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Originally posted by hooby life View PostIm sorry he can not detect gold .
All VLF's are able to detect gold, if proper build and tuned.
For small gold like small nuggets, earrings and alike you need small coil (say about 6")
and discrimination set to "all metal" (mean zero discrimination).
Even better if you have "Real All Metal" option instead of zero discrimination only.
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Originally posted by WM6 View PostAll VLF's are able to detect gold, if proper build and tuned.
For small gold like small nuggets, earrings and alike you need small coil (say about 6")
and discrimination set to "all metal" (mean zero discrimination).
Even better if you have "Real All Metal" option instead of zero discrimination only.
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Originally posted by hooby life View PostIm biginer ivca soory .smw is my first diy md .
0.5 gram of gold... what shape, size?
if just a grain; than Minelab marketing and sale experts would be real yoyos to place such hot prices on their products, right?
Who would even think to buy any of their product if such grain can be easily detected with obscure diy as SMW is?
On the other side; 0.5 gram of gold can be hammered in a coin form, presenting larger "area" and yet possible to be detected even with general purpose machine.
I really can not tell about 0.5 gram gold. Never had such target to experiment with.
What i can tell is that once i detected hammered gold coin, 0.7 gram weight, at ~15cm depth with SMW.
Of course it was not pure gold, it was gold alloy, some medieval Turkish coin.
That's what i can tell only.
But if we talking about grains and ore... well... Minelab is one of the possible solution, SMW is not.
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Originally posted by ivconic View PostNow seriously.
0.5 gram of gold... what shape, size?
if just a grain; than Minelab marketing and sale experts would be real yoyos to place such hot prices on their products, right?
Who would even think to buy any of their product if such grain can be easily detected with obscure diy as SMW is?
On the other side; 0.5 gram of gold can be hammered in a coin form, presenting larger "area" and yet possible to be detected even with general purpose machine.
I really can not tell about 0.5 gram gold. Never had such target to experiment with.
What i can tell is that once i detected hammered gold coin, 0.7 gram weight, at ~15cm depth with SMW.
Of course it was not pure gold, it was gold alloy, some medieval Turkish coin.
That's what i can tell only.
But if we talking about grains and ore... well... Minelab is one of the possible solution, SMW is not.
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Originally posted by hooby life View PostI test with earning gold . size about 1cm my be 0.5gram
Much harder to detect than "closed loop" targets.
Due simple reason; dispersion of the eddy currents.
Now, if we take the same earning and weld the ends, to form the "closed loop"; detection of it will be much easier and better.
Point is in shape and form.
Magnetic features of the given metal comes on second place.
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Originally posted by ivconic View PostDespite the fact that earning is usually in circular form (maybe not in your case, can't tell without photo); still most of the earnings are "open loop" in eyes of the detector.
Much harder to detect than "closed loop" targets.
Due simple reason; dispersion of the eddy currents.
Now, if we take the same earning and weld the ends, to form the "closed loop"; detection of it will be much easier and better.
Point is in shape and form.
Magnetic features of the given metal comes on second place.
That mean test with another target like gold coin or ring..
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Originally posted by hooby life View PostThanks ivca
That mean test with another target like gold coin or ring..
Any awkward shapes that disperses the eddy currents like that.
SMW is not the exception. It will struggle with such targets.
But it will perform very good on targets like coins, rings and similar.
SMW is one of the "deepest" diy i ever made. General purpose nature. Usual targets in our hobby.
In my case; coins. Ancient coins, mostly made of bronze and similar alloys.
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