Recovery speed eye opener....

[jbow]

I have both an I think you can probably clean a site out with either one, (I know you can if you have both). They are both top notch machines I will not part with either one.

J

 

[johnnywilliamson]

In my opiniion, the only thing the video demonstrates is the SE's ability to recover IN THE PLANE/DIRECTION THE COIL WAS SWUNG. Digitrich makes an excellent point that if the coil were swung in the opposite direction initially, the coin would have sounded off first, and the nail would not have masked its presence. Seems to me a perfect example of the necessity to cover a good site from many different angles to help avoid the masking of good targets from certain angles or nearness to trash objects. Johnny

 

[BlackX]

I'm still wondering why 25+ freqs is better when 1 will detect the same things.... If you need extra freqs to get a better ID, then you're probably hunting in a "trashier" area which puts you back to needing faster recovery.

It doesn't have to do with trash, it has to do with finding the best frequency(ies) to see through the soil's mineral content. That's the theory anyway and given the well-earned reputation the Explorer and Sovereigns have for depth--and add in that Whites thought so too and licensed the tech for their DFX--I'd say it works pretty well. But one of the costs of getting depth is the processor time to run the calculations which is what slows the machine down.

Do most of you leave things in the ground based on the Explorer telling you it's a pull tab or foil?

See the "depth dilemma" thread for more discussions on that but my short answer is, in trashy sites with modern garbage, a definite "yes, all the time" (usually including the indication on the depth meter of it being shallow).

 

[digitrich]

n/t

 

[EARTHLINGX]

if you notice in the video he only goes across the targets from his forward stance...... he does NOT go at it at 90 degree's to it..... EXAMPLE: if you see an area that you want to WORK and say that area is about a 1/4 sq. mile; when you WORK the area i have found that if i break the area down into APPROX. 50 sq. ft. x 50 sq. ft. sections and WORK each section North to South then go back over the same section East to West and then go back over the same section again North east to South west or 45 degrees to it then you DONT MISS anything..... so no matter what detector you have you are going to hit more targets and rarely miss anything..... for the electronic detectors it will prove even more beneficial for recover speed times for that detector because coming at the sections from these 3 different angles for each section you WONT MISS