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I think most companies know what they have to do to keep customers and stay in business. SMF. XP has a base already and they do most things right so they will be fine. Not sure about our American companies..
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have an extra Vanquish 540 propack . I bought a couple , one as backup/ traveling detector and another for a friend but friends job took him out of state for a while so I thought I'd sell it. Is perfect, used 4 times and comes with wireless headphones, smaller 8" coil and 12x9 coil. Asking $500 shipped OBO. Double boxed and insured. Thanks
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basstrackerman
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I used the 540 several times now here in southern Alabama. Areas mixed with red clayish dirt . It did very good. Found a deep wheat penny about 8" and a solid 26 . Clear signal and deep in this dirt. Also found a pendant at a solid 16 about 7-8" deep. All of the other coins were solid ID's but were not deep. All aluminum trash was mixed ID's and tones sounded hollow. I live
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I really like the 540. Similar to the nox . It's light and swings good.. I love the Deus style collapsablity ... Very much worth the $499.. extra coil and nod style headphones ..
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
88junior Wrote:
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> I have Red Clay soil the Nox handles it pretty goo
> d and gets good depth in multi frequency. Another
> machine that handles this red clay is the Deus ORX
> with a high frequency coil.
Thank you 88junior! I'm a huge deus fan also. The fun part will be learning the area ..
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Lol hey have you or any of your buddies tried the equinox in Alabama red dirt? I've been looking for a home in the Southside thought it would be in the Carolinas .. well we sold our home here in Ohio and bought a new build home in southern Alabama. We move in September. I'm curious as to how it does in bad dirt..
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
A 5x10 nox coil and a pinpointer that works through detector like the sunrays did.. then there would be less need for other detectors for me..
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Yeah no doubt ..this would be pretty awesome.
88junior Wrote:
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> I wonder what detector they plan to unveil? A Nox
> 1000??? Or even better a Etrac light weight machin
> e with the flutey like audio and great iron disc w
> ith lightning speed like the Nox? One can only dre
> am!
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I had a back injury 25 years ago is where alot of my issues are. Right between my shoulder blades.. certain things bother it.. I can swing an ATpro all day, and etrac bothered me. Glad we have plenty of detector choices.
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basstrackerman
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Harold,ILL. Wrote:
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> It seems like a well built Detector compared to th
> e Racer, Racer 2. Is it balanced well? Then again
> everyone's arm is different as I had No problem sw
> inging a Etrac, But the CTX wore my arm out and it
> was suppose to be the better balanced of the two.
It was balanced, but I'm ta
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
x2000 Wrote:
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> "We built what the people wanted..
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> I want a powerful but also very light detec
> tor. Is it that difficult to build?
Exactly. A 4lb detector in 2018 is crazy. I had the anfibio and it sure looked like it could be made li
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The anfibio wasn't long enough for me one, two it was heavy, three just didn't feel it did anything better than anything else.. unimpressed . Screen words were small. Got rid of it quickly.
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I read that the iron volume is not quite as loud as the tones for non ferrous items..hope that is true.. also I don't mind hunting with iron volume on then once finding a site of interest just turning iron volume off as long as it doesn't cause me to miss good targets..
calabash digger Wrote:
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> Iron is either off or
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Over the last 3-4 years or so I sold all of my detectors . I use 1-2 only these days and do just as good as ever before.. it much more fun for me. I have simplified my whole life now that I'm 52 and retired and things are more enjoyable..
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I've always enjoyed the simple easy to use detectors. But have owned many that need tinkering in order to be used. Depends on mood.. but the older I get the less I want to mess with alot of settings . To me the equinox is fun and easy. The deus is fun and just ever so slightly complicated/pretty easy. The whites V3i was wrap around the tree fun. Lol
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
So the center shaft on the impact is longer than the anfibio's? If so then why don't they just use that one when selling it to open up another group of users??
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
For me tesoros, whites, Fisher/Tek, makro/Nokta, etrac,some Garrett's, I'm sure more were all too short... ATpro/max, Xterra, equinox, deus, are all fine. Deus is close but fine. I do not see why manufacturers can't get a few extra inches of length.. all detectors ar plenty short enough but few are long enough.. makes no sense .. I got tired of Tall man rods.. these newer models do
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Sold
I have an equinox 800 for sale. It's used as my backup to my other equinox 800..it works like new and updated with newer software. Also has a brand new complete shaft as it was never used , I used my carbon fiber shaft.. I did have the center shaft replaced in case there was shaft wobble. ..this will not come with headphones but can be purchased cheap online anywhere.. It does come
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basstrackerman
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TheHunterGT Wrote:
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> With the Tek-Points and F-Pulse.......
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> If you turn it on touching metal....and it locks u
> p to whjere you must break battery contact...you h
> ave a Gen 1.
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> If you turn it on touching metal and it does NOT l
> ock up...you have a Gen 2...which fixes the lockup
> (and most f
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
canslawhero Wrote:
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> Tek-point (green version of F-point)...
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> can anyone speak to the 'quirkiness' they're seein
> g with these 2. Mine seems to 'lock up' too many t
> imes, need to unscrew the battery cap, wait a bit,
> recap and it comes back to life. this does seem to
> happen more
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Yeah super quiet detector lmao. I remember when the mxt first came out and I bought one.. it was a depth monster compared to the dfx. Sold both of my dfx's and my xlt soon after buying an mxt. Now the mxt cannot hit coins the f75 can in my dirt.. the f75 cannot hit coins the nox800 can in my dirt. See the pattern here? Love how nokta makro are kicking butt with new releases and listening
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
From what I see calabash just uses any detector he can get for a test video. If a friend has one he can use or buy one cheap or buy one he plans on using .. I don't think he purposely sets out to find old tech. The ATpro and f75 are kind of old tech. Have any of the guys on here ever went to a store looking to buy something and once there had that item in your hand and thought, what a pile
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basstrackerman
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum