Ace 250 falsing and fix

[Goldpick]

Just someting to consider for owners of the Ace250, is the falsing that occurs at high sensitvity setting may not be ground conditions or junk setting it off, but the coil picking up movement of the lower sections of the coil cable. The ace tends to like high swing speeds, and as a result, can set off falsing from cable movement. You will not notice it a 60-70% sensitivity, but wind it up further, and you may start hearing the odd unexplained bell tone or signal, often not repeatable, and also occurs if you hit the ground or other objects with the coil.

The fix for this, along with many other detectors (same with my Infinium), is to run the coil cable straight up the shaft from the coil up the lower section of the shaft, hence preventing the coil from sounding off on the cable movement as if it were a target. Also ensure the is enough cable at the coil end to allow free movement whe pivoting the coil, then tape up the cable to the top of the bottom section of the detector shaft. From here up you can coil the cable to the control box, firm but not over tight.

So basically you are preventing signals from the cable movement competing with signals from objects in the ground, especially if running high sensitivity for deeper targets in areas like dry beach sand. It is something pretty simple, but often overlooked by many a detectorist.

 

[Sa_bogan]

Well I'm glad the coil cable on the ctx is spring like and is run through the whole shaft to control box