Questions about the ID Edge...............

[Dig'n in Va.]

I'm hoping that the ID Edge has been out long enough for a fair number of people to have tried it in different areas and conditions and maybe have formed some opinions about it in comparison to others they've used.. I live & hunt in the nasty red dirt and I don't need an ID detector for that. I am very satisfied with another brand for the mineralized relic hunting. But I like to have an ID detector for yard hunting where I need to limit my holes. What I'm wondering is how the ID Edge compares to the Coinstrike & ID Excel ? I had played around a few times with the Excel and was thinking of getting one when the ID Edge was announced so I held off in case the Edge was an improved Excel? I owned and used a Coinstrike for quite awhile for both yard & relic hunting but finally got rid of it and kept my CZ6a that I've had since it was new. I'll probably never part with my CZ, I know it so well and I've used it for many years with the 10.5" coil for relics as my bad dirt hunter since it is not affected by hot rocks & electrical interference and can do some things the CS couldn't. For yards and coin hunting, the 5" coil is hard to beat, especially for depth. But in yards I'm not concerned with great depths, mostly just more refined ID and see thru abilities. In this department the Excel seemed pretty impressive.. So I guess my question really amounts to this-- what, if any, advantage does the ID Edge have over the ID Excel in ID'ing targets and picking thru nails & yard trash for coins & jewelry ?......I have settled down to two solid relic hunters and I have a couple of other "oldies", along with my CZ, that I'll probably always keep even if for only sentimental reasons..But now I'm trying to decide whether to go for the Excel or the Edge as my new yard toy.......Dave

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Hi Dave

I don't have a lot of time on it yet, but so far so good other than a slight propensity to see deep small rusty wire and nails as good until you take a bit of dirt off. They are easy to tell due to the weak audio and P/P so really not a problem and to be honest I'd rather it did see them than not. Other than that, there does not appear to be any compromises with the increased gain over the Excel. I'm not sure yet, but the increased gain may not be helping as much as I had hoped for on the small low conductors. Perhaps they keyed it more to the mid and upper conductivity range? Like I said not for sure on that yet.

I'm going to try to hunt a field today with lots of big iron and uneven ground which gives the Advantage and 1270 (among others) problems with iron falsing. Hopefully the snow won't be to deep there.

Tom

 

[Anonymous]

The Edge is Deeper. If you run extremely low iron out, and center the loop, most problems will go away. But you should try a CZ70Pro. Its a LOT
deeper than analog version of CZ. I run gain wide open, but also run disc
at '0' which stops iron from falsing thru.