WHAT hot weather? Got my Christmas tree today...:devil:

[slingshot]

Gave up on trying to find the gold rings by digging every nitpickin' little scratch that came on the Ace's speaker and started utilizing one of the Ace's great characteristics-the longer middle tone sound-or standard tone. From now on-since I don't have usually over an hour or three- I just dig the belltone or the drawn out standard tones. The buckets of pencil erasers, canslaw, and other trash I've been recovering all have an abbreviated standard tone, but the nickels and other questionable items stay a little longer. Well, my Christmas tree was in the pulltab area, as well as the friendship charm, but they had that telltale drawn-out sound so I gottem'. Sure is faster and funner this way!

 

[Uncle Willy]

You're learning. Nice finds.

Bill

 

[Graw]

n/t

 

[Roscue2]

n/t

 

[silvernail]

"Digger" had a note some time back on a technique he was using with the White's XL Pro and other detectors, and I noticed in the little time I have on the Ace 250 (esp. the Sniper coil) that it seems to work there too. Find a "good" sounding signal in Discriminate mode, criss-cross it and fool around with it as you like. Notice the SIZE aspects of the signal. It seems to me that a coin or other good target will generally sound fairly 'short" or "narrow" at the peak .. whatever. Go to the side and switch to Pinpoint mode and go back over the target. The audio signal will sound the same size, narrower, or wider and a little more drawn-out as you pass over it. If the signal definitely narrows down and seems smaller in size, that's a good sign. If it sounds wider and a tad more drawn out in the Pinpoint Mode, that is not such a good sign and the odds of "not coin or ring" go way up.

 

[slingshot]

"Digger" had a note some time back on a technique he was using with the White's XL Pro and other detectors, and I noticed in the little time I have on the Ace 250 (esp. the Sniper coil) that it seems to work there too. Find a "good" sounding signal in Discriminate mode, criss-cross it and fool around with it as you like. Notice the SIZE aspects of the signal. It seems to me that a coin or other good target will generally sound fairly 'short" or "narrow" at the peak .. whatever. Go to the side and switch to Pinpoint mode and go back over the target. The audio signal will sound the same size, narrower, or wider and a little more drawn-out as you pass over it. If the signal definitely narrows down and seems smaller in size, that's a good sign. If it sounds wider and a tad more drawn out in the Pinpoint Mode, that is not such a good sign and the odds of "not coin or ring" go way up.

thanks-I'll try that. The Ace definitely has more characteristics than I first thought and I'm sure others out there have some good info, also. I can't believe it sat in my closet for nearly 2 years.