New to TH - Help with ACE 250 controls

[maglid]

Hello everyone. Was hoping someone could guide me to a place where I can get info on learing more about the Ace discrimination and elimination controls as well as what to look for on the LCD screen when you hit a target. The book is limited and though I have been practicing and understand some of the features, i'm having difficulty understanding how to use the notch discrimination and elimination controls.

Also, if someone can give me guidance on how to tell from the LCD that you have hit gold or silver, that would be great. It is fairly obvious with coins but not sure about the jewelry or relic mode.

I'm assuming that the All-Metal mode is a catch-all for everything (coins, jewlery, etc...). If you have it in coin mode only, will it eliminate gold and silver, or will it include those. Similarly, if you are in jewelry mode, will it eliminate coins?

Also, can someone tell me what are common types of relics found with the Ace. I'm assuming things like bullets, arrows, etc...

Thanks everyone for your assistance.

 

[Goldburn]

Coin mode will pick up most silver, but discriminate against some gold.

Gold rings will ring in anywhere from just below nickel to just above penny. Like most will tell you here.. You discriminate against junk, you discriminate out some gold too.

 

[treasurefiend]

I run mine in coin mode 99% of the time. I found both of my gold rings in coin mode. The 18k came up as a penny and my 14k came up as a nickel. I found my silver chain in coin mode too, it jumped around from dime to dollar. I know that I could be missing gold, but I just get tired of digging up all of the garbage that you find in jewelry mode.

If you find a silver ring it will come up in the dime or higher range, gold will be from foil to penny range. You won't know for sure until you dig it up.

Jewelry mode will get coins and pull tabs and aluminium foil too. But that is where all of the gold falls into.

If you hunt in all metal mode, yes it will find everything. But you can still find nails in coin mode. Over the years, the nail rusts and can fool even the top of the line detectors.

As for knowing if its a silver coin or not, here in my area, most of the older coins are more than 6 inches deep. But I have found a Buffalo Nickel just under the surface. Other places in the US can have older coins at 2 inches deep. I suggest you dig all of the coin signals to get a feel as to where the older ones are (what depth they are at).

Some tricks that I was told was, when you get a nickel signal, sweep it fast quite a few times, if it stays on nickel, then its good. If it drops on either side of nickel, its prolly old foil. But dig it anyways to make sure. Also, if you get a good target but its huge when you try to pinpoint it, lift your coil off of the ground about a foot. If you still get a strong signal, then its prolly an old tin can.

All of my finds listed below were found with my Ace 250

Hope this helps some...

 

[slingshot]

Discrimination is for COIN hunting. LOCATION determines discrimination. Since gold and many other valuable objects have fallen ALL OVER the discrimination spectrum, it would be only a tool to give you some kind of idea of how conductive the target is,say at an old homestead, before you DIG it. At a new, trash laden park covered in tabs and similar trash-it would keep you from going nuts. That's what makes the Ace special-YOU program it to the location-and even in all metal you still have visual aid.

 

[Uncle Willy]

THe 250 cannot determine if an object is silver or gold or ID it as such. It operates on the conductivity of an object and offers a probable ID not a 100% accurate one. The ID on coins is fairly accurate but can be fooled. Most silver will hit in the upper coin range. Gold will hit in the lower ranges, all the way down to foil, depending on composition, size, shape, position in ground, ground conditions.

Bill

 

[khouse]

Your detector has gold and silver listed on the face of your 250. As you can see it's a broad range. That is about as accurate as any detector on gold and silver jewelry. Sometimes I hunt for jewelry only and fill my pouch with pull tabs. Each tab I dig gets me that much closer to a ring. That's how you have to look at it.