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  1. If it powers that car you were talking about then I'm going to put together 3-4 and power my house and the electric heaters!
  2. I would buy one but I like more moving parts when I spend that much money. If I can't see something moving and have big arrows and balance beams then I've paid too much!
  3. The 6000 can find large nuggets too! Thanks for posting.
  4. Someone needs to give us an 'estimate' of hardware costs for the components of these detectors. What percentage of the final sales price is it? We will then know a bit more about the R&D 'mark-up' associated with the final price which has to include profits. Without profits there won't be any follow-up or service deep pockets to correct problems. I buy phones that are in the $100-$150 range that brand names like Apple and Samsung sell for $800 plus. This means that the components must only cost $20-30 ... $50?
  5. Simon, Glad to know you recovered and will give it a go again under better conditions. You found two little pieces in a flogged area. How do you explain them? (missed or unseen)
  6. If there is any detector that will find a significant amount of gold at Rye Patch then the price is relatively unimportant to someone like me. I want to go out and find gold. I bought a $1500 X-coil so that I could do that with the 7000 and I think it is money well spent. We are at the end of the gold in places like Rye Patch and I still haven't found a chevron. I've found missed pieces in our local areas when I get out. Some guys who get out often are still finding a few nuggets here and there. We've got some patches down here that had a 'lot' of little gold 4-5 years ago but it's gone now. We can't find any with the VLFs, the 7000s, 2300s and the GPXs. If an AlgoForce can find some there it won't be because of its price. It will be because it has the right stuff. No doubt it could have found a lot of the gold found by previous detectors and we can prove that by using some of that gold as test nuggets in those patches. I'm with Gerry. This detector just seems to have some different features and some new PI views. Now, how can dealers make a buck? Gerry will provide training with his experts. Just my thought when you buy something as a direct sale to consumer.
  7. Thanks Simon. You do your testing. You can't respond here and test at the same time.
  8. Jeff, You have been involved with updating detectors, right? I'm betting that AlgoForce plans to listen to the users and tweak the units as necessary. That being said, your SDC comparison would seem to put it on a standard that many of us understand and tweak it to be as good ... maybe better.
  9. Consider the massive investment in inventory required to go from 'mom and pop engineers' to global marketing mavens. The 'fun' part for them may be the development of the detector. They are surely going to have to bring on someone that lives, sleeps and breathes marketing if they want to get tens of thousands of machines sold. What pieces of the company would they have to give away and more importantly their control. Does someone have deep pockets you want to help them out with and not charge a premium? haha That would make the price go up.
  10. Better to be on the list and cancel than ...
  11. I'm anxiously awaiting Simon's tests. His insanely mild soil reviews are a standard now.
  12. You have to have a detector that can find what is left in the known gold patches. The E1500 and my X-coils have a chance at it if you learn to use them. Both of them seem to be pushing conventional detecting to new limits. No doubt the ergonomics of the E1500 are superior to the 7000. That and the price will bring back the fun factor for people to get the remaining bits. After these machines deplete the fields will my sons be able to look forward to more detectors that will consistently break the .01g barrier in 5-6 years?
  13. Lately as I drive around Google Maps tells me that the GPS signal is lost. Has anyone experienced this? I've been in touch with my phone manufacturer (Blu) and they have had me clear the cache and memory but I'm still having problems. My son has been using my phone lately to play games so it may have been dropped. I've never had a problem with these phones before. It is recommended that I install another program that uses GPS and I have added a couple. One is called Compass & Altimeter by PixelProse SARL. I like that it is a simple compass but it also lists sunrise and sunset daily. I need to go out and drive around to see if it loses GPS signal.
  14. Yes, the crowd is jumping up trying to catch the home run ball!
  15. They sound ideal. There could not have been a better response. Things happen with quality control, and they want the part back, but they want the customer satisfied.
  16. I'm getting this conductive scale confused with IDing.
  17. Hear (pun intended) is my update. Tonight, I went out as I have several times in the past couple of weeks with the Costco hearing aids. They are Jabras as Jamie above has. The first couple of times I used them I was not impressed. My previous hearing aids were more comfortable and sounded better. They just couldn't stay in my ear. Since I returned them I've talked with some people who use Air Pods and they put a little foam tip on to keep them in their ears. That should have been offered to me but wasn't. Going back to the Jabras, I went back to Costco and they gave me some new cups and that has made a big difference. I can use them with the headphones and feel comfortable. The hearing aids also stay in because of a little 'tail' that uses the outer ear to keep them from sliding out. You also use the tail to pull the hearing aids out of the ears. I can still use the detector without the hearing aids and I think get 90% of the hearing but if I really slow down the hearing aids help. The Jabras are a little bit tinty as I would say and I think they have more to do with volume than quality of sound. There is an adjustment for frequency which I've lowered the power on the high and mid and that has helped the target sounds not sound scratchy. I can hear the electric clock in our dining area ticking which I can't do without the hearing aids in. Sometimes that is not such a bad thing when you have a couple of young kids! Costco gives me 6 months to use them and still get a full refund. I'll come back here and let everyone in on my experiences from time to time.
  18. I just got in from a beach hunt. My question is going to be, "How will it ID a zinc penny that is broken, bubbled, corroded and cracked?" Will it do any better with a tent stake in heavy black sand? As I was detecting I began to think of the phrase TGTBT (Too Good To Be True). We do need a detector that will tell us exactly what the targets are ... kinda like an XRF. I hope this does it and reduces some of the excess digging on beach hunts but it's not going to make good targets show up by itself.
  19. I think I prodded them a bit! haha
  20. I think jewelers 'cheat' all the time. Amateur jewelers cheat more than known pros. Solid gold is in the eye of the beholder! I'd dare say that some manufacturers do it as a profession like those who make fake collector coins.
  21. But some things are like a good, used 4Runner. They keep running and running. New is not always necessary.
  22. Do you really think a jeweler would use inferior materials when sizing a ring? haha
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