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Keith Southern Wrote:
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> I stated this in a another thread...WHY 40??
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> Yet they maybe have assigned say 3 points to nickl
> es and maybe 15 points to copper and silver??then
> all the rest of the stuff gets lumped into the re
> mains..??
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> The Xterra 705 has 48 non ferrous but only uses e
> ven n
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D&P-OR Wrote:
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> Not broad enough IMO.---We will just have to wait
> & see how the I.D.'s fall.----Maybe Minelabs "got
> something (new) up their sleeve" in this regard.--
> -We'll know soon enough!
I'd have to hope they know how important this is and that they set up the scale such that
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40 non ferrous TID numbers is totally fine if the TID is accurate and stable at depth, as they claim it will be. Heck, I'd even take 10 TID numbers if it delivers good TID at depth as good as or better than the CTX/e-trac.
As a deep coin hunter, accurate TID at depth is the most important performance attribute for me. I hunt old hunted out parks and schools, and sometimes go an hour o
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Flbchbm Wrote:
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> The proof will be in the pudding. Here's hoping th
> e TID does what I need it to do. Or that the frequ
> ency choices give me some advantage that offsets t
> he lower TID resolution. Overall, I really like th
> e design. Looking forward to getting my hands on o
> ne and wringing it out.
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Gonebeepin' Wrote:
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> Flbchbm Wrote:
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> > Man, That TID range really bums me out. 50 segme
> nt
> > s is low resolution, not high resolution. If tho
> se
> > segments are linear, I see a lot of lumping targ
> et
> > s together
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Yep, that's huge. There are other adjustments that the 800 has that the 600 doesn't like tone break, tone pitch, threshold pitch, and manual noise cancel. As a coin hunter, I was starting to think the 600 might have been enough for me, but now I know the 800 is the right detector. Can't have enough adjustments (that coming from a V3i guy who loves all the complexity)!
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Tom Slick Wrote:
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> White's IDX Pro still has a following, Sovereign i
> s still strong, XL Pro, GMT, Fisher Gold Bug II, a
> nd any PI.
There is a pattern there, they are some of the best detector designs ever. Each one of those nailed their intended purpose. XL Pro: deep silver seeker that covers lots of ground quic
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I guess for some people it doesn't matter, but for me Made in America is still a selling point. Of course the other features are important too, but Made in USA is still a positive factor, and all else being equal, I will buy the American made product. I'm glad White's is making the effort to make their detectors here in America. God bless them!
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Steve, good musings. I tend to agree with many of your "what-ifs." I've said for a long time that VLF technology is not dead, it just needs the application of smart DSP. Yes, the limits of physics have been reached, but we are just entering the whole next level of DSP, i.e. computerized manipulation of the VLF signals being sent and received.
Here's an analogy with ham
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Yes, great stuff Brandon. Thanks for your posts here on the forum.
Like Steve, I’d really like to know how the EQ does as an old school coin shooter, particularly ID accuracy at depth, something we all know the CTX and etrac excel at. I know local soil conditions have a lot to do with different machines relative performance, and so it’s always hard to say how they would compare in someone el
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Isn't the big question still what kind of multi-frequency technology the Equinox uses, i.e. xTerra-style VLF but tweaked, some sort of slimmed down BBS or FBS, or something entirely new, and secondly, how does it perform?
Minelab says it uses a new technology called "Multi-IQ, Simultaneous Multi-Frequency Technology," which is at least a new name if not actually new technology
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The tone ID is great on these analog machines. I had the mod on myXL Pro but unmoderated when I realized I really only used myXL Pro for nostalgia hunts and the single tone was all I needed. Serious hunting gets done with my V3i and MXT nowadays. The one mod I wish I could do would be a 5900-style manual ground balance on myXL Pro. That would be the perfect analog machine for me. That 5900 is
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Tom, Hombre is right on. Without the tone mod, about $500 plus or minus $100 depending on condition. The tone mod installed adds another $200 or so to the value.
I bought mine 12 years ago new on closeout for $499. That's the best $499 I ever spent in 37 years of detecting and wouldn't hesitate to spend that again on a good used unit.
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coinhunterseth Wrote:
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> I always thought DD's separated better than concen
> trics.
