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« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2014, 06:23:35 am »
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So now I have found my first beer can using a metal detector on the beach.

It seems my metal detector's coil plug doesn't stay pushed in all the way home so I had to hold it in place while detecting. So that's most likely what the original problem was. (good call Ridge runner.)



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« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2014, 12:07:03 pm »
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Having a look at your photos looked like you had the sensitivity to minimum and the discrimination quite high. You should start with the discrimination to low and the sensitivity to 50%.

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« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2014, 03:54:10 pm »
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Thanks for the tip. I'm sure it'll all start making sense to me once I practice passing the detector over various types of metals. Although I've read that air testing is still not the same as ground testing.
I only had about 10 minutes to spare yesterday for actual detecting . I'm hoping that today I can check the property we live on. I am  hopeful as it's littered with quartz, and it's on a slope which could indicate that the old timers didn't work it. And it's 20 acres. Mind you, I tried my hand at panning in the creek at the bottom of the hill and didn't find a speck but I may have chosen the wrong spot for panning.

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« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2014, 10:39:16 pm »
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The main things about air testing and the actual metal in the ground are that when metal is in the ground for a period of time the oxide from the metal is spread around the object creating a sort of halo increasing the detection depth of the object, an air test is still a good reference to how well the detector works. The more you use your detector the better you will get to know it and you will be able to find more objects with it.

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« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2014, 06:23:55 am »
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Interesting. So it's not necessarily worse . I figured highly mineralized soils make it a bit more difficult.

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Thanks for the tip. I'm sure it'll all start making sense to me once I practice passing the detector over various types of metals. Although I've read that air testing is still not the same as ground testing.
I only had about 10 minutes to spare yesterday for actual detecting . I'm hoping that today I can check the property we live on. I am  hopeful as it's littered with quartz, and it's on a slope which could indicate that the old timers didn't work it. And it's 20 acres. Mind you, I tried my hand at panning in the creek at the bottom of the hill and didn't find a speck but I may have chosen the wrong spot for panning.

Where about are you?
if there was gold in your area at any time they will records of it somewhere.

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« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2014, 07:01:16 pm »
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Well, I had a little time today to take my metal detector around the block, but it's acting up again and not giving me a signal on anything,

Just not giving me a signal on any thing at all. Pushing the plug in isn't helping. Cry

I sure hope it doesn't need a new set of 9V batteries every day. No way Jose.

As far as the historical records, all I have found so far is that there has been gold mined within a 20 km radius of where we live. But not specifically on this property.



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« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2014, 09:06:12 pm »
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Seems to me that there is a bad connection probably a component that was not soldered properly, take a magnifying glass and have a look at the PCB for a poor solder

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« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2014, 06:04:41 am »
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I can't tell if this is normal or not. This is the little circuit board where the plug plugs in.

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« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2014, 04:15:55 pm »
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Looks OK to me, look on the main PCB and move the components with your finger to make sure that non of them move. This could take you a while but I can't see how else you will be able to find the fault. 

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