SniffingBloodHound101
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Dear Fellow Hobbyist,
Of late, I have been considering purchasing a new detector.
I currently use a Tesoro Silver UMax, a detector made in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s. The detector I have detects metal great, I can find pull tabs, coins, nails, wire & all other kinds of metal fairly easy. I haven’t tested various valuable types of jewelry, relics, or coins because it’s my belief to get an accurate test the items would need to be buried & the soil naturally settle with extended rain to get a fair representation of real life conditions, something I wouldn’t want to do with valuables.
So what is available based on the information I have? Basically it almost seems I would not benefit from buying a new detector *BECAUSE* in order to train it like a dog I would need some of all the relics, jewelry, coins, gold, & whatever else I want to find to bury & set up the machine. So imagine paying close to $2000 + Tax for a new detector, going detecting & passing up a 10 carat diamond tennis bracelet because it was discriminated out of the search. What about an English broach dating to the 1700’s?? I don’t have one of those either! I can’t bring myself to understand how a computer can be better unless the software that tells the hardware what to do continually becomes smarter.
With each of the newer digital technology detectors I have looked at, they have different modes for the user to select as desired. I understand soil mineralization & the complications that could cause, but other than that reason I cannot convince myself why all those selections (beach, park, ballfield) would be needed. I don’t know a single person who would wish to only find coins & pass up other valuable items. If the reason is setting up the discrimination settings shouldn’t they essentially be the same no matter how much of it there is or where someone would be?
So, in order to be 100% sure I don’t pass up a very valuable piece of jewelry I have read many people’s opinions I should dig every detection. If that is the case and my older detector works fine (The one I gave $3 for at a Yard Sale) why would I need a newer detector and how would a newer detector benefit me & my hobby?
Looking forward to your response but I am not in a big hurry to get an answer. I have put a lot of effort into researching my view on this matter & I would appreciate a thorough response to help in my decision of: Should I buy a newer detector with new technology??
Before chiming in keep in mind the discrimination setting is used to block unwanted alerts, but those alerts could actually be something very valuable!
In addition to that, Problem #2 is really disappointing. I have a pinpointer, it detects metal which is why I bought it. My friend decided he needed one after seeing it work so I decided to give it to him and purchase a newer more expensive model to test. The new pinpointer arrived, I removed a few pieces of metal I use for tests and this pinpointer also fails to recognize a gold ring as metal. So what type pinpointer is needed to detect gold? The ring is a ladies, yes it’s thin but I would have expected 10k to be easily detected by a $125+ pinpointer! What exactly am I missing here!
Thanks in Advance for your time,
Barry
Of late, I have been considering purchasing a new detector.
I currently use a Tesoro Silver UMax, a detector made in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s. The detector I have detects metal great, I can find pull tabs, coins, nails, wire & all other kinds of metal fairly easy. I haven’t tested various valuable types of jewelry, relics, or coins because it’s my belief to get an accurate test the items would need to be buried & the soil naturally settle with extended rain to get a fair representation of real life conditions, something I wouldn’t want to do with valuables.
So what is available based on the information I have? Basically it almost seems I would not benefit from buying a new detector *BECAUSE* in order to train it like a dog I would need some of all the relics, jewelry, coins, gold, & whatever else I want to find to bury & set up the machine. So imagine paying close to $2000 + Tax for a new detector, going detecting & passing up a 10 carat diamond tennis bracelet because it was discriminated out of the search. What about an English broach dating to the 1700’s?? I don’t have one of those either! I can’t bring myself to understand how a computer can be better unless the software that tells the hardware what to do continually becomes smarter.
With each of the newer digital technology detectors I have looked at, they have different modes for the user to select as desired. I understand soil mineralization & the complications that could cause, but other than that reason I cannot convince myself why all those selections (beach, park, ballfield) would be needed. I don’t know a single person who would wish to only find coins & pass up other valuable items. If the reason is setting up the discrimination settings shouldn’t they essentially be the same no matter how much of it there is or where someone would be?
So, in order to be 100% sure I don’t pass up a very valuable piece of jewelry I have read many people’s opinions I should dig every detection. If that is the case and my older detector works fine (The one I gave $3 for at a Yard Sale) why would I need a newer detector and how would a newer detector benefit me & my hobby?
Looking forward to your response but I am not in a big hurry to get an answer. I have put a lot of effort into researching my view on this matter & I would appreciate a thorough response to help in my decision of: Should I buy a newer detector with new technology??
Before chiming in keep in mind the discrimination setting is used to block unwanted alerts, but those alerts could actually be something very valuable!
In addition to that, Problem #2 is really disappointing. I have a pinpointer, it detects metal which is why I bought it. My friend decided he needed one after seeing it work so I decided to give it to him and purchase a newer more expensive model to test. The new pinpointer arrived, I removed a few pieces of metal I use for tests and this pinpointer also fails to recognize a gold ring as metal. So what type pinpointer is needed to detect gold? The ring is a ladies, yes it’s thin but I would have expected 10k to be easily detected by a $125+ pinpointer! What exactly am I missing here!
Thanks in Advance for your time,
Barry
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