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OK, here is a sound analysis of an air test of a nickel and a square tab (the blue screen at the lower part of the image).  Both were swiped at the same speed and same distance from the coil. You tell me which is which. Not trying to argue here, just demonstrating.

Also watch (and listen) to this:  Same soil as mine. Just talking about sound here, not VDI jumping.

Well you're right about the Deus. Maybe I'll get it figured out soon. Good advice.

First let me say that I do not hunt salt water or in mineralized ground, I hunt in fairly non-mineralized trashy parks. Second I only have a total of 12.75 hours on my 800. I also have been detecting for 15 years and I know a little about adjusting a detector.

In my sites I find the 800 to almost be a dig everything machine, easily matched by most any other mid level machine. In a park infested with aluminum trash it is (so far) impossible to separate trash from targets that have similar low to mid range VDI numbers - the VDI resolution of the 800 is just not fine enough and the tone "voice" does not return enough nuance. I have tried about every variation of settings and detecting technique the machine and I are capable of. With my other two high level machines separation can be done frequently (not always) either by VDI or tone quality but of course I paid  for that ability with purchase price. I will say that when set up properly the 800 is a deep machine rivaling my CTX in my mild soil.

However, I have begun experimenting with Gold 1 and there just might be a solution there.

But as everyone knows, the 600/800 machines have other advantages. I'm just not located in a place where I can take advantage of them.

Be ready for 2" of powder dust on the way in. Can also get pretty windy.

Either a PI or water machine?

On 2/26/2018 at 8:52 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

If you mean pieces of lead metal then you are doing it right. Gold and lead read the same.

http://www.fisherlab.com/hobby/manuals/goldstrikeopmanual_000.pdf

LOL. Unfortunately that includes bullets. I certainly did my share of making Arizona lead free by detecting them. 

4 minutes ago, Ridge Runner said:

Jim

I knew that 16.8 was ok but didn’t know it could go as high 18 V. I thank you for informing me of that, I was thinking you may see a puff of smoke coming out of your detector.

I’ll give it a try and run some test with it.

Thanks again!

Chuck

Once in a while you have to let the smoke out or it clogs things up. 

It's the same answer that has applied to 95% of Eq comments since last Sept.  "We'll just have to wait and see." 

Direct comparisons with another machine on the same undug targets. Include settings.

2 or 3 threads here make me think that Minelab must have hired some new marketing folks over the last year. They seem much more aggressive. Maybe I'm thinking that just because of all the accompanying hype by potential owners tho.

2 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Performance Is Everything.

Yeah, that's what she said.

Nice video though.

GUYS !!!.......it's a joke........a run of the mill Kennedy Half near to a breath MINT.

(But your nice comments are appreciated)

(And I think maybe you all need a vacation.......LOL).

About a half inch I'd say.    

2 hours ago, Johnnysalami1957 said:

Well I just spent 1500.00 on a Deus WS5 and another 400.00 on a high frequency coil in June . So why not piss away another 800.00. I mean you can't take it with you anyway. And it gives my wife more to Bi*ch at me about.

I ain't never seen a U-Haul behind a hearse.

I'd be interested in how deep those pickers were. Very interested.

Reasoning?  I don't need no stinking reasoning!  

Oh, and the Multi IQ. I need all the IQ I can get.

On 2/4/2018 at 8:30 AM, Chase Goldman said:

The manual is bound to have some confusing sections (to some readers or to many readers, depending on the example) because it is a complex gadget and some concepts that are simple in practice when you have the detector right out in front of you are hard to grasp just off the written page without anything to visualize.  I guarantee you there are probably a thousand lurkers on this forum that had the same or a similar question.  You were just brave enough to ask it.  I know they are all thanking you for taking the bullet, but they learned something just like you did.  So keep asking...

I'm sure some think I deserve the bullet and would have gladly delivered it, but your comments help, thank you.

Right now the only thing I can't do with it is USE IT !!!  But I'm pretty sure I will survive until it gets here. If Steve is excited about it then I'm nearly apoplectic.

57 minutes ago, scoopjohnb said:

Should have a Noxy in my hands by the end of next week,... that will clarify a few things.

That will definitely make a big difference for all of us. Big - really big - as in....... big.

I think normally a time delay is built-in to gb tracking so that targets are not immediately taken as ground changes and blanked out. If it reacted immediately you might never hear a target. With the Deus I believe the delay is about 7 seconds if I remember right.

Yeah, it's pretty strange, thanks to my brain flatulence.

I just thought I saw something in the last line of the paragraph I referred to that conflicted with other custom program info in the manual. If you don't see it then I'm satisfied that I'm just seeing something that isn't there.

Thank you for your concern and responses.

That's an answer. Thank you.

Read the last paragraph on page 33, as I have so no need to repeat, and tell me if that modifies your opinion.