basstrackerman
Elite Member
I used the 540 several times now here in southern Alabama. Areas mixed with red clayish dirt . It did very good. Found a deep wheat penny about 8" and a solid 26 . Clear signal and deep in this dirt. Also found a pendant at a solid 16 about 7-8" deep. All of the other coins were solid ID's but were not deep. All aluminum trash was mixed ID's and tones sounded hollow. I live close to the beach so that is where it will get most of it's use. I have the Nox 800 and Deus and ORX. The 540 is the perfect turn on and go detector with very nice clear tones that really anyone could use and find really nice stuff. It's perfect for the friend that isn't very good at detecting but wants to try. Also nice just to keep in your car or truck for the park or school or beach you want to scout. I see a lot of great uses for this detector. Some of the coins I found along with the wheaty did have some small rusty iron bits of pieces of nails with them in the hole. So it's not completely dead in the nails. It's very good in the parks and school yards where there are very little nails and lots of aluminum trash and bottle caps. As far as price goes, for $499 it does come with nox headphones and extra coil so I do feel it's a great value over the nox 600. It's collapsablity is another great feature. I'm tall and most of the nokta makro detectors do not extend far enough or are at the edge of length for me and that makes them flimsy or wobble some. The 540 extends alot further than I need and is solid with zero wobble.. for us tall guys that means alot
