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He was on the ground near the pool negative edge a little hummingbird fledgling, we planned on just keeping an eye on it so it’d be safe from pigeons and geckles until it fell in the pool. My daughter rescued the poor little thing luckily it seems to be hanging in there. crossing fingers it makes it through the night. We will put him back out tomorrow and hope mom shows up. We called a rescue place too hope they return our call in the morning. this is gunna be a long night I think, lol I put him in a Dixie picnic paper bowl nest and set it on my nightstand cause they gotta eat every 20 to 30 minutes sat down on the bed and he was hanging by one foot off the side of the nest bowl heading in my direction, ha guess this is how it’s gonna be tonight anyway. shucks, it was cold…

I found the distance between armcuff and the handle to be too short for me on the lite as I am tall . And this distance cannot be modified as it is a single molded part. I prefer shafts where the armcuff handle distance can be set to my preferences.

We went to this area this afternoon! Wow! And it is in a gold region. It was shut down in 1952 but there is still active mining near. More on it later when there is time to put up pictures.

Hi Bob, Thanks for offering to share your knowledge. Fellow Apex user and happy to see the machine getting some love. What is the iron technique in pinpoint you perform to check for big iron? Checking the target size…or more to it? Cheers, Mike

that's incredible, even in our milder soils here the cupro nickel coins are terrible condition even when from the 80's and 90's, yet yours is in great condition, might have the right combination of soils to not react to it or something. Hopefully the Apex is a taste of things to come with the pending storm forecast.

I'm unsure how the US is set up for fibre, often countries that are not well into their fibre rollout will have fibre to an exchange then copper to the houses, that copper could emit EMI but I wouldn't think it would interfere with a detector much as they'll be either up on the power lines or buried well underground, The fibre cables themselves will emit no Emi and can't get interference from EMI either. We have fibre to our houses here, and fibre runs into our router which then we do our Cat6 and Wi-Fi connections. We have the choice of 2000 Mbps, 4000 Mbps and 8000 Mbps, for my needs 2000 Mbps was more than I needed so I could go on a cheaper plan. These transmitters you speak of would be at the exchange building, and unlikely to be a problem unless you're detecting right there. The cable itself running all around the neighbourhood will not be causing EMI issues. Underground power is more likely the culprit for EMI coming from an underground cable.

The cable itself does not put out any electromagnetic field that I know of, it is just carrying light, BUT there are transmitters generating those light pulses that can put out electromagnetic fields from the circuitry used to generate those pulses, and if not well shielded could put out what would be EMI. It is most fortunate that the cables do not act like antennas, so presumably you would have to be very close to a transmitter or amplifier / repeater to pick that EMI up.

I was just testing MBe mode.

First Texas regularly has new products listed on eBay. The other month I bought a $500 retail night vision monocular for $175. They had some of the less expensive Teknetics detectors listed too.

Is $650 the price for all 3 machines???

I (like Simon) was under the impression that the smaller the mono, the more prone they were to mineralised ground ?

Thanks Bob! Steelheader, I'm not sure; I was of the impression that for most who have my shaft, they run it with the remote on it, and then may run the WS6 on their stock shaft...to have two complete rigs. I wasn't sure if folks were using the WS6 with my shaft, or not (and so I told Ryan there my be no need to make a version of his WS6 mount that is compatible with my shafts). Is this something that you (and others) would find useful? Thanks, Steve

Jeff, did you experiment with Dt in Park mode on those flagged targets? The little extra depth I can get with BE mode comes with little to no extra target information compared to Dt enhancement at practically the same depth.

A very good thread topic.

Ha! My larger fuel tank came in the mail today. This one allows me to run my Geo Highbanker for about 12 hours. This new battery is rated at 100 Ah. My current battery is 60 Ah. Both of them will give me about 19 hours run time with the Geo Sluice and 53 hours with the California Mini. And, the new battery only ways 24 LBS. If I add a solar panel, it will be even more run time.

Welcome from East Texas.

I'm not sure about the windings at this stage, I'll have to find out. It can only either be semi-spiral or bundle as you know, it has good sensitivity though. I'll have to compare it to the Sadie, that would be a good indication too, if it's more sensitive than that it just can't be bundle.

Thank for sharing Simon, looks like a Winner for sure especially If it can beat the Coiltek 10x5” Joey. Was this a semi-spiral or bundle wound version? Now the Algoforce is out it seems like the market is going to be strong for this size coil for sure. I’d buy one right now.

Thanks! 🤚

That’s a good idea. I figured I could do something like that. I have a heat gun for bending plastic electrical conduit. I’m sure I could get one to fit pretty well. Thanks

Welcome aboard and go for it.

Former Nugget Shooter forum member here, good to see at least a couple of you, have new place to hang out... great to meet again! 😊

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I’ve never really had a coil without a skid plate. Except maybe the older whites machines. I was just curious I wasn’t sure if people took them off for a reason or if some of the older coils never had one. But I’ll let you know about the cool ASAP. My dad still swings the old whites for relics. I haven’t asked him about it. They still do well if you if you know how to run and listen to the machine.

Haven't used the minelab but Docs works great.

I've been interested in gold prospecting since the early 1990s (especially in the southwestern states). Retired now just turned 68, but my goal is to eventually get back to active prospecting.