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Проверил, с какого расстояния детектор видит нижний стержень CTX : Fisher F5 с катушкой 15 дюймов .......40 см. Quest Q20 с катушкой 9/11".......32 см, Срочно меняю .... Удочку подобного диаметра я уже купил.

I can confirm that the 9" Elite is one of the best coils for AlgoForce. Outstanding sensitivity and performance.

Geez probably will have to catch that after it's over. Going to be hard for me to dedicate 1.5 hours on a Tuesday morning. I'm really hoping Garrett hits a home run on this one.

Just letting everyone know I've uploaded the 3D printed Nox900 lower-shaft extender I designed to the downloads page. I know everyone is super keen for Steveg's Kevlar lower shaft, but this might suffice for now for some people. I've been using it for a few days and it's proving to be quite robust and pleasant to use, particularly when swapping coils. I'd be interested to hear other's thoughts about it, so let me know how it works out if you make one. I'm thinking I'll make a Manticore version too. I don't own one, but I'll pay a visit to Miners Den and get a lower shaft for reference. Anyway, I hope this helps a few folks out. 🙂

Hopefully that is the case but I know first hand that UV breaks down many resins.....probably got a lot to do with location but over here in Western Australia, the UV is quite intense. Once the resin polymer starts to break down then the raw Kevlar may be vulnerable. I'm probably now guilty of "paralysis by analysis".......damn it I want a titanium lower just to be cool 😎 Maybe, I'll get a Manticore clevis or two and then go from there. At the end of the day, we will all be covered by a fit for purpose product.

Based solely on the imagery, it just looks like a really unsafe detector. Pick your adventure: death by tsunami drowning, death by tornado blunt force trauma, or death by lightning electrocution.

A lot of the early stuff is a product of them listening to the forum users. Keith Southern was one of them they tapped into for info and he was a big fan of adjustable tone breaks and iron breaks. He especially favored detectors in the teen freq ranges...that 13 to 19 kHz range was his favorite and they seemed to cater to that range. Particularly with the Fors Relic detector. The T2 and F19 were two of Keith's favorite detectors and Nokta kinda blended features of the two for Keith with the Racer and Racer 2. I may be mis-remembering but wasn't the S rod design part of Keith and Steve H's preference? Those earlier days, that seemed to be a big back and forth...everybody had what they considered to be their favorite design and detector, and just wanted a little tweaking here or there done to it. Nokta was putting out machines faster than people could adjust to them.

At least that’s what it says at the sign up page, Runtime 1h 30m. With that much time there is hope we really will learn a lot about the Vortex, and better yet maybe there really is a lot for Steve & Steve to talk about. I admit I’m curious as I actually think this is one of the most important release announcements in Garrett’s history. The AT Max is not a bad detector, but you could almost hear the collective disappointment when it came out. Fans really were looking for a new flagship multi. Then came Apex, and again, not the high end machine people are expecting from a company as old and established as Garrett. Third time is a charm I guess but after all this buildup they better deliver this time. Third time at bat Garrett, time for a home run. Less than 37 hours away. I have to think a YouTube copy will be posted immediately after the presentation for those that miss the live stream. I guess they hooked me though since I did register and will be watching. Garrett Vortex Latest News Experience the Vortex - Streaming on Jun 18 · 8:00 AM · Runtime: 1h 30m Join us on June 18th for another exciting announcement from Garrett Metal Detectors! CEO Steve Novakovich and Marketing Director Steve Moore will guide you through this interactive event. Be sure to enter our contest for the chance to win a free detector too! Details are in the registration form!

LR you are following SSs lead some time back, crikey we are becoming a mob of domesticated pussies.......😉

I brought that up as well in another thread but Steveg assured me that's the fiber itself, the tube is made using the fiber and resins so the problem with UV and water resistance doesn't matter. Fibreglass does seem good though, and has changed a lot over the years, the fiberglass you can get now is nothing like the fibreglass of yesteryear.

