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laserart
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Tell what you have learned about your Ace 250 here in this thread.
"If I had a nickel for every nickel I ever had, I'd have all my nickels back".
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laserart
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<< <i>Aluminum drives me crazy. Go out to the park for a relaxing evening of MDing but thinking all those nickel hits are nickels like a good MDer I dig em up. Just a S**tload of shreaded pop cans. Other then that its a damn fun little machine especially for the price. >>
My Minelab e-trac still gives a nickel-ish signal for can shreds, so it's not only the Ace 250 that does this. I feel your pain as well.
<< <i>Does your minelab give a different tone with aluminum then actual nickel. Ive been trying to determin it with my machine but I cant really pick up a sound difference. >>
in a controlled environment at home there is a slight tone difference.
a piece of shredded aluminum can comes in with the lowest tone
the nickel is the middle tone
and the pull tab is the "highest" tone of the three
a full aluminum can sounds like a large silver coin
In the field, it's much harder to determine the difference between three low tones especially since gold will be somewhere in there too giving a fourth low tone. That's why it's best to just dig everything if you have the time. Usually nickels come up as a "12-13" on the e-trac, and it's fairly constant, but just re-ran the shield nickel I found and it came up as a different reading.
I look at it as even though it's probably a piece of aluminum, you're cleaning up the area and reducing the risk of someone cutting their foot. I also equate it to finding a Zincoln. Sure I dig those even tho they don't have much value. So just consider aluminum signals as cents, haha.
Do you use headphones? I never did until I got my minelab, and what a difference! I'd recommend them to everyone.