Air test of Garrett ACE 300i for detection depth. (Results+)

Many consider the Garrett ACE 300i metal detector to be the best option for both a novice digger and someone already experienced in instrumental detecting. This detector is not much more expensive than the ACE 250, but has a number of useful functions and design solutions that make the search more comfortable and effective. These include collet clamps on the shaft, a digital target rating indicator, a frequency offset, and a 7×10-inch mono coil. ACE 300i has everything to make people buy it and not the previous model.

But this is how the three hundred will see various valuable objects that the diggers are hunting for? What if the ACE 300i cannot see some coin further than 5 centimeters or will not react to it at all?

Today we will try to answer this question. To do this, let’s take test targets and determine by air the maximum distance at which the metal detector will see this object. For the test we chose the most interesting targets, in our opinion:

• denarius – these coins are almost 2000 years old;
• scale – the smallest common silver coin;
• solid – a very popular medieval coin;
• Katin nickel – the largest imperial copper coin;
• 2 kopecks 1814 – queen of the fields;
• uniform button – a common soldier’s scarf of the imperial army;
• 5 kopecks 1930 – similar to the rarik 5 kopecks 1933;
• 2 kopecks 1940 — similar to rarik 2 kopeck 1927;
• vodka Soviet cork is the most common trash target;
• gold wedding ring is the most desirable find.

Garrett ACE Series metal detectors are very easy to set up. On today’s test, the 300i has the following settings: zero-disc mode (all metals), maximum sensitivity, frequency F4.

And so: after testing we have these results:

In general, the result for the Garrett ACE 300i with a standard 7×10-inch coil is not bad: the device saw all targets and the maximum depth was good.

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