I haven't posted any comments regarding the whole CF issue (triggered in certain conditions) but I will probably grab one or two Kevlar lower rods instead of CF. The issue doesn't really affect me as I beach hunt and the coil and lower CF shaft are essentially "as one"......no coil manipulation when locating targets, etc. The only time there is any coil movement is when sometimes adjusting the coil angle by foot. I may as well buy Kevlar as backups as I am covered for scenarios that may present problems if I go nugget hunting with the Manticore. I am 100% happy using the CF lower for the beach hunting I do.... with a "fixed" coil and a lower CF shaft (typically at 45 degrees). I just hope Steveg doesn't have to worry about another thread of 30 pages which likely gave him some sleepless nights. There was an awful lot of information to get through. Want to hunt nuggets with the Manticore = Use a non-conductive lower shaft Want to hunt on the beach (not water) with the Manticore = The stock CF lower shaft will be fine (but be aware that any coil movement/manipulation relative to the lower CF shaft may generate a response). Now.....I just Googled Kevlar resistance to UV and and to some extent saltwater. Maybe I'm missing something but it ain't pretty ??? Carbon fiber would appear to be superior to Kevlar in two important areas of water and UV resistance. But yes, Kevlar wins the conductivity category. Good ol' fiberglass does the best overall.

Did the dealer do the update or did you? I'm glad it all worked out!

Cointopia was a great learning experience for me, very little trash, probably 20 coins to every bit of junk. I really got to hone my silver finding ability by having so many silver targets in the wild to recover. The more you dig targets, the more you learn how they behave, what they sound like and so on. I got to the point I was always confident of the coin I was about to dig before digging it, and I was rarely wrong or surprised. Sadly jewellery is not my strong point at this stage, either people don't lose it or I suck at finding it. I quickly learnt I was the first to detect those sites, and oddly enough detecting is such a rare hobby here I can pretty confidently go to plenty of places and be the first to ever detect them. IT's grown in popularity lately in the big cities, but once away from them into the small regional towns you can be the first still to this day to run a detector over the hot spots. It's a shame your trip was so short and you didn't get to experience some of this stopping in at the many places you drove past to swing a coil, you would have found your own cointopia for sure, guaranteed. If I can dig it all in places I do, hard in parkland type places and certainly not in sports field areas, at least in gold areas the rabbits dig more holes than I ever could so the damage I cause is very minimal by comparison, so I can dig dig dig and I do. I'm not sure if you wandered down to the lakefront beach in the heart of Queenstown Mitchel, but it's very likely I was the first to detect that only a couple of years ago, if I wasn't the first the person that went, the person before me wasn't very good, as they left a lot of very old coins in the ground and over $100 worth of $1 and $2 coins that I was able to get my first time detecting it.

I'd be elated if any manufacturer focused solely on discriminating between gold and aluminum. It's not like it has to be anywhere near 100% accuracy either, because right now we're basically at 0% accuracy. What would even suffice for now, is a change in technology that was good enough to warrant the introduction of a gold probability meter.

Heard that same thing from the locals here in our mild soils that have ventured in that direction. We should all be rooting for Garrett, crazy not to, the more competition in the marketplace the better. We are hopefully on the final leg of the wait now to see what they can deliver.

I just turned on the TV on a all western station and in capital letters was VORTEX under it it said words and pictures . Now I can say I’ve seen that word more than one place. I’m really wanting to see it Tuesday of this coming week. Hopefully it’s more in a word than we’ve ever seen before. Chuck

May 4 2003 We continue to make progress on our trail. We have not heard or seen anyone in the entire area including camp at last year's dig site. It’s completely quiet. I can’t explain it but I have a sort of ominous feeling about the trail and Dreamwind Canyon. It’s as if I can feel bad energy as we are working. We are all just going about our business without any distractions so everything is off to a good start. Paul is a real work horse and is doing more than his share of labor. We are making great progress and I am hopeful that we will have the new camp set up within a few days or maybe a week. TO BE CONTINUED ..............

Absolutely. I have had a few instances like that too with gold chains and with damaged rings. For me, I practice really hard when I'm not actually hunting and when I am to not walk over good sounding gold range targets that have the "right" audio characteristics depending on what detector I'm using. When I am hunting with Deus 2 at least for me, plenty of targets sound borderline to iffy, even shallow ones. I will always try to dig 15 or 20 of those no matter what, if their numbers are right. I usually can call them as aluminum before I dig and I haven't been surprised yet. It's the really solid sounding targets with the right footprint that I make myself dig no matter what. Most of the time with Deus 2 they are aluminum or nickels but a few times they have been gold rings, chains, earrings or pendants. Making sure I know what the characteristics are of a "got to dig it" gold range target is my number one requirement when coin, jewelry and relic hunting and cherry picking is the only option.

