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  1. I like the ergonomics of the T2/F75 very very well.Feels very natural to me! Here's what Dave Johnson the engineer of the product says about the mechanical design. How difficult was it walking the line between superb ergonomics and weight vs. structural durability (on the T-2 and F-75)? Dave: "It took a lot of attention to detail. I was originally shooting for even lower weight. Iโ€™ve been studying the physiology of metal detector ergonomics for my whole career and on this product I had a blank check to get it right. There were things we had to do to get the ergonomics right that added weight. We were all betting that good ergonomics was more important than shaving every ounce, and the T2 and F75 proved us right. Nobody is saying we should have made it lighter." Your T2 and F75 machines created many fans. To what would you attribute the success of these units? The best ergonomics in the entire industry, in fact the only products for which the manufacturer publishes ergonomic specifications. We did it scientifically, not by guesswork. STATIC BALANCE: FORCE IN VERTICAL PLANE NORMAL TO ELBOW 0.47 POUNDS (0.22 KG).VARIES WITH ADJUSTMENT AND USER'S STANCE AND ARM/HAND PHYSIOLOGY. DYNAMIC BALANCE: AXIAL MOMENT, 0.29 FOOT-POUNDS (0.39 NEWTON-METERS). VARIES WITH ADJUSTMENT AND USER'S STANCE AND ARM/HAND PHYSIOLOGY. SWEEP EFFORT: LATERAL MOMENT 5.2 FOOT-POUNDS (7.1 NEWTON-METERS). Keith
  2. Yes Daniel not much different on a T2 Vs F75. Yet I prefer a T2.I'm a sucker for the color green..And I like the 40 points of iron resolution just for the simple fact it lumps higher conductors closer together ..I dont like 3 ringers reading in the 50s I like them to read in the 70s ๐Ÿ˜†.I also like that the T2 does a hard reset on every turn on instead of a memory recall.Makes sure you set it like you want and dont rely on last site settings and also it seems to reduce noise that a hard reset seems to offer the Hyper machines from FTP. Yet they are both equal units maybe F75 is slightly hotter sometimes? I also like the F19 units for heavy iron as a complimentary unit to the t2/F75. There's alot of great machines but I've found as of late to get any more out of machines manufacturers are offering infinite settings and to me the more we can tweak the more we second guess ourselves settings wise. I like the K.I.S.S. approach to machines. Sounds like you got into the F75 in a trade so that's always nice for sure.Easy on the wallet!! I to am really interested in this Axiom.Looks like a great bad dirt and beach unit.!! Keith
  3. Good report Daniel.. Now you know why about a month ago On Toms forum I said if i could only have one machine it would be a T2. No Boost mode either a classic model๐Ÿ˜‰ People were like ???? but you got to know what ya know at the end of the day. Keith
  4. Video of the Apex on Monte's Nail Board Test.This is Monte's official Nail Board Test he sent me Years ago.I think for the large size of the stock coil and DD its quite Good!!Test done with factory tone break.Zero Disc.Multi Freq and some other solo freq's at one point for a comparison. Keith
  5. Yes but could tell a chage! The main thing about the Tarsacci is it punches mineral. The other stuff like the sheet of foil and iron unmasking etc is sort of a by product of this technology it so seems. Its fun to see what it can do messing around with it testing stuff..That can be a hobby in itself if your not carefull.LOL!! In the low end things happen like more purity of metal than actual conductance.Like small lead pistol balls will read the same deep or on surface.The salinity seems to really have control of items that can hit close to its dial range. Nails are another item you can get to be a little weird to help in unmasking.You cant remove them just like you cant remove that sheet foil with salinity but you can make them sort of less reactive in a way.But its all by products of being able to punch bad soil i feel. Keith
  6. Yeah concentric on a VLF might be your best bet for that test.BUT its still not going to do what the Tarsacci can do.. There's alot of great Detectors on the market for sure.. BUT the Tarsacci doing things that till now were just not doable.Things have really moved forward. Good test! Keith
  7. Your Quite Welcome Sir! Yes to find a detector that can do that would be a chore.Not saying there's something out there that cant with a ID system on it.But I don't know what it is. The Tarsacci is really advanced in alot of ways than what we have become used too. Mineral handling and or punch is it. and the other is lite metals.they can be skinned back. Keith
  8. ๐Ÿ‘ I might also add if the ground balance is too low the salinity does not seem to help till you set it to 650 or higher.I actually run it up some if its grabbing lower than 650 and I want to take advantage of the Salinity. It's rare in my area as most of my soil is 800s even 950 at times. But I know in good dirt like 580s and loamy fluffy if I want it to unmask in iron better I set ground to about 800 and Salinity to about 44.ish.and it really gets going unmasking. Keith
