Gold numbers on At Pro
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fogcity
Elite Member
What does everyone's experience show --
Does white gold generically tend to read lower than yellow gold, as indicated here?
Does white gold generically tend to read lower than yellow gold, as indicated here?
scout23
Elite Member
I checked and white gold is gold mixed with palladium and silver, or occasionally platinum. It said white gold used in jewelry today is plated with Rhodium. Rhodium is a member of the platinum family. They coat it by electroplating. Maybe that is why it reads lower, but why would the 2 yellow gold rings be so far apart.
i'm guessin because of the thickness
scout23
Elite Member
That's what I was thinkin too, but if they're made up as the same metal(14k) wouldn't the difference just show up on the "depth" meter? The thicker ring would appear closer because of the larger surface area. Don't know just find it weird, sure it's just not the AT that would ring these all differently. I know I'll be digging alot more of these signals.
pulltabMiner
Forum Supporter
Yeah, gold will most definitely come up in those 'trash' ranges.
The larger the ring, the higher it seems to read. Ladies rings with stones often hit on the foil (40's) range.
I recently had a surface find of a 14K gold chain. On my AT Pro, it reads like a solid nickel.
With my Ace 250 however, all the gold I ever found read as a penny.
The larger the ring, the higher it seems to read. Ladies rings with stones often hit on the foil (40's) range.
I recently had a surface find of a 14K gold chain. On my AT Pro, it reads like a solid nickel.
With my Ace 250 however, all the gold I ever found read as a penny.
BottlecapBill
Senior Member
readings
Interesting. All the gold I found with my ace 250(this is my first season hunting) was bang on the pull tab mark with maybe the odd flucutation one up or down on land and right on the penny maker in the water, which is still in the gold "zone". All of those numbers the OP posted are well within the gold zone. Size, composition, depth, soil, all affect the readings. Looks pretty normal to me.
Interesting. All the gold I found with my ace 250(this is my first season hunting) was bang on the pull tab mark with maybe the odd flucutation one up or down on land and right on the penny maker in the water, which is still in the gold "zone". All of those numbers the OP posted are well within the gold zone. Size, composition, depth, soil, all affect the readings. Looks pretty normal to me.
WildDigger
Elite Member
The one gold ring I found rang up 45-47. It was a small ladies 18k ring.
scout23
Elite Member
One 14k gold ring I found with the Ace 250 rang up as foil. But on the AT Pro it rang up as a nickle. I should have used that one in the comparrison also.
NHKeith
Forum Supporter
I found one 14k gold ladies ring, and it was 45-47 on the AT Pro
BottlecapBill
Senior Member
gold zone
Not sure if the AT pro has the same "Gold Zone" scale printed on the face plate for standard mode or not. If it does, you don't want to disc out anything in that zone. It's a pain to dig up all the foil(I wish they would ban foil) but.....it must be done to find gold.
Not sure if the AT pro has the same "Gold Zone" scale printed on the face plate for standard mode or not. If it does, you don't want to disc out anything in that zone. It's a pain to dig up all the foil(I wish they would ban foil) but.....it must be done to find gold.
wayne1956
Junior Member
Think about it tho. A silver dime reads lower than a silver half. They are both made of the same alloy, 90% silver. It is the same concept. It is reading higher due to the size of the ring.
Hook
Elite Member
thats weird because i've found 4 gold rings..3 bands and one with 13 stones in it..and they all rang up as a nickel on my 250. but the small one gram gold bar i found rang up as foil.
Onaug
Elite Member
I'm guessing size, shape, compositions(gold mixed with what for that K), and possible orientation all contribute to the ## readout.
Onaug
Elite Member
http://metaldetectingforum.com/group.php?do=discuss&gmid=5753
How is that chart working out Pulltabminer? I remembered you posting this a while back. Someone else posted a simplified version of basically the same thing on another forum but I am having difficulty finding it. Only a couple numbers were off by a count or two. I figure hitting the most likely the first time out real good, the just likely ones the next trip, and then the maybes on the third trip. Hopefully skipping straight to some gold the first trip then clean up the rest of the targets after. Can systematically remove some like object masking this way too I believe. I'm just musing.
How is that chart working out Pulltabminer? I remembered you posting this a while back. Someone else posted a simplified version of basically the same thing on another forum but I am having difficulty finding it. Only a couple numbers were off by a count or two. I figure hitting the most likely the first time out real good, the just likely ones the next trip, and then the maybes on the third trip. Hopefully skipping straight to some gold the first trip then clean up the rest of the targets after. Can systematically remove some like object masking this way too I believe. I'm just musing.
BottlecapBill
Senior Member
at pro
I've seen some videos of guys not too impressed with the AT pro depths. Mostly the targets are picked up but, a gold ring will tone in as junk past about 6 inches or not even be picked up. So depth, soil conditions and your particular machine all see to play on the VDI. I have no idea how these machines are set up so take it with a grain of salt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIZfo2Q-WGY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfsL1I2EIww&feature=related
There are a couple.
I've seen some videos of guys not too impressed with the AT pro depths. Mostly the targets are picked up but, a gold ring will tone in as junk past about 6 inches or not even be picked up. So depth, soil conditions and your particular machine all see to play on the VDI. I have no idea how these machines are set up so take it with a grain of salt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIZfo2Q-WGY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfsL1I2EIww&feature=related
There are a couple.
