Tony

I just can’t see Fisher launching any other pulse units…….I feel it’s the end of the road for that line of detectors 🥺

Would I like to see myself wrong…….most definitely. 

Absolutely nothing wrong with a manual ground balance 👍

If the ground is highly variable then a bit more tweaking is needed but quite often you will have a better tuned machine over an Auto GB

I may be biased as a I drive a manual 4WD with manual windows and manual locking hubs 😳

Hello Paul,

Best of success in WA (I think you like our gold😎)

I’ll be out most of September with a couple of your fellow hunters from the USA. At this stage, in the Leinster area.

Might bump into you at some point in time.. 👍

Tony

2 hours ago, Aureous said:

If anyone in the US can find a spot where you can actually weld the soil into pig-iron, you are getting into semi-Australia type conditions. I haven't seen or heard of anything remotely similar there? 

So true…… the next time I see an ironstone outcrop (here in WA) that has been struck by lightning, I’ll be sure to take a photo. It can look like a small solidified lava flow 😳

I wonder if he got a genuine one…😉

Hello Clive,

Loving the Sea Hunter (XL500)……mind you, Eric did a lot of work on it. As you know, the Ikelite cases are bulky but I mount mine like a backpack and forget that it’s even there 👍

Eric made it a Motion detector, upped the pulse rate and increased the pulse width to help capture the bigger pieces of gold. Min delay is 20uS which for me in moving saltwater is the Goldilocks setting. It’s quite a beast and I wouldn’t swap it for anything on the market.

Hope you’re having a good summer in the briny 👍

Fisher Engineers to each other: “Looks like the Super Shampoo Stabiliser MK2 was all we needed” 🤔

Probably the best 13 cents you ever spent Clive 👍

Just to lighten up this thread….

GP3500 to SD2100: You tough son of a bitch…….wotcha wearin’ ?

SD2100: Full Metal Jacket

GP3500: Sssswwwweeeeeeet

SD2100: You still da main man though….that GB button is killer

GP3500: Yeah but you always got my back if I ever go down

SD2100: Thanks Bro……let’s go find some real nuggets

Ooohhh…..those “shark infested waters”…….maybe they will find “snake infested jungle” as well 👍

2 hours ago, vanursepaul said:

I appreciate that Tony--- do you have a spare Ute i can borrow for 6 months--- and a fuel card maybe???? LOL

 

Sorry no spare vehicle (My 76 Landcruiser is for me)…….I do have a spare SD2100 which means you will find the big ones and not waste too much time chasing the piddly one grammers with the latest machines 😜

Time to go to work…….that’s if I can drive in a straight line 😂

What happens in the goldfields stays in the goldfields 😎

Coffee just blew out my nose……….I just read Gerry’s post and under the PICK section…….on this is priceless. Should do a screenshot before it gets edited.

Can you crack a rib from laughing 🤣🤣🤣

2 hours ago, phrunt said:

Australia 🙂

I think I'd rather live in Perth than Meekatharra although the little nuggets scattered all over the ground there would be a nice little bonus 🙂  Perth seems a nice city, my wife went there for her work when we were in Brisbane and came home wanting to move there, I had to put my foot down as it's too far from snow for skiing 🙂

I never went to Perth, like most east coasters the west coast is a bit alien to us.  A shorter flight to another country than to Perth 🙂

 

Well I have Kiwi neighbours on both sides of my house…….complete with Jandals and Chilly Bins (Simon will understand what I’m saying). 
It is remote over here……just the way we like it 👍

Meekatharra is not where you would go for a holiday 😳

5 minutes ago, phrunt said:

Why not just move there? I can't say I'd be as excited as you are to be going there, I avoid the place like the plaque and leave my wife to go visit the family without me 🙂

Okay….where is “there”……Meekatharra or Australia 😂

Hello Paul,

Well I might see you out that way…..I’m kind of retiring soon so hopefully will be out and about a bit more. I live in Perth so that’s about 700 kms from Meekatharra. Let me know if there is anyway I can help you out at any time……unfortunately I don’t know where the nuggets are 🤔

Tony

I was doing just fine until I watched “Gold” on Stan 😳

3 minutes ago, Sheppo said:

Will also add to what JP said and that’s you don’t want a pack of wild dogs on to you while you’re prospecting either.
 

You see one? Get out of there. More than one? You may be in for a bit of a ride.

We should be allowed to carry a 9mm pistol if prospecting remotely………it’s a long walk back to camp for the 30.30

Hello Clive,

Regarding the problem with 22K big gold (and 18K to an extent as well)…..I’m sure this is tied in to the AQ’s low pulse width which needs to be longer in order to fully energise these class of targets. I’m guessing a long pulse width and very quick delays don’t play well together?
 

 Clive,

Who makes that coil…..is it Fisher’s or from someone else?

Thanks Joe……I suspect the pulse width may be quite low, maybe in order to run those crazy low pulse delays?

HH

Tony

Does anyone know what the TX pulse width is on the AQ ?

I know from previous experience and from some PI machines that I have used (and currently use) that longer TX pulse widths are important to energise the bigger gold rings (which can also be the higher karat ones as well).

Typically, greater then 300 uS is needed in order to “light these targets up”. Furthermore, quicker pulse delays are not essential in seeing these bigger targets as the decay drop-off isn’t so pronounced when compared to the smaller profile rings.

 Tony.

On 10/7/2018 at 9:34 AM, Jin said:

Any thoughts on this coil re gold hunting? Been out for a while. Is it flat wound? Don't really see anyone mention using one. I liked my 24" dd but it was heavy. Picked up the 22" dd and noticed it was so much lighter. Would like to buy another dd but unsure what to get. Also looking at the commander 18" dd or anything else anyone may recommend.

Thought I’d respond to an oldish thread……

The Coiltek Goldstalker 22” DD is bundle wound which helps keep it at a relatively light 1100 grams. Compare this to the smaller but heavier Minelab Commander 18” DD which is around the 1350 grams….ouch.

I have recently started some lower beach detecting with my SD2100 and 18” Kevlar Mono coil…..the results have been staggering with some seriously deep old gold rings and “other” stuff. 

The big monos can suffer from EMI so I am looking at a getting a big DD coil.

Anyone care to guess if the big Goldstalker can sniff out the deep stuff and block EMI…….I’m guessing it might be an okay combination. I’d love to get the 18” mono performance without the EMI problems .

 Thanks Tony 

PS…Tried the Detech Ultimate DD but being spiral wound made the SD a bit too chatty.

The orange battery case is a third party 3D printed case that holds 3 x 18650 Lithium cells. No need to spend $$ on AA batteries and the run time on Lithium cells is just massive 👍

I will let you know if ever I decide to sell her…….it would be a sad day for me.

I have to thank “Karelian” who kindly sold it to me…..he has one as well in as good a condition.

Regards

Tony