Barracuda Legend Kit Problems

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As the Director of Electronics Engineering at the Rowland Institute, Win oversees a fully appointed electronics engineering laboratory with a dedicated staff and three instrumentation benches (including one for use by other Institute members), an extensive suite of electronic test and measurement instrumentation, and a substantial inventory of electronic parts, e.g., including about 850 different types of ICs. The Electronics Engineering Lab designs and fabricates most of the critical electronic instrumentation found throughout the Institute.

That is a very good book. I gave one to my son, an engineer for Christmas and he loves it. I am also an engineer and flipped through it. It is a great reference without getting too technical.

[kt315]

As the Director of Electronics Engineering at the Rowland Institute, Win oversees a fully appointed electronics engineering laboratory with a dedicated staff and three instrumentation benches (including one for use by other Institute members), an extensive suite of electronic test and measurement instrumentation, and a substantial inventory of electronic parts, e.g., including about 850 different types of ICs. The Electronics Engineering Lab designs and fabricates most of the critical electronic instrumentation found throughout the Institute.

[kt315]

upload texts from this book too

[kt315]

That is correct, it will not be the right voltage if it in not a true RMS meter, but it will be a relative voltage.

As an example, if the FET is on all the time the DC voltage will be close to the supply voltage.

Most cheap meters, when measuring AC, assume a sine wave and then multiply that voltage by .707. They really respond to the peak of the waveform not the true value. True RMS meters measure the heating value of the waveform so are accurate for any waveform within the meters bandwidth.

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Impulse this may be hard to do if you are not familiar with test equipment. Do you have an iPhone or iPad so you could do FaceTime? It would make it a lot easier. We could also do this on Skype but it is not nearly as nice.

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Hey everyone thank you for your patience and help i have had another play with the new board and i have managed to get it to pick up a gold ring about 5-6 (good or bad?) away i have ordered some new 0.5mm enamelled wire so i can make a more precise coil. What have you found to be a better design/size for the coil searching for coinage, rings and relics ect? I know this is a question that has loads of answers but im looking for the best place to start as you guys have been using the barracuda in 'real world' situations, would the basic mono coil be best for roughish to smooth beach or some other variation? also whats with the shielding as i have tried with foil but it only made things worse not better which thought i should do?

That may be about right for your coil. Two things MUST be set exactly right to detect low conductivity items like small gold.

1. The coil damping resistor must be optimized so there is no ringing. The coil must NOT be overdamped either. Search these threads for damping or dumping resistor. There is much written on that subject. On my detector changing from the design value to an optimum value increased the depth on gold by 30%. You will need an oscilloscope to do this properly.

2. Once damping is set spot on then the delay control and delay trim must be set for the minimum delay that your detector/coil will support. While this can be done by ear, as I described earlier, using a scope makes it much easier.

The likely reason you did not hear any change when you changed the delay is that your minimum delay can not be set short enough.
on KT315's schematic R10 sets the minimum delay and the delay control sets the gross overall delay. On Silvedog's board there may not be an R10, it may be replaced by a fixed resistor. If it is you may Haverhill the waveform to substitute a pot to determine the minimum setting.
I like to measure the signal with a scope after the first preamp. This is the same place you measure the DC offset. Start by setting the DC value there back to 0 volts. Then with the scope set to 10uS per division trigger on the flyback pulse. This is the signal that is about 10-15uS wide. You should be able to see some small spikes on the waveform where the first sample is being taken. They should be about 45uS apart. You want to set the delay to minimum ( least delay) and R10 so the first spike, which is the beginning of the sampling period, falls right where the waveform starts to come back to 0 volts. You can determine 0 volts by temporarily disconnecting the scope lead or changing the coupling on the scope to Gnd.
You may have to slightly adjust the delay from to get the best depth. I have found that adjusting the offset slightly can improve the depth because it can affect the way the preamp recovers from the extreme overdrive from the transmit pulse.

Minor adjustments can play a large role in getting best depth.

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it seems -E is OK. a digital meter gives wrong value if a voltage is not symmetrical and not sinusoidal, on AC range or DC, no difference.
you have not to take attention on those voltages.

That is correct, it will not be the right voltage if it in not a true RMS meter, but it will be a relative voltage.

As an example, if the FET is on all the time the DC voltage will be close to the supply voltage.

Most cheap meters, when measuring AC, assume a sine wave and then multiply that voltage by .707. They really respond to the peak of the waveform not the true value. True RMS meters measure the heating value of the waveform so are accurate for any waveform within the meters bandwidth.

[kt315]

Nice page! thank you, is 1ohm a bit low or not?

you must get MICROHENRY,- L, NOT THE OHMS. low or hight - has not have difference for you now.

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Takes a bit of playing around. I adjusted the offset for best results not 0 volts.(best sensitivity to small gold ring)

Different coils affects all the adjustments. Best to tune your detector when your new coil is built.

Koala just for interest what was the offset voltage that gave best results ?

[Koala]

Hey everyone thank you for your patience and help i have had another play with the new board and i have managed to get it to pick up a gold ring about 5-6 (good or bad?) away i have ordered some new 0.5mm enamelled wire so i can make a more precise coil. What have you found to be a better design/size for the coil searching for coinage, rings and relics ect? I know this is a question that has loads of answers but im looking for the best place to start as you guys have been using the barracuda in 'real world' situations, would the basic mono coil be best for roughish to smooth beach or some other variation? also whats with the shielding as i have tried with foil but it only made things worse not better which thought i should do?

Takes a bit of playing around. I adjusted the offset for best results not 0 volts.(best sensitivity to small gold ring)

Different coils affects all the adjustments. Best to tune your detector when your new coil is built.

[Impulse]

Nice page! thank you, is 1ohm a bit low or not? what about the balance resistor would i have to change this? i notice the inductance is 317 for such a low ohms? (sorry lack of knowledge again) so i take there is no linear relationship between inductance and resistance of a coil? Any one have a shread of knowledge?

[kt315]

do basket coil http://www.metdet.ru/Sensor_K1.htm
you may use Google translation.

[Impulse]

Hey everyone thank you for your patience and help i have had another play with the new board and i have managed to get it to pick up a gold ring about 5-6 (good or bad?) away i have ordered some new 0.5mm enamelled wire so i can make a more precise coil. What have you found to be a better design/size for the coil searching for coinage, rings and relics ect? I know this is a question that has loads of answers but im looking for the best place to start as you guys have been using the barracuda in 'real world' situations, would the basic mono coil be best for roughish to smooth beach or some other variation? also whats with the shielding as i have tried with foil but it only made things worse not better which thought i should do?

[Impulse]

Hey old cart i have a large ish gold chain and it was picking it up (very close) but now i cannot get it to work i really want this to work , i have the o-scope working now but it is a fluke 196c and i have no idea how to get it to where it should be, can you help? when i adjust the bottom (blue w203) delay pot it does not seem to make any odds where it is it doesnt make the tone louder.

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If it is a fine gold chain then weak response is to be expected. Do you have a mans gold ring or a US nickle to try? you should get around 10" or more if everything is as it should be. For fine gold setting the minimum delay is very important. I described how to do that in post 22.