the Coinstrike has improved performance. She also is checking the target from different angles.
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