While that's true with the Equinox, it's not with the Manticore, the shaft reacts reasonably badly in Beach low conductor and Beach deep. What this tells me is someone that looks for small gold jewellery on beaches has a lot more hope finding it with the Manticore, and that's a great thing, the Manticore no doubt in my mind is quite a big improvement over the Equinox as a beach hunting machine after seeing how much more it picks up a carbon shaft than the Equinox in some of its beach modes, it's been said a few times the Manticore was intentionally designed around being a machine for this task, and it does seem that's the case, although in all their testing they must have missed something as the firmware update included this, "General Stability Enhancements: Including improvements to Beach Mode Ground balance on dry sand" The Equinox in general doesn't react near as badly as the Manticore does on the shaft, in any situation, demonstrating the extra horsepower the Manticore has. I'm a lot like you Erik and your car noise analogy really suits my way of thinking, stuff can drive me mad and I can't let it go until it's fixed 😛 I've been known to pull many all nighters tackling tasks as I can't let them go until resolved, no point going to bed as I won't sleep until it's fixed! The best thing about this whole shaft debacle is I'm more impressed by my Manticore than ever, seeing it's differences over the Equinox, it's not just another mildly modified Equinox like the 900 is, it's a new animal, different enough to be a new detector, not something that could have been done with a firmware update to the 800 like the 900's software changes.

For me, digging everything with a PI is still the safest method, in particular when paired with "selective detecting". What I mean with that is that I do alot of scraping and digging, before I even start detecting. By a river I think about where gold could be (think like gold), then I start removing rocks and dig holes before I even start firing up my detector. On a typical 8h detecting day I find myself roughly 4 hour digging and 4 hour detecting. This method can be productive, since gold is usually not just laying around (anymore) for easy detecting. So, if I just wander around by a river and detect I seldomly find anything, unless I really dig. In the desert I most often do the boot scrape method but then detect everything that's left when using PI or ZVT. The VLF I most often use for tailing piles and then strictly go by ID, but caveats need to be understood. GC

Set realistic expectations and that’s when you get pleasantly surprised instead of continually disappointed.

The earlier stuff definitely seemed similar to FT stuff. Makro Racer models and the Nokta Fors both had FT style menus and functionality but they definitely left them behind by entering the world of multi frequency. Forgot that it was Detekniks before changing to Quest. I would imagine that with an international marketplace that minute patent disputes could easily go on for decades without resolution.

I and quite a few others on the referenced thread do not either. Non-conductive lower rods have been a near absolute (there are exceptions, CTX for instance) industry standard for decades. Why? Because a conductive lower rod might cause issues. Not will, might. The simple answer for companies like White’s to make sure it could not be an issue was to use fiberglass lower rods on all their models, as White’s did for ages. It never had to be thought about or engineered around because the problem could not exist. I do not have any issue with anyone making an informed decision to use an aftermarket rod that is conductive. It will not affect most lower frequency applications, beach modes in particular which tend to knock out the salt range. Informed decision being the key. What I do think is not wise is for manufacturers to use anything but non-conductive as a general standard. It’s just a common sense solution to keep accidents from happening. I’m sure Minelab simply overlooked the possibility of an issue when they switched from non-conductive lower rods on the Equinox 600/800 to conductive lower rods on the 700/900 and Manticore. For most people it will be a non-issue but for anyone running Gold Mode in particular it’s going to bite you. But it can show up in any mode that has a 20 kHz or higher frequency as a component, either singly or in multi. Easiest way to tell is just lay the coil back flat against the rod and wiggle it. You’ll know fast if there is a problem. There are quite a few people who obviously are very defensive over all this and react poorly when it is brought up at all, insisting it can’t be real or a problem. Check it out and decide for yourself instead of listening to anyone, including me. The idea is for people to have information to make their own informed decisions. You know, learn something - knowledge is power. Simply knowing what this is and why it occurs can help alleviate or avoid the issue entirely, as long as you are expecting it. Not everyone who owns these models will use them exclusively in Beach Mode. And that’s where Minelab erred in my opinion. The standard rod should be perfect for all modes and applications, not just most of them.