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Nokta/Makro Legend Available In USA
Cal_Cobra replied to GB_Amateur's topic in Nokta / Makro Legend Forum
Hoping to get this coil on the Legend. Dilek we NEED this 10″x5.5″ (GK26C) coil in DD format for the Legend: -
Congrats on the gold (and silver)!! That's a beautiful area, I've beach detected a couple of times around that area with no success.
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5 Best Metal Detectors 2022
Cal_Cobra replied to ☠ Cipher's topic in Metal Detector Advice & Comparisons
We should develop a defacto standard for testing and rating the various categories. All-in-one, relic, gold, beach, coin, etc. Beginner? Kind of like the Consumer Reports of metal detecting haha -
5 Best Metal Detectors 2022
Cal_Cobra replied to ☠ Cipher's topic in Metal Detector Advice & Comparisons
Oh I agree, and if we thought this latest round of product release and/or subsequent "conversation" was an event 😲 Heads will blow when the next gen EQX is announced, it'll be insane haha 🤠 I would add the Legend to that list, certainly before I'd put a D1 if there's already a D2 on the list. 🧐 -
5 Best Metal Detectors 2022
Cal_Cobra replied to ☠ Cipher's topic in Metal Detector Advice & Comparisons
What about the Equinox 1000 Pro? -
BINGO! Mike your spot on! There was a huge debacle about the manual having the setting backwards, and many folks felt it was more quite, and performed better with the setting the manual described as "off" so they assumed it was incorrect and that was actually the "on" setting. I don't think FTP did a very good job of clarifying it as I recall so everyone was left wondering which setting was what. Of course I don't doubt Tom Dankowski, he's one of the most knowledgeable folks I've ever met when it comes to deep dive detector testing, but I've also learned that inert Florida soil is similar to me taking a WiFi device into a RF chamber (large Faraday cage basically) to test radio performance in an optimal RF environment. Put differently, those tests didn't translate well into real world west coast dirt results.
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I had a T2 LTD w/DST for a while, and to be honest it was probably a better detector than the F75 for my type of hunting (relic sites mainly) but I was so heavily invested in my F75 (tons of coils) I ended up selling the T2 and keeping the F75 as I felt they were so similar, that it was redundant to have both. It was pretty quite with DST.
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The F75 was the "hot" detector for years. I swung a F75LTD (later upgraded to LTD2 w/DST) for the better part of ten years. It was definitely a noisy detector, and EMI could be pretty bad on it. After upgrading it to the LTD2 (they had an upgrade program) it was a fair bit more quite. I don't know that I would agree that the detector lost performance, that wasn't my experience. I recall digging a bust half dollar at 10" deep at a small site that we'd all pounded to death after the LTD2 upgrade. Personally I think DST technology is a good direction as long as you have the ability to disable it if need be.
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I'm confident that the Iron Bias update and subsequent setting of Iron bias to F2-0 resulted in me finding a rare date U.S. $1 gold coin at a site we've been hunting for ten years and for sure over that exact little swath of ground multiple times with multiple metal detectors. That little area has been highly rewarding not only in rare low mintage silver (and now gold) coins, but also a killer assortment of relics from the 1700's to c.1900, doesn't get much better that that where I live.
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Nokta did the Salt Sensitivity setting like that in the Legend, which I'd consider an advanced user setting. Go to the Recovery setting, push the PinPoint button and it goes into the setting, adjustable from 1-5. I'm sure the Iron Bias control will be similarly accessible to advanced users wanting the most out of the detector, or that may have adverse conditions the default modes would do better at if adjusted to meet whatever challenges one faces. So while there was some kicking and screaming involved from a multitude of angles, the good news is that it is getting implemented. Not only that, but far quicker then it took Minelab to improve/fix their Iron Bias settings update (which I applaud them for!).
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First Silver With The Deus 2!
Cal_Cobra replied to NCtoad's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
Great hunt!! On the D2, are observation on anything it's doing that is new/improved/different than you other machines? -
Slim Pickin's But Still Fun (relics)
Cal_Cobra replied to F350Platinum's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
Agreed, Is that a a watch winder in the bottom right? -
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Cal_Cobra replied to Tom_in_CA's topic in Metal Detecting For Jewelry
It's actually VERY easy to do. Spend ten minutes a day less on all the detecting forums and you can be a FB group admin expert in a week!! For a small fee, I can show you how to set it up the next time I see you....it'll only cost you one gold coin, hey you have 16, it's not like you're going to miss ONE 😂 -
It's certainly possible to implement a spectrum analyzer into a detector circuit, with real-time air space analysis and automate channel selection based on the cleanest channels available. I'm not really sure what kind of intelligence is built into the manual noise cancel on say the Equinox and Legend, but I'd assume some rudimentary spectrum analysis.
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Got Out There, Got A Ring
Cal_Cobra replied to F350Platinum's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
Nice digs, I like the button!! If you dip a Q-tips in lemon juice and clean the button with it, it may well clean up very nicely with more gold gilt than may be obvious.- 17 replies
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Cal_Cobra replied to Tom_in_CA's topic in Metal Detecting For Jewelry
The hat with an orange construction safety vest, and nobodies going to bother you 🤠 -
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Cal_Cobra replied to Tom_in_CA's topic in Metal Detecting For Jewelry
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Nice digs there, you're slaying the silver!
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New Garrett Price Increases Next Week
Cal_Cobra replied to johnnytuinals's topic in Garrett Metal Detectors
Same issue[s] we're experiencing, although we're starting to see things ease up a little bit. I know the folks in charge of sourcing parts have been earning their keep lately. One of our competitors raised their prices three times over the past year an average of 8% each increase (that's almost 30% compounded). With the demand we're seeing, we cannot ship product fast enough. We need that new $100B Intel manufacturing plant like yesterday. -
Great question as I am also going to do one, and this is what I found and it's noted under the warning message section on page 27 in their manual: System Error (SE) Turn the device back on if the device shuts down after this warning. If the problem persists, reset the device by pressing and holding the Power & Settings Button for 30 seconds. If the problem still exists, contact technical service.
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Paystreak Legend Video Initial Tests
Cal_Cobra replied to Jeff McClendon's topic in Nokta / Makro Legend Forum
Hmm...please do tell, inquiring minds want to know 😂 -
Paystreak Legend Video Initial Tests
Cal_Cobra replied to Jeff McClendon's topic in Nokta / Makro Legend Forum
That sounds like some dirt that we have out west, probably full 4-5 bar F75 mineralization meter dirt. TomCA and I have one site in the desert that has such heavy alkali soil that the Impact couldn't ground balance in auto, had to do a manual GB and even then it was in the teens. It's an odd site, one side of the creek is fine, the other super heavy alkali soil. I like Jeremy's videos (I want some of whatever he's on, the guys like a detecting robot!!), just want folks to know that his soil is a bit unique, but if a machine excels in his soil then it should translate into good overall performance everywhere else. When I was new to detecting I followed an advanced detectorists in Florida, and although his data is accurate I learned the hard way that what works great in his inert Florida soil doesn't translate to working well in the mineralized soils out west, so I always try to hone in on users that are hunting the same kind of dirt and types of sites that we like to detect, and that has panned out pretty well (that was how I learned of the original Makro Racer from Monte, and he was spot on).