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It's not much but it is my first gold of the year . It passes the magnet test except for the clasp .Today I wanted to give a trial run to used coinsweep coil I bought for my Tesoro built Troy X-2 . I went to a wood chip tot lot I hadn't been to in quite some time . My first couple off passes I used the coinsweep .It made the detector front heavy and it wasn't long before I had to start switching arms.
It can be made to feel a little lighter by reversing the coil so the shorter back half of the coil is toward the front ( of course I didn't bother to do that). It does pick off the surface coins quite well but compared to the Troy Super 7 coil all the signals sound muffled ( this is to be expected when using a significantly larger coil) . It also doesn't help that the X-2 can't be manually ground balanced .
I had read where under ideal circumstances it could go up to 5 deep . Obviously I must not have had the ideal conditions because getting anything over 2 deep seemed an impossibility .
I switched back to the stock 7 coil and began to find lot's of items I had missed ( deeper and closer to the metal bars) .I had apparently gone over the gold bracelet with the larger coil and missed it , it was just under the surface of the wood chips .
It takes a bit of practice to pinpoint with the coinsweep and a few times I just resorted to using my Garrett's Pro-pointer to put me out of my misery . The acid in the tan bark can really make a coin hard to see against the chips.I was using 0 discriminationand the sensitivity was set to just below chatter , I also dug a large amount of foil ,eraser clasps and extremely small pieces of metal ( I dug every signal ) .
It was good to get out again and play with one of my detectors and dig a lot of targets for a change but hopefully I find a new spot with a little silver coinage in it and soon.
Baba
It can be made to feel a little lighter by reversing the coil so the shorter back half of the coil is toward the front ( of course I didn't bother to do that). It does pick off the surface coins quite well but compared to the Troy Super 7 coil all the signals sound muffled ( this is to be expected when using a significantly larger coil) . It also doesn't help that the X-2 can't be manually ground balanced .
I had read where under ideal circumstances it could go up to 5 deep . Obviously I must not have had the ideal conditions because getting anything over 2 deep seemed an impossibility .
I switched back to the stock 7 coil and began to find lot's of items I had missed ( deeper and closer to the metal bars) .I had apparently gone over the gold bracelet with the larger coil and missed it , it was just under the surface of the wood chips .
It takes a bit of practice to pinpoint with the coinsweep and a few times I just resorted to using my Garrett's Pro-pointer to put me out of my misery . The acid in the tan bark can really make a coin hard to see against the chips.I was using 0 discriminationand the sensitivity was set to just below chatter , I also dug a large amount of foil ,eraser clasps and extremely small pieces of metal ( I dug every signal ) .
It was good to get out again and play with one of my detectors and dig a lot of targets for a change but hopefully I find a new spot with a little silver coinage in it and soon.
Baba
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