Detecting in South Africa

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2450 on: April 29, 2012, 12:57:15 am »

I have the little cousin Of the Ground Hog, the S-3. Man for a cheapo machine 30 year old, I would pit it with a pile of the new ones.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2451 on: April 29, 2012, 08:44:56 am »

I still use my Groundhog too. It's a bit heavy and tires me our quickly but what a machine! Deepest one I have, bar none.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2452 on: April 29, 2012, 10:58:22 am »

X came to stay the weekend with us in Westonaria Great

we had great fun as Friday was a holiday here in South Africa, so we all went to the zoo for the day... All the animals looked at X very carefully, as they were trying to figure what breed of animal he is No no!

even the monkeys were confused with him Funny

Saturday, we went to the old mining town of Bank which was knocked down in the late 1960's Great

We found lots of junk, especially car parts as the building we were searching was an old garage.... The best find was mine Grin

a 1929 South African Penny Kiss

also found some more modern 7.62 Blank rounds... what they are doing there, I do not know Idea

X, was complaining all the time over a few flies No no!

he is never satisfied Thumbs Down

The grass was long, but there were patches of shorter grass, this being where we detected.

We took X back home today, and had a Barbecue (braai) at his place before climbing in the car to come back home.... Altogether though, it was great fun Clapp

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2453 on: April 29, 2012, 11:28:28 am »

Cool finds there for sure.

Are those pennies Big like the old UK pennies?

X, Old Indian Secret!

Place a bit of sheep Poop on the top of Pgill's hat.

The Flies will follow him! LOL Shocked

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2454 on: April 29, 2012, 12:17:07 pm »

Good one mate

Peter said a few flies but he forgot to mention million Angry

Damn those flies were iterating me they were all over me. We don't even have so many flies on the farm mind you that when you have a BBQ they seem to also invade us (Horrid little things they are) The Penny that Peter found is really nice but I'll bet that with a better detector we could find a lot more in that old mining town, having said that I'm now more determined than ever to get mine working like it should it's a dirty job but someone's got to put Peter back in his place Grin

Peter gave me a VERY COOL inverter (Takes two people to carry it) unfortunately the technical data that was on it is no longer there so I have no idea how many KW it can deliver but I should think that it's quite a lot considering the size of the two transformers that are in there. It is manufactured by MLA power systems. I will try and find out more about it on the net Ho by the way I ordered some more magnet wire .202 (AWG 32) for the receiver coil to replace the 0.315 that I have on at the moment I just hope that this will be OK and if not then I will just have to get more.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2455 on: April 29, 2012, 12:58:19 pm »

Nice finds you guys made! Thanks for sharing the pictures, Peter! Sounds like you had a great time over the weekend! Great

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2456 on: April 29, 2012, 01:16:31 pm »

We sure did mate and we are planing to have another one. I just hope that I will have the pin-pointer ready for Peter by then and that my VLF will be doing what I want it to.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2457 on: April 29, 2012, 03:08:15 pm »

X, just buy me a Garrett Pro Pointer and we will call it quits Shocked

We did have a great time, I still think there are more coins around there as this is the 2nd one I have found there.... The penny is the same size as the British Penny as at that time, Britain ran South Africa.... The coin is "George V"...

Not sure why the flies were there, but they were a pain in the @#$%, it must of had something to do with X's deodorant, or lack off Funny

I would love to get back there when the grass is a lot less, as there are good things there.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2458 on: April 29, 2012, 05:59:20 pm »

Xavier, I asked this question once before but I don't recall the answer. Would it be possible to cram the circuitry for ferrous/nonferrous discrimination in a pinpointer? Idea

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2459 on: April 29, 2012, 06:21:38 pm »

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I asked this question once before but I don't recall the answer. Would it be possible to cram the circuitry for ferrous/nonferrous discrimination in a pinpointer? Idea

Anything is possible particularly if the design uses SMT (Surface Mount Technology) in its design. Is it practical? I'd say no because you'd have to guess what your target was to set it properly and that defeats the purpose of a pinpointer. I don't trust full size detector discrimination and I would have less confidence in miniature detectors.

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