canslawhero

congrats! posts like this are bound to bring a lot of conversions from other mfg'ers detectors... and etrac/ctx users, lol

did you look for an 'S' on the back of your '08 IH? congrats on the several firsts you had. I hadn't found an IH for several years and scored an 1865 in nice shape just today, pretty happy with it. Still want to find a seated and especially a standing liberty quarter. Good luck on the $5 gold, I think you've got a very good shot at it, especially with some research into more old locales....

UNREAL! congrats....what's the name of that park again, lol

Tyran, big thanks, I was too lazy to do what you did... I'm going to incorporate this info into my park 1 settings and give it a shot today, cheers heck, enough loonies and toonies and it'll pay for itself, lol

I tried several variations and for me the WM-08 + my over-ear Sennheiser HD515's are the cat's meow.... very very crisp precise tones and I've been running the horseshoe button with T1 zone set to 1. audio nirvana, lol I use an aftermarket 3.5mm cord (short) for the headphones...never any 'dropout' issues either.

it is a cutting edge machine for non-ferrous items.....modern Canadian clad is steel core, ferrous.... and the older 'nickel' core coinage has a ferrous component, hence it's being magnetic...bouncy readings... now the deeper, older silver/copper coinage is where it will shine, ask me how I know, lol

simply not the right machine if you want to dig Cdn clad. I've had mine for a while now and have only found a few of the earlier 'nickel' based clad coins, some by accident, ie co-located with a copper penny. if you really want to try to ID them then hit the horseshoe button and experiment with where they show up in the ferrous T1 area. I believe the nickel coins bounce around 16-17 or there-a-bout.... sorry I can't help more but I use a dedicated machine for clad....cheers

good advice Bryan, I'll give that a try next time I'm out....if depth can be judged it would indeed be very useful (I am a very neat digger btw and right now it's all deadsville in the parks due to the big freeze)

I'll add that I don't use pinpoint....feel my time is better spent just digging it....ymmv

Sunday/Monday were nice days up here in the far north also so got out for about 2 hours each day. Note that by the time I hit 2 hours I'm very tired (probably have a few years on you Brian @ 67). I've been working on that issue exactly but from the standpoint of better utilizing my time, ie how not to dig newer copper pennies and try to differentiate toward the deeper ones that could be older. Audio volume nuance is critical and I've become a fan of using the coil lift to try and gauge depth (provided meter is pretty useless). I am getting better though I'm sure I'll probably eventually get most of the obvious copper pennies. Not many silver dimes here but I got one that was a softer 22-23 (trashy area). nearby was a nail and the ubiquitous copper penny. So moral of the story is don't believe what you see (ID's) and any doubt investigate. I'm pretty certain I wouldn't have dug any of those flattened cans (or at least I hope so). cheers and hope you get on another gold coin to show Tom, lol

I hit the horseshoe button with the zone 1 (T1) volume set down to 1, works like a champ...

you should have that etrac buy you a lottery ticket, lol

Lou's Theorem: For every VDI # (or range of #'s) you wish to dig, there will be an infinite number of misshapen (or not) pieces of aluminum to produce it exactly.

the day it was announced I saw the specs and told my dealer I wanted one, put me on the list... I believe that was Saturday, Sept 16th...I was #1 on the list and received 1 of 2 my dealer received. "a nod is the same as a wink to a blind horse"

thanks Steve, good advice...I actually thought about trying to clean out a smaller section (would give me a chance to use gold mode, lol). so initially (upon the great thaw) I'll just go with the defaults and simply see how it works out with coin size targets in Park 1 here....it's painful not being able to dig, lol as an aside I never ground balance my G2+, just turn on and go but I'm just looking for shallow (< 6") stuff with it...cheers

just used the video to setup my 800, nice! curious if I now change to 2 tone and set things up there will the custom 5 tone settings be ok..... I'll try it out....

nice writeup Dan, very useful...when you say manual GB, you mean you did the 'pump' method to set the GB? if so, what was the GB number it settled on?

hey Mark, so the default of GB 0 still got you decent depth.... once my ground thaws I'll just have to experiment a bit and first off just see what kind of depth I get on decent coin size targets with the default settings. I'll also try 'auto tracking' in the mix to see how that works, wish I knew more about it, ie how much bandwidth is it taking up and can these noisy ground conditions drive the 'auto tracking' batty and just not allow it to function properly. time will tell.

guess everyone is as dumbfounded as I am, lol

Took my 800 to a local (big city) park just to try it out (our ground is frozen solid here). very nice ergos, settings easy to use, etc...but I simply couldn't find a 'clean' spot to ground balance! 'Hot' detectors have this as a side effect I guess....I lowered the sense but to no avail. I didn't feel comfortable just turning on auto tracking so I decided to just bump the GB up manually from the default 0 to 6. I'm pretty bothered by this so I'm looking for suggestions, advice.... Also I would be curious to see what other users are seeing for a GB # relative to their understanding of their areas mineralization level.

looks like your Equinox is doing well for you....

decided to take my 800 to a local (big city) park to see about the 'noise issue'. ground is frozen solid and will be for some time but today was nice so what the heck.... very nice ergos, settings easy to use, etc...but dang I couldn't find a 'clean' spot to ground balance! uncomfortable running auto tracking so I decided to just up the GB from 0 to 6....kind of stuck here. advice? and can folks let me know what # their ground GB's to? lots of chatter so moved the sense down to 17 on park 1....usable, I'll just get used to the ground chatter... came across some decent, what I assume were penny signals, depth guage is pretty much maxed on most of these 25ish signals with some jumping around.... really looking forward to the thaw to see how deep these are...looks like the last of the pennies here will be easy to pick out...

now that's good news!

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