Anyone go from ACE 250 to DFX?

Aussie Okie said:
Hi,

Just wanted to know if anyone, like me, has gone from an ACE 250 to a White's DFX?

Paul
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I just got my White's catalog today. I've paid for my ACE 250 in just 5 months, so it is time to upgrade. I will spend the next 45 days researching a $700-$1000 detector for its replacement. This way the wife/kids can use the ACE 250 and share in the excitement. Any tips or ideas welcome.

Paul
 

Aussie Okie said:
Hi,

Just wanted to know if anyone, like me, has gone from an ACE 250 to a White's DFX?

Paul
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Nope. Went from an Ace 150 (free with new Minelab) to a Nautilus IIB.

Until the wife complained about getting dirt in her eyes at night I used to bring my Nautilus to bed with me.

LUV the Naughty!

Badger
 

Went from the Ace 150 Aluminum finder to White's XLT. The best decision I've ever made.

People swear by the Ace line, maybe it's just the 250, but the 150 isn't what it's cracked up to be.

There's no ground balance feature on it. Everytime you hit a target, the TID bounces around like Tigger. Just not worth it.

Go ahead. Get that Whites! Then, come over to the White's Forum: http://forum.treasurenet.com/whites/index.php

Ian
 

I went from an MXT to a 250.....................kinda. Santa was at the Nashville Civil War Show today, and picked up an Ace 250 for his little digger...........won't she be surprised. She thinks she wants a Cabbage Patch doll..........Santa disagrees.............

Ho Ho Ho

Roger
 

SouthCarolinaTeacher said:
Went from the Ace 150 Aluminum finder to White's XLT. The best decision I've ever made.

People swear by the Ace line, maybe it's just the 250, but the 150 isn't what it's cracked up to be.

There's no ground balance feature on it. Everytime you hit a target, the TID bounces around like Tigger. Just not worth it.

Go ahead. Get that Whites! Then, come over to the White's Forum: http://forum.treasurenet.com/whites/index.php

Ian
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The Ace is an aluminum finder. :( It will pick up every tiny piece. It is also a silver dime finder and picks up small gold. If the screen bounces around it is usually trash. If it is a dime, it will lock on and give the good ringtone.
 

ramjet2187 said:
I went from an MXT to a 250.....................kinda. Santa was at the Nashville Civil War Show today, and picked up an Ace 250 for his little digger...........won't she be surprised. She thinks she wants a Cabbage Patch doll..........Santa disagrees.............

Ho Ho Ho

Roger
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That is hysterical!
 

I went from a Garrett GTI 2500 to an ACE 250! Seriously , I had the 2500 first but went to the ACE as a backup and now I find myself using it more. I started with a BH Land Ranger and it is still a top preformer for me when I want to be adventursome! I think the DFx is probably a very fine machine and I will probably own it or a Minelab some day, or heck even a Nautilus, or ?? You never have too many options for an outing, but I only have two hands! Dear me, what to do? Do it, you won't regret it. ;) Monty
 

I am looking forward to the answer. The ACE 250 is very popular, but I can see how some will want to upgrade. My friend uses the DFX and I use the XLT. Yesterday we worked an old (by CA standards) baseball field and we both ended up with the same $ of clad and we each got a ring, except his was silver and mine was some very light alloy that looks like aluminum.

The transition from ACE 250 to DFX would be interesting. Would be nice to be able to tell someone about that.
 

Seeing that I have done this (but the snow is stopping me detecting) I will let you know the differences.
I was hoping someone else had made the transition and could give me some tips to make it easier, maybe VDO on, Tone ID on?, so it sounds (& acts) a little bit more like what I am used to, if that makes any sense.
 

Here are my first impressions using the DFX after the ACE 250.

These are just my initial observations.
The two are totally different in high trash areas. I used the preset Coin Program on both and them tweaked some settings (on the DFX).
I changed Audio Threshold to 18 (personal preference), I increased the AC Sensitivity to 70 and the Pre-Amp to 3, I also turned VCO 'ON' which I like a lot. I also adjusted the sweep speed to 5 as this was a very trashy area. I found in VERY trashy areas the DFX was VERY chatty, and I would get the 'Overload' message if I went over an aluminium can close to the surface. The good thing was that I could tell when using the DFX that there were numerous targets in the same spot (another reason for the overload), which with some fine tuning I could separate and distinguish what they were. The ACE tended to just pick the 'loudest' target. On the DFX I did reduce my AC down to 65 but I should have also (& firstly) reduced the Pre-Amp to 2. Next time I will try this and also use my 5x3 DD shooter coil.
Remember this is my first outing with the beast.

I started off not digging 'bottlecap/penny' readings but after finding a penny laying on top and it read bottlecap/penny I then went ahead and dug up those signals, and the majority were clad penny's.
Mental note: dig bottlecap/Penny's! (later a friend of mine also told me that IH Penny's can come in the Bottlecap/Penny range)

I find the differences in the two machines to be that the ACE will find coins, but with the DFX you have control over a whole myriad of subtle adjustments to not only increase depth but to fine tune your machine for particular areas and conditions.
The DFX's tone is certainly different after getting used to the ACE's bell tone, I did try Tone ID, but I didn't like it so I think I will leave that alone for now.
As I said this is just my first time out and I am learning the machine.
I want to next time try the VDI at 90 for faster deep coin VDI response and maybe try 2 freq correlate in really trashy areas.

The main differences are the huge range of settings and adjustments that the DFX has to suit various situations, of course the you would expect this in a machine that costs 4x the ACE 250.

I hope I have explained myself OK, any comments welcome and as I go along I will post more if anyone is interested.

Paul
 

I'm with Monty in a way on this one. I bought an XTerra 70 this summer, intending for the Ace 250 to be the Back Up Machine. Well, it hasn't happened yet and I don't think it will happen. Sure the X70 is probably better, offering Beach Mode, Manual GB, Threshold, Prospecting Mode and maybe a bit deeper.

BUT 4 Times The Price Better??....No Way :-\.

The Ace, for me at least, is more user friendly, works on salt sand, ID's more accurately, runs longer on 4 AA's, and has a 4.5" coil that the X70 doesn't have.

Just my take on it. To each their own :D

DFIU
 

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