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This comment intrigues me, Mike:"I don’t like zinc cents and alum bottle caps giving the saturated high tone"
Surely, in anyones book, these are high conductors? Plus, I assume that as the machine is intended for the European market (I'm U.K based), where coins and bottle tops are different, they chose the high-tone to indicate a broad range of likely targets?
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I want to buy this "advancement soup", is it available in the shops?
Come back @#$%& boots, all is forgiven.
Edit: that's supposed to read U-g-g boots, looks like there's some computerised censorship going on here....
Let's try: @#$%& dankowski @#$%& @#$%& dankowski @#$%&.
Doesn't seem to remove all the swear-words!
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It seems to me that many of those features are now common-place, the Fisher F2 has pin-point, large ID LCD screen and is lightweight, for example.
I would be more inclined to list features that are currently unusual, but really should not be:
1: Cordless headphones, preferably with the option of using your own 'phones, such as on Minelabs' CTX3030, as well as 'phones with integ
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"Then actually adjust various internal components with a screw driver ???"
Yes. But in the latest machines, there's not much of that. The Fisher F75/Tek T2 has two screwdriver-adjustable parts, 'coarse' and 'fine' master ground balance. That's it. Everything else is fixed in the software.
"I find it hard to believe that any manufacturer of these unit
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Here's a Vibraprobe on UK eBay:
It has been said that the Vibraprobe interferes with some detectors when it is on. And as a result, the one-minute turn-on makes it unusable.
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Diggers, I assume you are in the U.K? The post about using inner-tubes reminded me of these tubes, for 'difficult to fix' rear wheel punctures. I've never seen one, so don't know how the end is sealed up, but it could probably be sealed to the propointer body just below the battery cap with PVC (or similar) glue, combined with tape.
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There's a second series due for screening soon. The first series caused a boom in sales of beginners detectors, according to UK distributor Regtons. And a definite influx of newbie members to UK detecting forums.
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Quote: "I think there are less people taking up the hobby"
I'm sure sales are healthy - the high price of gold, plus TV shows like "Britains Secret Treasures" here in the UK (a second series is due) and your 'Diggers' series have raised public awareness.
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I'm surprised they didn't make it run at 13KHz, like a low-cost T2. I see the depth gauge/gage can do inches and cm. I mentioned this as a 'want' on one of the 'new Fisher' threads here, if it went in 1 centimetre steps, it would make for easier pinpointing of deeper targets. Of course it may jump in 2cm steps....
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"Ammo and reloading supplies are what a person needs to invest in"
What would you recommend those in the United Kingdom do? Just stock up on food and bottled water?
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The drops seem sudden as they are largely futures-driven, rather than real supply/demand reasons. And the stockmarkets are making new highs, and people think there's money to be made there (possibly short-term) so other assets are being sold.
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The Deus does use 2.4GHz radio for it's link, but I'm pretty sure it's not Bluetooth. There are lots of ways of sending data, Bluetooth consistently seems to give 'delayed' audio, so would be a poor choice anyway. Plus the Deus has a two-way link to the headphones, they can control the detector operation.
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You are just impossible. If I were a gambling type, I would have put money on the fact you had it apart before even the first reply.
Loop a piece of thin string etc around the loop of cable. You should then be able to pull the cable-loop towards the rear whilst sliding in the PCB. When it's 90% home, slip out the string. Don't forget to set the on/off switch into the on position, or yo
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I will volunteer to be the first to try and stop Kevin.
STOP!
You will break it and ruin it completely. Taking it apart is tricky, putting it back together is five times harder, whilst you are trying, something else will break etc etc.
I've taken mine apart (for various modifications) several times, and I still can't do it properly.
I understand there are educational videos on youtu
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The frequency is adjustable over such a small range that I doubt there's more than 1% raw depth difference. And I would expect it to not necessarily be the same from one machine to the next. Component tolerances may result in one machine having the coil and associated tuning components tuned spot on 13KHz, another might work best at 13.2KHz.
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I am curious about the "50 dollar update" to the F75 (I am in the UK). Could anyone enlighten me? Is this the weak battery spring replacement and some sealing improvement on the control box? I ask because I was plagued by "battery bounce" turn-off on my F75 until I finally resolved it myself. My machine is an early one, 2007 I think.
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Quote:"a recalibration of the pinpoint depth indicator"
There is no pinpoint depth calibration. It's defined in the software, and can't be changed. The ONLY adjustment in the F75 is the master ground balance. For what it's worth, my F75 depth gauge is certainly not calibrated for a US 1 cent coin, as is suggested, more like a nickel/quarter sized coin. And that's in
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If you want an example of a disappointing target response, this is quite good: I've been experimenting with search-coil construction, and among my bits I have a coil wound from 100 turns of 0.22mm diameter enamelled copper wire. The coil is around 50mm (2 inches) across, and the wire bundle is 5mm ( 3/16th inch) diameter. There's roughly 12 grams of pure copper in it, about a half-dolla
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Very smooth, even sweeps help get a more repeatable target ID. I think that because the 5 inch coil averages out the ground signal from a much smaller area of dirt than the 11 x 7, it is more succeptable to changes in the dirt - coil height change, uneven ground surface, localised mineralisation changes etc.
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The bent edge on this coin nicely shows how thin European hammered coins are, for those in the US. This is a typical medieval penny (approx. 1300 AD) and is about 19mm (3/4 inch) diameter and 0.3mm (0.012 inch) thick. Despite being 92.5% Sterling silver, they ID lower in conductivity than a US 5c nickel. And this is far from being a small one - ones weighing one quarter of this example are common
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You are asking for a hard time using BP boost mode, the machine is chatty enough running it hot in DE or JE modes. It's wise to do a factory default when you turn it on, in case it's got some inadvertent settings (notch especially), and see if the ground balance then behaves itself, expect GB values in the 50 - 70 range for common medium-mineralisation ground. Give the 5 inch coil a goo
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Quote:"I think I remember Tom saying that there's a depth boost if the discrim is set at 4 - or maybe it was 4 and lower. True?"
This thread may explain the disc / sensitivity behaviour:
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I don't know of any set-up like you wan't, the Rapoo hack would be the cheapest way to use your own phones - they are too flimsy for hard use as they come, being designed for light MP3 player type use.
The only other method I know of is to use a 'broadcast band' FM radio transmitter, and a matching FM radio with your phones plugged into that. The FM transmitters I will have t
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These Blaupunkt phones apparently work OK, though only a few people have tried them so far:
And the TDK WR700 phones also work well, but have a potentially annoying feature of powering down if there's no sound for 2 minutes (I think the Blaupunkt ones also do this but it's 10 minutes)
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