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Not exactly an open and shut case for the Nox or against the Max. Could have simply been a difference between users, one knowing what to listen for and one not. Granted, some are better detectorists than others; same as guitar players and quarterbacks. But be mindful that everybody's situation is different. Different dirt and mineral content. EMI. Trash content - type and density. I'd l
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have an Equinox 800 and I like certain things about it, but its inability to tell the good stuff from trash is not one of them. Some days I just don't want to dig all the trash I come across. The AT Max lets me accomplish that.
Wayne
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Have you compared it, target for target, with the Max? Because I feel the Max is no slouch in that department, either.
The Max/small coil is becoming one of my faves for hunting fields with lots of (aluminum) trash. It finds the good stuff and avoids a bunch of trash.
Wayne
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Headphones or speaker? I've always thought that Garrett's AT series has (one of) the best audio/tones in the business. Clear. Distinct. Melodious. NOT scratchy and run-together like so many others. Always headphones for me.
Wayne
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ncwayne
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George-Tex's search for an AT Gold (different post and I didn't want to highjack it) brought up this question in my mind. I had an AT Pro and traded in on a Max but have never even seen an AT Gold, much less run one.
I have heard others say, and sort of surmised, myself, that the Max marries features of both the Pro and the Gold.
So the question is how does the Max stack up to the G
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Film at 11? <g>
Nice hunt, George, I'd like to have seen it. Please say more about the "critical" importance of the threshold. How so?
Thx
Wayne
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I actually ordered an 8000 once, but when I received it, it was an 8500. Might have been the very first one they "sold," even if shipping it to me was a mistake.
There were things I liked about it, the walker half it found for me being one of them. But over time it just seemed to be quirky machine for which I could not find its niche. So I let it go.
Thought about finding a true 8000
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
BeachBum Wrote:
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> Bruce Candy/Halcro/Minelab have been applying for
> and receiving patents for multi-frequency, complex
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> The current Minela
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Congrats on your great day detecting!
I have two of the script C buttons and a 1773 Hibernia (Irish) half penny, too, so it was fun watching you unearth yours.
I'd like to see the front of your coin and hear what its identify is.
Wayne
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Much more than that, I'd think. Partner with them on the proprietary knowledge and see what they can do with it.
Even if they just cut the weight and price in half, imagine the market for a Nautilus 2.
Wayne
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Your comment made me laugh out loud.
In CD's defense; any youtube producer, really - many of the comments are so asinine and ill informed that they're a waste of space and time and just show the poster's ignorance or intolerance.
Wayne
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
ROI, economies of scale, funds exchange rates, labor costs, R&D and engineering resources too invested in previous product with limited opportunity to expand horizons (costs too much for expected return). And possibly, design and development talent is long in the tooth and just playing the game as the bean counters call the shots.
Wayne
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ncwayne
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And if you are making dig decisions with the Deus based on tone, you are digging a whole lotta trash, too. If you're not, then your ground is not trashy.
Wayne
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Get something like this, George, and cut it to fit your screen and lay over it. Tape around edges or use something adhesive in a couple spots on periphery.
I've not done it but maybe someone has? Or maybe you can try it and report back. <g>
Wayne
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Well, why didn't somebody just say so? <g>
Oh, you just did!
Thanks, Pimento!!
Actually, that's very helpful. It tells me that for all the bells and whistles, metal detectors are still very crude machines and not very much different, one from another.
All the more reason for the mfrs. to differentiate in the market place with lighter weight, more comfortable styling, scr
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
It is my understanding that with all else being equal between targets, the larger target will produce a higher target ID. That ID is a measurement of conductivity. Therefore, conductivity increases with the size of the target.
When I speak of the measurement of conductivity as it relates to mass, I mean how much higher should the conductivity read for a similarly shaped target that is twice th
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Hunting farm fields and pastures as I do, I am amazed at the TID range occupied by aluminum. It seems that aluminum of some size, thickness, degree of flatness or crumpled-ness, weathering, and shape can appear with practically any tone or TID your machine can spit out.
Which leads me to question how detecting machines measure conductivity, particularly as it relates to mass, ie, footprint x thi
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
great price, Keith, if I didn't already have the same thing (less the large mono coil), I'd be ringing you up.
Don't you sorta hate to let it go?
Wayne
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ncwayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I was looking online for a different coffee grinder or blender for grinding my hot peppers and one of the search results was on offerup.com. I had not checked out offerup before so I clicked on the link. I looked at the blenders and then decided to check out the "collectibles" they offered locally. There I saw some coins and one of them jumped out at me as it had a date of 1692. It was
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ncwayne
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