How A Metal Detector Works

A quick video on how your Metal detector works. This is the first in the series. I will have more soon! If you found value in this be sure to subsccribe and click the bell. are you looking to join the great hobby of metal detecting? click the link below and check out some of the best detectors in the world!! We Dig Metal Detectors carries some of the worlds best, from beginner to expert!!

[fouramhq]

Metal detectors don 't actually transmit a signal into the ground and wait for a response reflected from a metal target. That's how radar works, and metal detectors are not like radar. The search coil on a metal detector radiates or 'emits' an electromagnetic field all around itself. When a metal object enters that electromagnetic field it creates an anomaly in the field, and the detectors processor senses that anomaly. Similar to the technology that is used to detect submarines by anti-submarine aircraft flying overhead. Theirs is called MAD Anomaly Detector.

[BykerBub]

Great video,
Would love to hear about how the frequency on different machines works better than others and how a multi-frequency detector works.

[joachimnass]

Hi! The electromagnetic field is more like an invisible globe around the coil, rather than one, down directional wave. If a metallic object is swung above the coil it will pick it up as well. I found that this is something that metal detecting beginners are failing to understand and this video does not help with that due to the way the electromagnetic field is graphically represented [e.g. 1:49].

[Idontknow-rxjo]

This has to be the greatest invention known to man. Someone really made a handheld electromagnetic field.

[Deborah___e]

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[alhyslip]

I love hearing the basics like that. Keep it up. Great video.

[leozendo]

you're talking about MRI nuclei pinging. Metal detectors measure only eddy current draw and do no pinging.

[kylewarren]

So this works on any and all metals or just metals with iron in them? Magnetic is in the phrasing there so I assume magnetism has something to do with it and only metal with iron are magnetic.

[ferrousgrump]

Was this your creation or from another source? I enjoyed the explanation or MD operation

[DumbMuchrooms]

isnt the metal underground ... grounded ?
how can it keep its eddy current

[kevinbaker]

Almighty Then . Pretty cool instructor

[gjuetaretethesareve]

Hello Archeology group. My Detector is equinox 600. Perfect Detector for hunting Hidden Treasure

[diggersdentysonu.k.m.d]

Hope your we buddy just come across your videos iam a Metaldetecters from the uk pop over have a look buddy tell me what u think stay safe guys from me and us all in the uk

[cobbles]

What are "target types" ? It seems important..

[TrumpetSAE]

Thank you for this simple explanation...it helps me to further understand what my upstairs neighbors were doing to me. I was wondering how they were able to follow my every steps. Discriminatory mode! Have you ever had a metal detector pointed at you? That sh!t causes your entire body to FRY basically...now I know what was happening. Thanks for this.

[Swenser]

Can you explain how the governments have already surveyed the area with laser equipment from low level aircraft to find all the big gold?

[trumanhw]

that's great and all, but Gold is non-magnetic ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Which makes it kinda weird that you can rely on EM waves.

[blockhead]

How does the metal detector not beep to its own magnetic field?

[tommyhatcher]

Did you just call me a metal detector?

[victoriam]

You should consider editing your videos before posting them. It's not necessary to including stuff like the typo in the opening card, sniffing, misreads, etc - are you aware of recording in multiple takes?