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GARRETT ACE 250 TESTS Comments Famous for being the best for beginners in the hobby, and it will find you stuff, it’s very average in the great scheme of things, you will see the difference in performance if you exchange the standard coil for a Nel Coil or the Garrett 11’’ X 8’’ But if you started throwing money at it you might be in danger of the coil being worth more than the detector, so it might be better to just use any spare cash to upgrade to a better detector. Once you have outgrown its ability. The tests were done setting it up to accept Foil, if you choose to reject foil the performance takes a nose dive! Pros Lightweight easy to use Cons Horrible ‘ding dong’ signal on high conductive signals, you might like it, I don’t! Yellow. |
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DEPTH TESTS The depth tests are set up to gauge the power of the detector, all iron is removed from the hole. Various size items are buried at good depths |
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COIL SIZE |
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Standard 9’’ x 6’’ Coil |
Nel 5’’ |
Nel Tornado 13’’ x 12’ ’Coil |
10’’ x 7’’ Coil |
11’’ x 8’’ Coil |
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CAN A CARTWHEEL PENNY BURIED AT 16’’ GIVE A SIGNAL |
NO |
NO |
YES |
NO |
NO |
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GEORGE 111 HALFPENNY MAXIMUM DEPTH |
8’’ |
9’’ |
13’’ |
8’’ |
10’’ |
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5 PENCE MAXIMUM DEPTH |
8’’ |
8’’ |
9’’ |
8’’ |
8’’ |
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CUT ¼ OF HAMMERED PENNY MAXIMUM DEPTH |
4’ |
4’’ |
7’’ |
4’’ |
4’’ |
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CAN A HOARD OF 100 MIXED COINS BURIED AT 18’’ GIVE A SIGNAL |
NO |
NO |
YES |
NO |
YES |
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DISCRIM TESTS The tests below are to see if the detector is capable of giving a signal on a non ferrous target while iron is placed on top of it and around it at different depths |
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CAN I GET A SIGNAL FROM A 20 PENCE BURIED AT 8’’ 2 NAILS BURIED AT 2’’ DIRECTLY ABOVE IT |
NO |
NO |
YES |
NO |
YES |
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CAN I GET A SIGNAL FROM A 20 PENCE BURIED AT 8’’ 2 NAILS BURIED AT 5’’ DIRECTLY ABOVE IT |
NO |
NO |
YES |
NO |
YES |
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CAN A GET A SIGNAL FROM A 20 PENCE BURIED AT 8’’ 2 NAILS SITTING ON TOP OF COIN |
NO |
YES |
YES |
NO |
YES |
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CAN I GET A SIGNAL FROM A HAMMERED PENNY 20 NAILS ALL AROUND IT BURIED AT 2’’ |
YES |
YES |
NO |
NO |
YES |
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CAN I GET A SIGNAL FROM A HAMMERED COIN BURIED AT 2’’ A LARGE/RUSTY IRON HOOK IS BURIED 3’’ BELOW IT |
YES |
YES |
NO |
YES |
YES |
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CAN I GET A SIGNAL FROM A HAMMERED PENNY NEXT TO 4’’ BOLT BURIED AT 2’’ |
NO |
HALF |
NO |
NO |
YES |
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CAN I GET A SIGNAL FROM A 20 PENCE BURIED AT 2’’ 2 NAILS ALSO BURIED AT 2’’-NAILS 4’’ APART COIN BETWEEN THEM |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
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CAN I GET A SIGNAL FROM A 20 PENCE BURIED AT 5’’ 2 NAILS BURIED AT 2’’ DIRECTLY ABOVE IT-4’’ APART |
HALF |
HALF |
YES |
HALF |
YES |
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CAN I GET A SIGNAL FROM A 20 PENCE BURIED AT 8’’ WITH 2 NAILS BURIED AT 2’’ DIRECTLY ABOVE IT 4’’ APART |
NO |
NO |
HALF |
NO |
NO |
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CAN I GET A SIGNAL FROM A 20 PENCE BURIED AT 6’’ WITH 4 NAILS BURIED AT 5’’ DIRECTLY ABOVE IT 4 NAILS AT 7’’ DIRECTLY BELOW IT AND 4 NAILS ON THE SAME LEVEL |
HALF |
NO |
YES |
HALF |
YES |
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COKE/SENSITIVITY A few low conductive targets will give the same signal as Coke , so if you are rejecting Coke you may miss them |
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CAN IT FIND A GOLD CHAIN WHEN COKE IS REJECTED |
HALF |
NO |
YES |
NO |
YES |
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CAN IT FIND A LOW CONDUCTIVE CUT ¼ WHEN COKE IS REJECTED |
NO |
YES |
YES |
HALF |
YES |
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CAN A GOLD CHAIN BE FOUND WHEN COKE IS NOT REJECTED |
HALF |
NO |
YES |
NO |
YES |
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CAN A LOW COND CUT ¼ BE FOUND WHEN COKE IS NOT REJECTED |
NO |
YES |
YES |
HALF |
YES |
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CAN IT FIND A LOW CONDUCTIVE VERY THIN SILVER EARRING BURIED AT 2’’ |
NO |
NO |
NO |
NO |
NO |
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25 |
28 |
49.5 |
24 |
40 |
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