Left to right, yes, but front to back, the longer pattern makes it separate less well. Like everything, it's a tradeoff. Usually left to right separation is more useful when sweeping in the typical broad swinging pattern. But when slo
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Mike Hillis Wrote:
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The F19/
> GoldBug/G2 did well although large deep iron sound
> s non-ferrous and you have to learn to use the aud
> io to size the target. Audio duration was a dead
> give away for large deep iron on the F19/G2/Goldbu
> gs.
> HH
> Mike
That's why I finally sold my old IDX which I h
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What about the lowly White's IDX? Don't have one anymore, but I used to be able to slowly crawl around the iron using the 6" concentric coil. Worked pretty darned well up in the old mining camps that are a sea of iron trash.
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lytle78 Wrote:
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> At "our" end of the market however - enthusiasts w
> ho choose carefully and spend more - there is stil
> l room for top-end units of superior performance -
> sold at a premium price.
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> So - detector makers - bring them on! Not just ne
> w packaging and new programs, to give
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The Turks do seem to understand the importance of blendy audio vs gated audio is the key to unmasking with VLF. Can't wait to see some videos of the audio in heavy trash, especially aluminum. Thanks for the nice write-up.
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GPR has a long way to go before it's even close to being commercially viable for us park hunters. We have a $20K state-of-the-art GPR unit here in my office that we use for archeological research. It's basically like a big push lawnmower that you struggle to push across the ground that sends data to an attached laptop. It's very tricky to use properly and even when you know what
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Frank in NH Wrote:
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> What are you looking for in a machine we don't hav
> e already?
Love to see a new flagship, or at least a significantly improved flagship. Personally, I'm holding out hope for a V3i Pro. I mean c'mon, White's hasn't even done a minor update of the V3i for 7 years, a detector that
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Yes, I'm not really a fan of the V3i discrimination channel audio either. It's too digital and laggy, probably in an attempt to keep it quieter and easier to interpret for less experienced users. It Really needs hotter, sparkier, "blendier" disc audio. Less processing of the audio would speed up the response too. And like several posters have said, it *does* have modulated
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Mike Hillis Wrote:
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> Wayfarer, If you watch the screen when you are gr
> ound balancing the V3i you can see the frequency t
> hat is hanging you up. Offsets are applied to al
> l three frequencys so you don't want to use a lot
> of offset points to achieve a ground null. If 22.
> 5 and 7.5 are nulled
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tnsharpshooter Wrote:
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> Where is the light weight V3i??
> Btw,,,this particualr unit still has potential,,,,
> just needs a new look,,,and simplified way of acce
> ssing settings.
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> these detectors,,,,with some ingenuity ap
> plied,,,,they are not dead by no means.
You are right! The V3i had so much pr
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tnsharpshooter, thanks for bringing up this topic. The V3i doesn't get talked about much here on this site, so I was happy to see this topic.
The V3i is a good detector. I've hunted with one on and off since 2012 and have hundreds of hours on it. The one thing that really bugs me about this detector is the auto ground balance is not very good. I was wondering what I must be doi
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Harold,ILL. Wrote:
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> Also a very Rare Whites XL-Pro with Tone I.D. Modi
> fication package.
Yes, two very nice detectors, the two best analog detectors ever made IMO.
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Thanks for the link. Too bad it didn't turn up any gold. But it stirs the imagination about all the hidden gold and other loot that the Nazis must have hidden as they retreated. They were known for looting as they went, so there's got to be little troves all over that are waiting to be discovered.
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Just curious, does this sef coil work as well on the V3i as well as it does on the MXT? The MXT guys all say it's killer but you don't hear much about it on the V3i.
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The White's XL Pro for just a great classic analog experience, warm nostalgia that brings me right back to the detecting heyday of the 1970s and 80s.
The White's MXT. No machine has such a great mix of simplicity ruggedness and sheer performance.
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Lots of good thoughts. I do agree that VLF tech has pretty much hit a wall, actually, probably 20 years ago, and all recent designs have been relatively minor tweaks of the same basic technology. FBS is probably the furthest advancement so far, but still not exactly breakthrough.
Reading Monte's post made me think back to the 1980's when breakthroughs were coming every few years:
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Hombre Wrote:
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> Darren...
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> I can only comment on what I am experienced with,
> so that leaves out the MXT and M6. The Tesoro
> ED-120 machines like the Bandido and Toltec ll &
> Pantera are hard to beat in the small ferrous
> trash. The MX5 set up in one tone with iron
> notched out comes very close t
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