Steve Herschbach

They can fix the mobile menu in ten minutes. From my perspective it’s something that happens all the time and is no big deal. They may simply have counted on the desktop to mobile code to be handling the menu conversion and it did not. It’s a simple oversight that needs correction, that’s all. Anyone wanting manuals for current models would do better going here.

I doubt it. It just got left off the mobile drop down menu. The accessories link is missing also. The focus was probably on the main site and the mobile version got less attention. Easy fix.

Part of the problem is detectors are getting less expensive and shipping more expensive, so it hurts more as a percentage of cost having an inexpensive new detector shipped for repair. Definitely ruins the “I got a good buy” feeling.

The support area and accessories links are missing from their mobile website. On your Mini, Request Desktop Website and it should fix it for you. But you are right, they need to fix their mobile site. Desktop version is fine.

It’s not been updated in ages and the links to some of the people are dead. Almost none of them are posting anything of interest. The whole thing is just weird.

The VLF Bigfoot was an entirely different deal, first by being compatible with a very popular mainstream set of detectors, the MXT series, M6, DFX, and V3i. The market is far larger. And they have full discrimination plus ability to shut half the coil off for easy pinpointing. There really is no other VLF coil like it, so they go for a fortune now used.

White's is fabulous on parts and best contacted by phone. I'd call and would be very surprised if they won't sell you one for a nominal fee. https://www.whiteselectronics.com/contact-us/ It's a female 5 pin connector but I don't have a part number. This is from one of my V3i coils, which are interchangeable with the MXT.

Jimmy Sierra T-Foot dual field coil for White's TDI Jimmy shows off his coils including the T-Foot starting at 10:45 in this video.....

I had a couple Jimmy Sierra T-Foot 5.5" x 18" coils in stock at one time, and really wish now I had kept one. I thought exactly what you are thinking - perfect coil for beach sweeping. Jimmy Sierra coils for TDI Anyway, similar to the 6" x 18" mono you have coming but supposedly a dual field instead of mono. Very interesting about the Nuggeteer coil, I don't recall ever seeing anything about them before. Are they still around? I see the website is dead. Some coils for White's TDI

The increase in gold prices must be putting a fire under things. I noticed there were a lot more shows to add to the Forum Calendar earlier today. They have shows almost every weekend starting in February. Interesting with all the extra shows still no show in Las Vegas this year again, a bit of a surprise.

Lots of beaches pay big bucks for beach cleaners. I think a "Saving the Environment & Your Feet" T-Shirt and raking up trash would be a great public service! You might even find something good by accident while performing this great service.

Sometimes there is something better than a detector.... Another one (won’t embed)... https://youtu.be/zbXNcUqLAM8

Now that makes for a Happy New Year! I’m very pleased for you Peg, congratulations!

Now that’s some serious honest to God treasure hunting well undertaken and executed. Good for you and your team! I was going to ask but you pretty much answered the research part. To me that is the key to real treasure hunting.... having something real that can be researched with some degree of certainty. I see way too many people chasing pipe dream treasures that don’t even exist. Probably the vast majority of treasure hunting is somebody going after some story made up by a writer for a treasure magazine. Or being the zillionth person looking for the fabulous legendary whiz bang legend. And let’s not forget to use LRLs while at it. Anyway, it’s very nice to see you do something real and do it successfully. Congratulations!

There is a lot of stuff on the website that forum people never seem to try and look at. Been a puzzle of sorts for me. I think I’ll put up an “ad” of some sort highlighting different areas on a rotating basis.

Welcome to the forum Jim, good to have you here.

I use the stock headphones when hunting in the rain. If it’s not raining enough to wear my rain racket I don’t worry about it. If it raining enough to put on the jacket, the hood goes over my head and headphones. I’ve hunted a lot of days in the rain like that and see no need for anything more personally. I have some Bose earbuds I could plug into the ML80 and use instead but have never found it worth the effort. Prior Thread on Rainproof Headphones For Equinox

