Posted by Tom_in_CA on 3/19/2008, 3:59 pm, in reply to "Re: reply"
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I realize that if a GS5 was made to favor high conductors (verses the stock setup of favoring low conductors) that it is perhaps not a machine that could go back and forth between options. In other words, it'a permanent internal adjustment, right?
As such, that would fly in the face of the typical, historical usage of pulse machines. I mean, they have, up till now, been a tool for beach hunters and nugget hunters. Therefore, they have never been marketed to do anything BUT favor low conductors.
But for those of you who have been detecting since the 1970s, remember the early 6000s? Red Barons? On those, even if you turned your disc. all the way down, to only reject iron, they got penny/dimes deeper than nickels and other low conductors. Even though the nickel is physically bigger than the dime. Granted, the current motion discriminators have slowed things way down, and they go deeper now, and you can do pretty darn good on low conductors nowadays. But certain earlier discriminators were better on silver, than they were low conductors. But that didn't bother a lot of hunters back in those days. There were a lot of guys that were content to hit the parks and pass tabs, so to them, they didn't care. They would turn down the disc. at the beach or relic hunting, but for parks, they were happy to have a machine that was deep on silver.
Seeing as how the 6000 sold un-told thousands of machines, despite favoring high conductors, so too do I believe that there is also a current market that would buy up a machine like yours. Afterall, it's not unable to find low conductors, it's just "favoring" (going deeper on) high conductors.
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