C Scope CS 1220R Reviews, Price and Specifications
All-Purpose Land Metal Detector
Retail Price: $649.00 (£318.99)
Avg. Rating
(5.0 Stars) 
Specifications:
- Digitally controlled audio and meter discriminating metal detector
- Meter discrimination mode
- Large clear view meter
- Infinitely variable audio discrimination
- New lightweight stem - perfect balance
- Moisture and dust protected design features
- Headphone and battery recharge sockets
- SUPERLITE 8" diameter search head
- New 8 x AA cell battery pack
- 2 position ground control
- Variable discrimination
- Rapid, push-button mode change
- Weight: 3.3Kg (6.6lbs)
- Innovatory wide spectrum audio discrimination
- Twin channel ground-discriminate modes
- Ground adjustable in search mode
- LCD target ID and signal strength
- Counterbalanced stem with armrest
- Adjustable stem length
- Headphone socket
- Ideal For: Professional treasure hunters, all terrain use
Reviews:
Fantastic depth, discrinination needs improving.
by John S MacPherson in UK -
I have owned a 1220R now for just over three years and I must admit that for all its habits, good and bad, I love the machine.
In G/D mode the depth is fantastic. In air 17 inches and in ground 14 inches with a 5p (dime). Who could ask for more. Switch to discrimination and there the fun begins. The same 5p is rejected at anything over 4 inches in all three modes.
Air tests with basic ring pull, silver coin, iron nail, gold ring and copper coin all tested at 6 inches in G/D mode. All above blows your ears off and once you adjust the discrimination setting whilst in D mode, the 1220R will show good or bad. However this is not always true with soil tests. Wet soil and almost all are rejected at over 2 inches deep but on dry soil discrimination works well up to about 5 inches. Deeper than that and everything is rejected. As C-scope say, you will lose some depth in D mode but they don't tell you that you lose over 60%.
Still its depth happily makes up for the poor discrimination. Smallest object found so far is a 3/4 inch copper pin at 11 inches. One day I will find that gold coin I am looking for, I just have to remember to dig every dodgy signal.
Happy hunting folks.
May 19, 2013
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