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...are so hard to pick up and silver ones don't seem to come in where they should.
I just answered another post about this but I honestly don't have a logical answer.
I have come across a few funny things in my short travels through this md world of ours.
One that surprised me was if you throw down a quarter, or a bunch of quarters, I mean a whole lot of them they should come in as a high tone like they should.
Now if you take 50 of those quarters and put them in a roll and scan that, guess what...high tone quarter signal?
Nope, on my F2 I tried this with the signal was IRON!
Now Rudy explained this phenomena and it got another little discussion going on digging it all, which I usually do, and he suggested another experiment to do, as did Steve in AZ.
Evidently, all detectors can go nuts under the right set of circumstances.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=56924
Steve in Az suggested, and rightly so in my opinion, that these are very good reasons to learn to hunt by sound and not by just what is on our screens.
However, sometimes even these can try to fool you too.
My question for this particular thread is this...
Why can my Compadre, which is so sensitive it can pick up one tiny lone bead from the kind of chain that comes on nail clippers, can have so much trouble picking up a silver chain in the high end on my disc.
What I mean is on almost any object big or small that is silver the disc will max out...you can't disc these things out.
Now here is the weird part...
The chain you see below could only be picked up between foil and iron.
Even the clasp, which is much bigger than that little bead, will fade out at nickel and go no higher.
That's if the coil is almost touching it too, and this is because you lose depth as you add more disc. (Newbies, write that down).
If I take the clasp off the chain will my Compadre then act normally like it would with a silver dime or other silver object?
I have a theory that it might the chain part that is causing our detectors to act a little loopy because I have read plenty other posts from people that experienced the same thing.
I suspect part of the reason is that by design most detectors were made to sense round coin and ring like objects, not chain shapes.
As a matter of fact, I think chains confuse them.
Not sure if that's the answer, but all I know is silver chains, unless they are huge and thick, don't show up as silver.
Foil to nickel, yes...silver, no.
I have tested this with several chains and 3 detectors and it seems to hold true.
So riddle me this, Batman...why?
I just answered another post about this but I honestly don't have a logical answer.
I have come across a few funny things in my short travels through this md world of ours.
One that surprised me was if you throw down a quarter, or a bunch of quarters, I mean a whole lot of them they should come in as a high tone like they should.
Now if you take 50 of those quarters and put them in a roll and scan that, guess what...high tone quarter signal?
Nope, on my F2 I tried this with the signal was IRON!
Now Rudy explained this phenomena and it got another little discussion going on digging it all, which I usually do, and he suggested another experiment to do, as did Steve in AZ.
Evidently, all detectors can go nuts under the right set of circumstances.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=56924
Steve in Az suggested, and rightly so in my opinion, that these are very good reasons to learn to hunt by sound and not by just what is on our screens.
However, sometimes even these can try to fool you too.
My question for this particular thread is this...
Why can my Compadre, which is so sensitive it can pick up one tiny lone bead from the kind of chain that comes on nail clippers, can have so much trouble picking up a silver chain in the high end on my disc.
What I mean is on almost any object big or small that is silver the disc will max out...you can't disc these things out.
Now here is the weird part...
The chain you see below could only be picked up between foil and iron.
Even the clasp, which is much bigger than that little bead, will fade out at nickel and go no higher.
That's if the coil is almost touching it too, and this is because you lose depth as you add more disc. (Newbies, write that down).
If I take the clasp off the chain will my Compadre then act normally like it would with a silver dime or other silver object?
I have a theory that it might the chain part that is causing our detectors to act a little loopy because I have read plenty other posts from people that experienced the same thing.
I suspect part of the reason is that by design most detectors were made to sense round coin and ring like objects, not chain shapes.
As a matter of fact, I think chains confuse them.
Not sure if that's the answer, but all I know is silver chains, unless they are huge and thick, don't show up as silver.
Foil to nickel, yes...silver, no.
I have tested this with several chains and 3 detectors and it seems to hold true.
So riddle me this, Batman...why?