  9. At first i had pinging..The salinity will cure most and the pinging that's left will start to be dead flat quick sounding and the legitimate real high tones will be sonar echo hits. I promise they become nothing as you adapt. The salinity is a life saver and sometimes it takes about upper 20s to calm it down.-2 threshold seems to be the spot with 7 sens to really get adapted to it .still punches like crazy and the tones are easier to hear ping from sonar. So far Salinity has not caused me to miss even P.Caps and pistol balls at depth.The salinity can actually help pull a signal out of bad soil and rocks when on Vs being off. The salinity will also make aluminum weird sounding and crown caps. If you have some of that gravel at home turn salinity balance on and sweep over it and find the spot where it drops out or acts weak.then use that setting ..It will amaze you at what it will see then around those rocks. Pinging is the hardest part to overcome till you get it right and learn the language to know what to ignore that breaks through.Not hard but just takes time .Sweep speed helps alot too as does -30 disc. I at first thought man what's up.then it clicked.I'm a slow learner and it took about 45 hours or so to settle in.then you really start to see it do some things you never though possible with a discriminating unit. I see you see its doing something as I did too at first few uses,But once its all clicked and jelled look out. Way more advanced technology in mineral than I myself can even begin to comprehend. that's a nice looking Crucifix piece!! Keith
  10. Quarter under a sheet of aluminum foil. Tarsacci has the foil I.D .number Notched out which is about 6-7 ID.. Note the Safari is for demonstrative purposes only. Keith
  11. Yes Steve ive decided the transmission method of the machine whatever it may be is not as important as the Salinity balance.whatever that really is? and how it works. That is the true DNA of the unit.and yes your detailed report on salinity balance once you use it you will see it causes P.I. timing type effects.very reminescent traits will be noticed. Your very astute in your deciphering.!!! Keith
  12. Lots of good info. I've tried to understand the technology and the best answer I get is what if there's another way to designs a detector..Not VLF not P.I. but another way?But this way offers Pulse mineral punch ability and VLF disc ability. And I'm no electronics expert by any means.yet and I don't know .Can you pulse a transmit signal and receive continuous?HYBRID?Seems feasible. Read the patent closely.I'm a novice on reading technical jargon.BUT things stick out. Also and I mean this with all sincerity as the interview comes along in release stages I myself ask Dimitar stuff that may answer questions in a round about way. ? The Tarsacci can handle mineral well and punch it Clean.BUT I feel the salt balance is also part of this.its another dimension in handling soil that's not simply ground phase taken care of everything that at times becomes overkill ..It seems to clean up signals that phase shifting causes to be muffled or even muted. Keith
  13. Yes Steve..I dont want anyone to think its a walk in the park on my account.I too struggled with it and still have learning to do.Its a unorthodox unit.Its quirky.The worse the soil a person has the better results he may have with it.But you dont turn it on and get blown away on inland sites.It takes time to see what its doing and how to tune it find it out.Study what you see is happening and notice things its doing other units are not doing or struggling to do on in soil targets.If a user starts to pay attention to this he will see its strongest point. What i mainly wanted to do is how should I say is LET CAT OUT OF THE BAG .The strongest point to the machine is mineral punch.Its in alot of ways like getting a P.I. machine to run in the soil like with timings etc on maybe a GPX type unit.keep it stabilized learn audio traits. The Tarsacci is collecting alot of soil DATA that's for sure.Its seeing everything mineral, rocks,Even seems ground temp changes from sunny sites to shady sites.Its using a filter to silence these things very sparingly.In my mind and only my mind (no inside info) its doing this to punch tricky soil.See it all then try to decipher it in processor.So what this does it create a machine that can get mineral ping at times even slight blow back at times from soil.Sort of a all metal discing feel.But its pretty intelligent in what it does.It just creates quirky hits.Not dead pan hits but some weird feedback.And the salt balance seems to be there to help Filter some of that quirky ping hits. This is where adapting your brain to a ping hit to a sonar echo type hit comes into play.My biggest problem was and still at times is chasing pings.Foot deep small and or bent nails.I'm used to a say VLF chirp/ping being a deep goody barely making it through.On the Tarsacci pings are rejected targets.The sonar echo sound is the legitimate hits.(Gotta have headphones on).The biggest problem a user will face inland is deciphering these reports.its not the bigger nails and up iron its the small inch long or bent stuff.the machine wants to not let those pass by if its not getting a solid read..It will lean more to trying to let them through than assign them as iron.This is it so seems not to miss iffy deep goodies.Ive also learned that deep goodies say penny sized and up dont really ping or sonar echo they become a fuzzier high tone . As far as hunting my favorite sites .thick iron.If I had started out in a site like that with the Tarsacci i would of gave up.Learn it in light iron areas first off the edge of habitation sites etc.The iron hunting for me is where i like to be.more chances in habitation areas to make more finds than random scattered through out