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Old 12-21-2011, 03:50 AM
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Originally Posted by MIJ View Post
Ok so if you built a wooden case for this, where would you connect the black wire soldered to the outer metal case “is the metal case acting as earth or aerial?”
The copper plate is the antenna ground plane. The copper rod is the red wire and electrostatic antenna.

Remember the idea is to detect charges/ions coming from buried treasure.
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