Flat top metal detectors

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‘Flat top metal detectors’ is an outdated way of describing the shape of metal detectors. Technology has advanced way past the need to describe a metal detector by it shape. The shape is not even as important as knowing how your equipment matches up to your metal detection goals.

Those who are new to the hobby of working with metal detectors may not know much about how things like flat top metal detectors work. Although the functions metal detectors perform are fairly simple, their operation is not.

• Initial test - The step when searching for metal is a couple of tests. One way to do a test is to take a couple of coins, throw them on the ground and then see how well the detector is working as you scan over the coins. If the beeper and light work, you know that you are ready to start searching.
• Send a signal - Once you get started searching for real, the metal detector will send a signal into the ground. This is done on a regular basis over and over. It is not so much that the detector only works when it fids metal. Rather, the detector simply works differently when any kind of metal has been picked up.
• Hear or see the detection - When the metal that is around or under ground has been detected, the steady stream that the detector has been sending is interrupted. This means that there will be a difference in the way the light lights up. It also means that there will be a difference in the sound that the detector might make.

Flat top metal detectors are often used at places like forests and beaches. So the next time you see someone using a metal detector near you or if you get a hankering to use one yourself, you already have a solid basis of knowledge about how these items work.

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