Quattro

[Irishman]

My Quattro reads coins from the copper penny,clad dime, silver dime, clad quarter, silver quarter to silver half

all read 36or 38. This is not giving any I. D. on the coins.

Me and my son have other detectors costing less that half of the quattro that I. D. the coins much better

Does antone else have this problem??? or is my machine falty?? Anxious to hear.

 

[Ratman]

Hi Irishman it sounds like your machine is working fine cause those numbers are correct depending on which mode your in settings etc . Good luck .

 

[backslyder]

You know this isn't an exact science, yet, but my Quatro almost always reads a penny at a 34, dime at about 35 or 36, and quartrer a little higher. I don't have the detector here to try all those out, but to me, it's pretty deliniated at least between a penny and a dime or a penny and a quarter. Sometimes the dime and quarter read about the same, but to me, that's not a big enough deal, because I'd still like to dig either one. I'd like to know what "other" detector your using that reads them better, and in what way does it read them better. Be a little more specific, if you would. Marc.

 

[Irishman]

I also have the Titan 3000XD made by Bounty hunter, My son has the Bounty Hunter Pioneer and the Garrett CX

all of these do a better job of I. D. on the coins. Don't get me wrong they are not always perfect but are better on I. D. then my Quattro.

I feel like a 900.00 dollar machine should do better than a 300. 00 dollar machine.

I understand that the mint uses different metals in the coins and will give different readings. However the more expensive machine should do at least as well.

Costomer Service has said that I could send it in for them to look at I will do that but I am under the weather now. Just got out of Hospital

Thanks for your concern

 

[Black Davy]

Irishman,

I never really pay attention to the exact number, if its reading coins I am digging no matter what. I do know the nickle always reads the same number, dang its been a long winter I forget 15 or 16, oh well it will ring load and clear when I hit one. Pennys jump around on my Garrett GTAx550, depending on age alot of the newer ones read in the rings area but the tone is different. I guess I would say it's working fine and the number may very depending on the metal content due to its age and how long or what kind of ground its in. Some of the newer pennies really blister in a high acid content pond or ground and will change how it reads. The quattro may in fact be giving you a more acurate reading of the coins due to some of these factors.

 

[backslyder]

Irishman, I'm honestly not trying to "just give you a hard time", but I'm not sure where your coming from on this one. I used to own a bounty hunter, and although it was an older one, it couldn't even touch my Quatro for depth, numeric readings, knotching out of trash, etc., but honestly, how does your bounty hunter ID the coins better than the Quatro? In what way? I'm afraid you need to be more specific here. Marc.

 

[backslyder]

This post of yours is "knawing at my guts" a bit, because I'm not sure, exactly what your looking for, and the fact that your getting a 36 or 38 on a penny, concerns me. I almost always get a 34 on a penny, unless it's solid copper, it might be higher, but the other thing is, I'm wondering if you've read Andy Sabisches book Mastering the Quatro. He goes into much more than the instruction manual does, and goes into a thing called cross-saving, where you can save the audio to different modes and use either the ferrous or counductive audio to decern different readings on different objects, and believe me, some of them will come up different depending on the audio. In other words, you can use the audio as a kind of "help mate" in conjunction with the numeric readings to try and "make a decision" on whether to dig or not. I also know that a nickel on my detector comes up at about a number 16, which is quite a different number than a 34 for a penny or a 38 or 39 for silver coins. Sometimes even the difference in the tone or sound of two objects, even though they're the same number can help you decide what kind of metal, or object it might be. Check out Andy's book. Marc.

 

[nc-joe]

Marc, I think what he is getting at the the spread in numbers. For instance, my DFX will give a 61 on a zinc penny, a 75 on a copper penny, an 80 on a dime and 84 on a quarter. The range between target numbers is large enough to identify what coin you have. I noticed when I had a Sovereign with a TID meter calibrated to 180 all coins came in as 177-179 with no real way to tell if it was a penny or a quarter.

 

[backslyder]

Ah ha!!! That does make sense, and maybe Minelab should take notice of that. That makes a lot of sense to me. Marc.

 

[JJ]

backslyder, when a BH goes over a PENNY it points to PENNY. when it goes over a DIME it points to DIME. are you seeing the pattern yet? no density or atomic weight is necessary to tell me its a PENNY. WOW! I like cruising other forums in hopes of expanding my detector collection, but i think i'll scratch the Quattro off my list of potential future machines. I read plenty in this post.

 

[backslyder]

Sorry, JJ. I admit I probably get too worked up about this stuff, sometimes, and I really do love my Quatro, but I also trying to make intelligent responses on the forum, but...... it wasn't till nc-joe explained to me the kind of better separation of numbers and stuff ( I think is how he explained it for his DFX) that I started to understand what Irishman was probably saying at the first of this thread. Sounds like, Mine lab might need to take notice of that and try and improve the separation a bit. I don't mind too much, because most of the good coins are in that small group from around 34 to 38 or so, but it would be nice, to be able to delineate the different coins, as you guys are talking about. Marc.