Posted by JB(MS) on 11/2/2009, 11:19 am, in reply to "Re: cointrax 2 "
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George raised the bar with the original Cointrax and the 2.2 raised it even higher. I bought a Cointrax in 1998 just to resell and found the depth to be basically the same as the Fisher CZ's I was using, but that it ID'ed deeper with both the audio and meter. A lot deeper. The CZ's would read downscale, a dime near their depth limit could ID as a tab or lower. The Cointrax would ID the same dime correctly, or jump between a dime and quarter, show quarter or jump between a quarter and half dollar depending on how deep it actually was. That was the biggest factor in my decision to let the CZ's go and go with the Cointrax as I would much rather dig an occasional deep piece of junk that ID's as a coin than leave a nice coin that ID's as junk. Another factor is that it was, and may still be, one of the only detectors available that doesn't lose depth when the discrimination is increased. George said the LED circuitry gets a longer look at a target, so he designed it to just turn off the audio on rejected targets. It still sees a rejected target, and lights the appropriate LED, but turns the audio for that segment of the meter off. That results in absolutely no loss of depth, even if every thing but one meter segment is notched out.
The 2.2 chip took it to another level by adding the two standard disc modes, Deepsearch mode and additional audio outputs. I can't speak for how the Cointrax works in other places, but in the mild ground here I've not seen a detector that will go deeper when the same size coil is used on both, and only the Nautilus DMC IIb goes as deep. Some of the other mfg's are just now beginning to use some of the technology George pioneered years ago. The "Boost" mode in the F75 LTD is an example. From what I've read and been told it appears to be basically a version of the Deepsearch mode George put in the 2.2 chip. The newer detectors have more friendly user inputs and the adjustments are simpler, but for anyone who will put in the required time to learn how to set it up and use it the Cointrax II is tough to beat. The only negatives I've found with the Cointrax is that it doesn't work as well in trash as the other Baron models and when Deepsearch mode is used it picks up targets off the sides of the coil a lot father, which makes it very noisy when hunting where there's a lot of metal in the ground.
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