bklein

Hi Steve, in your post regarding using your AQ for prospecting you got frustrated and didn’t try Volcanic mode. Did you later or just box the AQ up and sell it? Do all detectors favor a ring vs a nugget or in my case nuggets of similar or higher weight?

No replies so I’ll add some content… I tried the AQ with my bucket of “black sand” from upper Newport. It detects my gold ring no problem, really strong with the Bigfoot coil and any run mode. The volcanic mode seems worse depth of all. Then I tried some gold nuggets I had found at a Havasu Goldseekers dig. It only sees them if they are on the surface. No superior mode here either - just doesn’t work. Here’s a photo of the gold and my bucket. All of this seems to contradict what Alexandre was suggesting in his comments here. I wonder if they just gave up on volcanic mode and focused on the others.

Just curious if anyone has been using the Volcanic mode on the AQ. To even have it had to be worth it to someone…

I do. On my right shoulder with earbuds. Haven’t tried a real long hunt yet though.

Used to be if you found coins in the surf that’s where the gold is. Now no coins in the surf (with any detector).

What is it that is masking out some coins? Do you guys have a setup that seems to eliminate the problem - maybe at the cost of some other behavior? I’ve never spent time on looking at this. I just know it happens and the design team thinks it’s a normal consequence of trying to have a gold sweet spot that no other detector has (???).

Have a link? eBay is just saying one AQ sold, by serious detecting, $1999.