It’s a bit low for gold, but it will still pull metal objects from the ground as we found out very quickly.

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The Garrett EuroAce control panel features just 6 buttons and has been kept simple enough for the complete novice to understand and use. In addition to having great sensitivity, users are also now able to distinguish between different types of iron. One final half gripe – there’s no internal pinpointer so you may find you’re digging bigger holes than necessary.

It’s possible to upgrade the coil at a later date if your kid really gets into detecting but for beginners (and way beyond) this coil is enough. These are the Power/Iron Audio, Pinpoint, Frequency Adjustment, Discrimination, Sensitivity, and Mode. The buttons are clearly labelled Power, Discrimination, Mode, Sensitivity, Pinpoint, and Elimination (elim).

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I’d definitely recommend it and when I uncover that hoard of Viking gold I’ll be sure to update you! Relics mode is used to discriminate against smaller pieces of iron like nails while retaining the lower end of the conductivity scale keeping good targets such as brass and bronze. Battery life on the Garrett Ace 150 is another great feature of the machine, I personally have had between 25 – 30 hours of metal detecting from it but some users have reported more, this will depend on the quality and age of the batteries you are using.Detectorist Chad is passionate about metal detecting since he got his first metal detector as a gift when he was 12 years old. You could use this machine in the bleachers, parks, gardens, fields, dry sand, and shallow freshwater courses. Thanks to a simple LCD screen and push-button controls, you can get the hang of things pretty quickly. Overall this is an easy machine to use to the point that my 10-year-old got the hang of it within 5-10 minutes.

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The discrimination features reduce the likelihood of picking up non-metal items or other pieces of junk. There are no settings to alter, just a simple on/off switch, meaning they can easily sweep the ground for any metal close to the surface. I looked for days/weeks and without realising it I have come to the decision that the Garret 250 is the best machine for me. I found buried coins, an iron horseshoe, a broken earring, nails, and drink can tabs on my first two trips.I live in the Midlands, UK and was thinking about the Garrett 400i or the Fisher F44 which one would you recommend. Garrett Ace 400i is a little more advanced for a novice, but I think you can get used to it pretty fast. So, its coin mode concentrates on metals that coins are made from, jewellery picks up more precious metals and the all-metal mode rather obviously picks up everything. It will be able to suggest whether the find contains traces of iron, silver or gold (bear in mind that not all metal detectors can identify gold as they need to operate at a very low frequency, which not all detectors can do). In terms of the design, the Garrett ACE 400i looks a lot like the other ACE models with the exception of a cross-shaped coil.