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Dilek, your service response makes me weep. No one is as caring for customer needs as you and your company! Well, NASA-Tom and Dimitar with Tarsacci come really close as I think about it. And Gary Storm when he had DetectorPro... I gotta stop I am getting too emotional. Man there are a lot of awesome people in this business/world!
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Nicely done on the photos Gary! Is it possible to order a connection from NASA-Tom for the headphone of our choice? I'd love (pay) for one that was a 1/4 inch standard jack or even maybe a Equinox or ?
If it was not too high priced I'd do it in a heartbeat!
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For most people the near $1k difference may be pretty hard to justify. I beach hunt 800 plus hours a year. I see it as a part of my tool kit. I've mostly used the 8000 for the last 2 months, but I still use my 800. How much more will anyone find with the Tarsacci over the Equinox can never be answered. I really like both. I think the Tarsacci has great potential as I learn to use/under
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> Sounds right, though I would do threshold BEFORE sensitivity, but what do others say?
The manual states:
"If the detector becomes too noisy, and quiet work is desirable, a more negative threshold may be used to reduce detector chatter." (p. 20)
"If the volume of salt becomes too conductive (i.e.: subme
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Well, Aaron the Tarsacci for one . Yes we are in a golden age of detector advancement and my pile of 'obsolete' detectors is growing, but my arsenal of practical tools is too!
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I am always on the look out for a better pinpointer. I have a carrot in both my beach and field belts so I can swap if I need a back up. I am thinking of carrying 2, a short range and a long range but haven't decided what would be #2.
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Mode wise I usually do All M. I will go Mix if I get bored at the monotony of ferrous targets and Disc when I get brain fried and just don't want to hear anything but happy sounds.
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Gary in D. sadly the Tarsacci is just like every other detector in the best advise is in the manual. Beyond that universal truth... do what we did. Bury what you most want/expect to find and try different freq.s and modes. See what works for you and your location. See how deep you can bury it before it is beyond reach. Try lifting the coil to see how much air you can get (knowing that poor s
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Sterling pendant and 14k ring (1.2 gram) I found with 8000 on the same day, in salt water & black sand.
Sorry I was not clear here- No, we have dozens of other gold rings found with our other machines. I only referred to our finds in the last week with the MDT 8000.
We have 6 Excals, 3 Equinox, 2 CZs, a CTX and a bunch of other fine machines (gathering dust) between us. We have been
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Along this line Larry and I met with Dimitar today at the beach to get our early units software updated and a tweek of the battery cap design to conform with already shipped units- don't even ask. To check out our performance he flipped each 8000 over and set a plastic ruler on the coil bottom and waved a silver dime to where it faded out. Both units saw the dime to the end at 12 inches.
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For a big coil, I am impressed at how relatively light and sensitive the 15 is. Yesterday I hunted my local 'hunted out' park with my buddy who got a new 800 for Christmas. He scored some wheaties and was pleased with that. He had been using a 705 for years and was very competent with it. I pulled two silver dimes, a 1960 and a 1943 in very good shape. I also found an Uncle Sam dim
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As the one who did the above mentioned 'test', I never intended to indicate that our results would equal a 21 inch burial. I can see it was poorly worded and misleading. I was thinking of hunting over ice plant, rocks etc. where you cannot get close to the ground. I am a novice at primary level testing and like many, learn from mistakes. Clearly I did here. I was thinking clearer t
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The most helpful thing I've found for depth indication is the number generated by the pinpoint. Instead of a guestimate of distance it is a signal strength rating. The physics of it all is that several variables go into the process in a perspective- big far and small close seem the same. Counter intuitively, the bigger the number the shallower the target.
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Dilek you are awesome! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and all your staff and co-workers! Your high standards of quality and service are an inspiration. I look forward to your Christmas greeting each year!
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As an elder statesman on this subject let me say, first, "Amen!" and second, don't scrimp on FULLY charging the batteries before using. I'd swear it takes longer to do the first time then than it does there after, but it may be new toy anxiety...
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Salt does not change much. Set it once and it should be fairly good. There is a recommended base setting in the manual. I have not seen much problem where I hunt and not changed it going to inland hunting and checking better or worse or no change toggling Black Sand and leaving Salt alone.
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I love the conversation! I suspect most cannot really grasp (pun intended) the subject without having the shaft in hand. My thoughts go to a short length of tubing with an envelope of sturdy material that held sand or shot and served as a steady base for the detector when set down. Production issues not fully thought threw. Still a fan, Steve!
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It was a clear steady non ferrous target ID all the way. Just before the signal faded out (6-7 inches above the sand) it would blink a negative number ID at the extreme ends of each swing.
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Not just using the Tarsacci, but it was the inventor/developer Dimitar Gargov, that he ran into. I met him last October in much the same way. 20 years ago he was an engineer with Fisher, Los Banos and worked with our NASA-Tom.
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Yesterday Big Larry and I met at our beach and buried an 8 gram, 14k ring at 14 inches to test maximum depth. We couldn't get any deeper as the hole would collapse and we were down to the saturation point. After filling in the hole we swung over it and looked confused. It just barely saw the target. So thinking what the heck we dropped down to 12 kHz from 18. Bang! It hit hard and then
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Dimitar Gargov has tested several of the available batteries and says he does not believe there is a performance improvement beyond the included ones. They are easily purchased and affordable. I find they charge slowly, but I am not sure that is a bad thing. You really don't need more than the two it comes with but more are about $8 each on the big river.
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If we are going to go CZing, there is a can of new worms. I still have a couple 3Ds in the litter of detector puppies and various coils. As I recall coil size impacted EMI significantly with CZs and the newer coils handled it better than most older ones. Does that track with your experience Tom? Of course, size matters with any system, but my increasingly unreliable memory says it was more so
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Yes I have done some- Larry no. I am pleased with it's performance in old, hard hunted park. I went to a spot where they have dumped the dredged soil from the duck pond for years- eats coins like you can't believe! It ran smooth and did a good job of cleanly ID targets.
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As counter intuitive as it sounds, I don't think the lack of secondary coils will be an issue. I have all three coils for the 800 and am very happy with them, but I have no inclination to get a different coil for the 8000. I know it's subjective, but I personally don't see the need of a smaller coil or a bigger one. You really have to run this detector to appreciate what it is a
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OK, you convinced me, skip the holes, I'll take one with rod and counterweight please. I also posted on your facebook page, Steve's Detector Rods but I only want one for now. Maybe after I get a 600...
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