how far in the ground does the medal detector detect stuff?
1195210
I have found things as deep as 2 feet, but I have not really used it much for deep soil searching. Use it mostly for shallow searching because it is a lot harder to find deeper.
1195211
You can set it for different depths and certain metals. We put it at medium depth and that is approx 8 inches deep round about.lot of fun and if we get a beep it is never wrong.
1195212
My son has found things around 3 foot under but its also detected things that even after digging wasn't found so Utah detect even further.
1195213
You can set it for different depths and certain metals. We put it at medium depth and that is approx 8 inches deep round about. lot of fun and if we get a beep it is never wrong.
1195214
2-3 inches on dime on mild soil. if you are new looking for fun detecting i suggest look for f2 or EurotekPro. you wont be disappointed. goodluck!
666150
I think they consider 4 feet away to be ideal. You should also note the detector will only work on panel doors (you mount it on the top panel) and not solid one piece doors the swing upwards or carriage style.
2222446
It would only give you the distance from the device itself to the target, or direct line of sight distance. It doesn't calculate "drop" from a higher vantage point.
690406
I've owned this detector for a couple of years. It has performed well. To respond to your question; No consumer grade metal detector I am aware of is sensitive to the physical shape of any metal. There need only be an adequate amount of that metal for the detector coil chosen to sense a 'return' and transmit that back to the display. Certain coils are wound to better detect gold than others. If gold is what you're going for I suggest you look into also picking up a gold finding coil from BountyHunter.
2059466
I'm not sure what the published strenghth is from the manufacturer, but it was very weak in finding even basic items. We returned the detector because it performed so poorly.
743880
Yes it will Sally , It will detect any kind of metal and it would be very helpful if you had another platinum ring or a piece of platinum to see what numeric value the detector would read it as .
2027588
It can detect a dime at 9-10 inches in good soil and ID it correctly. Larger objects, deeper. Deeper than that, an object near it's limit of detection, typically will ID as iron on VLF machines. As my location has very bad soil, I am routinely limited to 3-5 inches, and quickly learned that depth is not they key characteristic you look for. The E-Trac's seperation (between targets and trash) and ability to detect coins on edge make seperate it from other detectors.
1516751
You cannot see the shape of the target on the screen, only a bargraph indicating conductivity and a grid showing approximate size and depth. The maximum depth that it can detect is about 1/3 of a meter.
1281004
It should.. these sensors detect distances (from the sensors to the object that is close)
2196177
I would buy a better metal detector. ... this one is very cheap. ... u need to be really close to the metal in order for it to detect.
171438
I would say about a foot down. I never use it on the highest sensitivity because it picks up lots of metal fragments and there to deep to dig. Sometimes it beeps and there's nothing there when I dig, so whatever it is, its got to be pretty deep down. I would also recommend a hand metal detector to shift through the dirt, because it takes a while to separate the earth to find a coin or ring.
370331
No it's not. It has a range of about 2 inches and, as the name indicates, is designed to pinpoint the location of a metal object once a larger metal detector has shown metal to be in the general area.
1070464
I placed the Frostfire about 8-9 feet off the ground and find that it responds to movement within a 10 ft. radius. I have a porch light at the door which is about 20 feet from the motion light. It does not interfere with the motion detector.
598097
Definatly, this works very well at finding metal. It does not work so well at detecting the DIFFERANCE between metals. We normally find old steel nails even just tiny rusted pieces of them as far as 6" below compact ground. My guess is you will be looking for steel posts just under the leaves, the key is you will need to pass the detector DIRECTLY OVER THE post you are looking for. Its not going to tell you "if your close", a metal object on the ground within an inch of the outer ring will not set it off it must pass over the object to set it off. Hope this helps
263081
If there is metal below the surface of the ground it will signal the presence of it. So if you can bring it closer to the ground it should work up to four inches above the ground.
263080
Sure its metal and brass is a great conductor, but this is a hand held small device usually used after a larger device narrows down an area so you can pinpoint it fast. This means you have to be pretty close to the ground and wanding the area and it will activate within a couple inches probably not more than 4 inches away. If there is a lot of metal trash in the area it will pick it up too. If the casings are on top the ground and there is not a lot of metal trash debris a cheap metal detector would most likely do fine as well.
1806853
It measures ground level zero wherever you press the lauch button, example,if you press the launch button on the ground it will calculate that as zero, if you press the launch button 3 feet off the ground it will calculate that as zero,i tried this, with a confirmed hight of 125 feet it was accurate at ground level and off 3 feet when launched at waist level,so I would say yes it should work fine