slipped disc said:
Goldpick said:
Lol, your pile of junk looks a bit like mine from tonight, I just have a lot more dirt included. I hunt the same with the Ace, just iron discriminated out, otherwise you are tempting fate by leaving possible good targets in the ground. Keep it up.
Hi GP. that's what confuses me. Can' t you use a mode with iron etc.-taken out and achieve same result,or is all metal more accurate.i read that with any descrim. the signal still goes thru a '' filter ''? so if that is the case, when could you use the coin etc modes and how accurate are they ?
The various discrimination patterns on the Ace are just a thing of convenience, essentially they are all just the same, only with different items notched out, or in the case of all-metal, nothing is selected. Essentially what I run for parks is the same as the relic mode - no iron. For the beach usually in all-metal due to more sparsely spaced targets.
If you read my most recent post on how running with several items being notched out will possibly mask out some good targets, hence why I run with minimal discrimination.
If you run in coin mode, and are in ground infested with little bits of foil wrappers, pull tabs etc, the signal will keep blanking out everytime you pass over one of these targets. It has more to do with recovery time of the on-board processor after passing over a target, but discriminating out items seems to makes it worse. I don't think the Ace filters the signal as such when dicriminating out targets, it simply blanks out the audio from notched out targets that you select to ignore. Hence when passing over notched out targets, you can still see the display arrow under that target flash up if that target is encountered.
Since most light foil and aluminium tends to sit pretty close to the surface, there is the distinct possibility that you just passed over a coin, but couldn't hear it due the Ace blanking out as it was trying to recover from one of these noisy foil targets to the next.
For me, I much prefer to listen to the normal response from each target vs using discrimination, there is a lot of info in them, just takes time to learn what it all means. Remember, constantly repeatable signals for coins are one of the biggest giveaways. Get a broken signal, bell tone only one direction, repeatable bell tone but with a signal cut on one swing, then generally it will be a junk target, or the coin is out of the effective reach of the Ace.
