took out the 2500 for a test drive at Buford School in Charlottesville, VA, made a lot of hits, about 40 per hour.
first time recharging my 2500 ma batteries this year, two battery packs lastest all of about 2 hours each.
so the hunt lastest less than 4 hours on saturday, after testing to see what cells i divided the bad cells and
charged them separately.
returned on sunday, and hunted for about 3 1/2 hours, the battery still show a full charge using one battery pack.
the method i use to pinpoint is to keep reducing the swing while releasing and pressing the pinpoint, then drop the
coil onto the target.
next pull the coil back until the signal falls off, move slightly forward til max signal.
then use a screwdriver to mark the inner coil and probe the curve of the coil with another screwdriver.
about 25 percent of the time, the target is found where i have marked with the screwdriver initially.
if you cannot find the target after pinpointing, then rotate your swing 90 degrees and try again.
also if the ground is noisy, then i repeat sweeping while raising the coil to pinpoint the target.
then lower the coil to the ground for reference, and mark with the screwdriver.
oh, i was using the 12 inch imaging coil while detecting.
the attached photo shows my finds for both days, the top is for saturday and the bottom was sunday.
no coins older than 1967, but two sterling silver pieces were found and a newer one dollar coin.
bwireman
first time recharging my 2500 ma batteries this year, two battery packs lastest all of about 2 hours each.
so the hunt lastest less than 4 hours on saturday, after testing to see what cells i divided the bad cells and
charged them separately.
returned on sunday, and hunted for about 3 1/2 hours, the battery still show a full charge using one battery pack.
the method i use to pinpoint is to keep reducing the swing while releasing and pressing the pinpoint, then drop the
coil onto the target.
next pull the coil back until the signal falls off, move slightly forward til max signal.
then use a screwdriver to mark the inner coil and probe the curve of the coil with another screwdriver.
about 25 percent of the time, the target is found where i have marked with the screwdriver initially.
if you cannot find the target after pinpointing, then rotate your swing 90 degrees and try again.
also if the ground is noisy, then i repeat sweeping while raising the coil to pinpoint the target.
then lower the coil to the ground for reference, and mark with the screwdriver.
oh, i was using the 12 inch imaging coil while detecting.
the attached photo shows my finds for both days, the top is for saturday and the bottom was sunday.
no coins older than 1967, but two sterling silver pieces were found and a newer one dollar coin.
bwireman