It’s all missing the point. It’s not about what can’t be detected. It is about how well the small gold that can be detected will signal, and there is good reason to believe Impulse will improve in that area. On any small gold that the Impulse can detect in saltwater, it should do so better than other existing products. In theory, subject to independent testing. We have had detectors that can easily detect thin gold chains since at least 1995. We don’t use a Gold Bug 2 in saltwater. Why? It’s not rocket science. A decent nugget detector is so sensitive to a conductive salt signal they will detect your hand, let alone an ocean. Any detector that is tuned such that it gets a bare salt signal is tuned as well as is possible for small gold in saltwater. That is the limit and we have been there for at least a couple decades. Saying anything will do better in that regard reflects a lack of understanding about the issue. When I hear claims about improved ability to find thin gold chains in saltwater I just ignore it as nonsense. I did hope the Impulse on dry land could run full out at 7uS but being locked into salt mode negates that possibility. It may be a practical limitation of what can be done at the analog level, something to hope for in a future digital version. Or it may be a marketing move to differentiate the AQ from the prospecting version, which by nature has to remove that limitation. Whatever, it is what it is. Once we eliminate salt though there is still small gold we can detect. The question is “at what depth?” For the small gold that the Impulse can detect in saltwater, how well will an Impulse detect it by comparison to the competition? That is the real question. Personally I don’t care much about finding the smallest gold in saltwater. I will be hunting the largest gold I can find, not the smallest. Micro jewelry detecting has always been a thing people talk about more than do. I don’t see troops of people on the towel line with Gold Bug 2s or Goldmaster 24Ks or even Equinox with small coils. If hunting micro jewelry is so great why is everyone not doing it? Answer - micro aluminum. Micro jewelry detecting is actually aluminum detecting and gets old pretty quick for most people. Those 1 carat diamonds on a post are a lot rarer than you think. If you want to hunt thin gold chains in the water get a rake. and another.... https://youtu.be/zbXNcUqLAM8

This and other free books can be found here on this website. See also the Downloads Area for manuals, catalogs, and more.

Well with apologies to Dew and in defense of the overthinkers (I’m one myself) the whole reason for a forum is to ask questions and discuss things. I guess where I have a hard time though I endeavor to be patient is when questions are asked that were answered earlier on the very same thread. People don’t read through, they jump to the end the ask the questions again. But that’s ok. It’s just the nature of the medium and people being in a hurry. And some stuff is complicated, like how disc is implemented in a PI detector and how it differs from a VLF. Bottom line is it is a job I took on myself to set up and moderate a forum and I’ve got no right and in fact am stupid to complain when people ask questions and discuss things. It is the reason the forum exists. So I do apologize Dew... your questions are welcome as are your contributions to the forum. That out of the way.... yes, I agree with you Joe!

You can’t separate small gold from saltwater using conductivity as your basis. Period, end of story. My hope however had been that on the dry beach the Impulse AQ at 7uS would have exceptional small gold capability and maybe even do well nugget hunting in low mineral ground. That hope was dashed. The minute I asked this question and got this answer I knew it was not to be. The Impulse AQ like the CZ-21 is locked into full time salt mode, even in all metal mode. It truly is designed specifically for saltwater use and specially targets the ring range at the exclusion of the salt/small gold/small aluminum range. It appears the 7 uS design is intended to boost ALL signals prior to processing. You can’t process what you can’t detect. Then unwanted signals are removed. First, ground and salt in all modes. Aim for stability. There goes small gold. Then add disc to take out most small and large ferrous leaving the gold ring “sweet zone”. That eliminates lots of targets like high conduction coins, silver rings, and large high purity gold rings if you set the disc aggressive,y. The tipping point is somewhere around zinc penny. The emphasis on both salt and black sand elimination at the expense of small gold sensitivity should make for a stable machine. It turns out the 7 uS spec was not intended as a way of finding small gold with the Impulse AQ model. That was just an assumption on the part of myself and others that has proven incorrect. It will no doubt be implemented for that purpose in the gold prospecting model, which will get rid of the salt elimination and disc modes in favor of small gold capability and variable tuning for highly mineralized soil and hot rocks.

Please read the posts Dew...I linked directly to the discussion of the 1c, 2c, and 5c Euro. First link in my last post and the discussion prior to it at that link. There is even a picture of the coins. To be honest, you have so many questions because you don’t follow the entire discussion and ask questions answered before. It’s like the small gold salt thing... I’ve tried to explain it to you before but you go on hoping and asking again when it is a futile hope. No matter who you ask or how often you ask the answer is always going to be the same. Tuning out salt tunes out small gold. For me there are almost zero questions left about the Impulse AQ. Except for silly stuff like will it leak? 🙂 But the performance parameters have been pretty well laid out already as far as I am concerned. I suggest you go back and read everything over from the start in the last half dozen threads.

That is the Minelab repair center where response has been exceptional. What email are you using?

The answers to all your questions are in this thread if you go back... https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/11421-fisher-impulse-aq-discrimination-explanation/?do=findComment&comment=112905 https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/11421-fisher-impulse-aq-discrimination-explanation/?do=findComment&comment=113006 Plus in this one... https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/11450-fisher-impulse-aq-unboxing-first-photos/?do=findComment&comment=112642