say the woods fields .And the Tarsacci exhibits something unique in that scenario. I'm not going to say its a Deus in iron its not.But it does do one thing well and that's punch bad soil.And I've always had it in my mind if I could combat bad soils and iron mixed there's more and its not deep.Maybe just lurking 2 inches.As we know that big coil is not the best for iron site work but its pretty dang good for its size on recovery speed from one target to another.Yet its not a blending type unit so it relies on gated audio.Much like T2s CZs etc.So what I see in iron is those targets are or should of been got but the combination of bad dirt and iron leech halos shut some targets down.I'm sure they were not severely masked in terms of abundance of nails etc on top of the targets and a good machine should of already got them.its the machines ability to handle or see through the halo fusion of iron soil and iron oxides meshed.Now this is all in my head but I know what i seem to be seeing.And its a thought process I have had for along time wanting a unit to be built that would combat it somewhat.That's my biggest enemy bad dirt lots of iron.. I know the beach hunters want a large coil.I want a small coil!!!I want to fully see what this unit will do in bad iron bad dirt mix..It may not be what it was designed for?? but it has something going on in iron.It needs to be explored further. Once I knew the sound of a legitimate target to a false the unit has became very conveying in iron.Its actually less noisy than most machines in iron its just the compressed audio traits are the learning curve.A user who dissects iron with vlfs will find the Tarsacci is well behaved comparatively speaking but you have to figure the audio out. I see what the unit is doing now we have to apply it.Learn it.Dont think old school think new school.It can feel alien but its doing something.First few hours I ran it actually first whole battery charge I was so disconnected from the soil I was almost depressed about it.but let it sink in.I like to have a connection to the soil and the Tarsacci to me was Chinese talk with a poor translator..Now its starting to feel more English to me.Well maybe Brooklyn accent English..I need it to get to Southern accent English LOL..I'm joking but I'm excitedly waiting for it to become second nature to me ,become my friend. I will also add I was at a disadvantage for the first few days.I was using a Bad coil.Yet wasnt sure it was bad.BUT after I got the coil fixed and sorted out the noise I was enduring dropped dramatically.BUT the first coil had taught me somewhat how to figure out hits.once I got a PROPER coil the intelligence level went up.And the language took off.So I had a handicap to start with but it actually helped me..A user coming to the Tarsacci will not see what I saw.And actually it is not that hard to digest the audio when its running right.Sort of like a FBS unit we had to learn the language.Its different BUT IT WORK'S! Keith
  14. Yes both triggers do the same thing.its for left or right handers.instead of having to mount the trigger in the pole in the center like on tejon they opted for under the control box and I'm sure its a engineering thing. There may be a concentric in the works but have no solid info. as far as the BlisstooI have no idea? Keith
  15. Hi Kac! I like the X very very well! But I like about all the DeepTechs.in my soil they are nice and deep. The new design to my ears has enhanced audio traits over the other already great audio traits DeepTechs.The added second disc is nice to have if needed.Yuo push trigger forward fro second disc and pull for all metal center is first disc. What I like the moat about it is its what i wanted a Tejon to be for years but never happened. I'm an old school hunter and grew up on analog and the X just feels like an old friend to me.But has some modern twist. They may not be for everyone and especially the newer generation of hunters .To them it may seem antiquated or lacking.But if you like to hunt and dig targets without meters and even be able to hunt in more modern trash areas where the old Vistas cant then its a win win. I actually feel the X has a cleaner disc of targets Vs the Tejon.But unmask as well as the Tejon and that's hard to do .I've always considered the Tejon to be the best single tone analog unmasker made. One thing for certain is the big iron that trips up the Tejon to make you dig it will not happen as often on the X.you know big iron very easily on the X. The build quality is very good and is weather proof but not water proof. To me its a straight up analog with some modern twist .and it just flat out makes finds.And can hunt iron very very good and go very deep.and can also be used in parks etc the same as any other full disc non-metered machine you've ever used with same type outcome. It has ability to control the Receive signal through threshold control.Very NICE! The Audio is everything on the unit .very rich and nuanced with subtleties. Makes you decide instead of the machine deciding.YOU feel more at one with the soil with the unit instead of feeling like I do alot of times with some machines that your disconnected from the soil by a artificial barrier. Is it the greatest machine ever made? NO but it is a machine I ENJOY and I can make it feel right to ME.And I like the as one with the soil alot of machines dont offer as much as we move on in technology. Keith
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