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Thanks for the info!. I just ordered one.

On 1/31/2024 at 2:30 AM, Daniel Tn said:

I guess I will be calling them today.  Manticore headphones, new out of the box, won't charge or turn on. Completely DOA.

Mine stopped working too after a few hunts. I called and they had me send the phone in and they replaced them with a new pair.

Check your spam. I found their reply there.

My guess they are working on a software update and it would need to be tweeked for the 8 and 15" coils. What works as for a 11 inch may not work for the other sizes. One major software release and then the hardware will follow not to far behind.

I was once told that the dealers and stores don't have the actual inventory and these early units are being shipped from the Minelab warehouses until the backorders are fulfilled.

On my beaches in Long Island Sound the D2 is definitely deeper than the Nox on wet sand. I've gotten 7 gold rings using the 11" coil and one gold chain. My D2 is now paid for based upon melt value (I did this in less than 2 months). These two months were one of my best months back-to-back I every had AND I did not hunt as often as I use to.  Of those rings, 5 IMO were out of range of the Nox's 11" coil. I did not do side by side comparisons but I have score over 60 gold rings with the Nox so I know where my limits are on the Nox on my beaches.  Also I want to say, I've dug my deepest penny, dime, nickel and quarter, and silver coins in the wet sand compared to the Nox and at times nearly as deep as my AQ.

In the water, I am very skeptical. I don't have enough time to come to a conclusion. Dive mode doesn't seem as deep and Beach mode is chatty. As the water warms this summer I'll have a better feel.

Great video OBN!

17 hours ago, midalake said:

 

Did either machine TID at that 14" depth, or was this an " it could be heard" at that depth? 

So far I have dug 4 gold rings. Two of the rings initially did not give a VDI. My guess they were 13+ inches. One ring was 1.4 gram and the other was 2.4.

Here is my 82 VDI ring.  13.6 grams 10k.

11 hours ago, bklein said:

Where do we get these orange o-rings? Mine is missing the outer one shown in the photo.

Another thing is the coil attach screws. I went to take the detector out of my car and one fell off. I found it but it got me thinking I need to get spares or devise a way that it for sure doesn’t come apart.

(thanks for the tips on the receptacle- mine’s good now)

Mine was also missing. I don't think I ever saw an orange oring.

I had contacted Fisher regarding a battery that would not hold a charge for the AQ.

Within a day the supplied a RMA and a label to return the battery. But best of all, they had sent a new battery almost immediately.

Their support for this issue was quick and responsive. Go Fisher!

Nice haul! Congrats on the great hunt.  

Here are some of my whispers from the other day.

It is the antenna connecting the wireless coil to the control box. Basically, if the coil is under water it cannot broadcast the signal from the coil to the headphones or to the control box. 

I concur on your testing and conclusion.

I flip modes but nearly every time I have to adjust the frequency delay by 2 notches or so up or down.

In the water, the MDT worked pretty good for me and I would say it was deeper than the Nox. I prefer to run the Excal in pinpoint mode for depth or the Nox for the shallower stuff.

Out of the water and over wet sand, the Tarsacci was difficult to use. I was able to get it quiet for one part of the beach and then I had to make adjustment to the point where the Nox was deeper. Some beaches it ran just fine and others it took adjustments. With the Nox I do not have make any adjustment except for the sensitivity. I can run it at 23/24 and drop it to 20/21 and my issues go away.

I am in Long Island Sound so there are not big waves and there the beaches can have lots of iron and mineralize sand and black sand.

48 minutes ago, tvr said:

So here are some of my thoughts on what "useful discrimination" is related to the AQ LTD:

Back when I got a CZ20 to start getting serious about finding gold at beaches, it was tuned so that nickels were mid-tone. I could choose to detect and dig only the mid-tones with the theory that doing so could maximize return on effort at the beach by only digging the range where most of the gold was. Thinking back on that recently, I was inspired learn what I could with the AQ LTD with respect to useful discrimination.

 

I've been hunting nearly all in all metal mode with the AQ LTD. Shortly after I got the AQ LTD I took a trip to one beach specifically to see how the AQ handled a beach filled with hot rocks and learn a little bit on how I could handle them using its discrimination capabilities. I had not done much with discrimination since then until the last two weeks. Had a long trip to a wide open beach and I figured it was time to really learn the discrimination capabilities. One thing I previously figured out is that it is difficult to get rid of hair pins on any setting; I still found that to be true, yet they do give that classic double beep that makes them easy to walk away from. I decided to pick a couple of targets and set up to hear the tone shift in tone mode that would tell me to walk away from those targets that otherwise do not give a lot of clues.

 

The problem targets I picked to set up with were some small screws that I had dug while thinking they were going to be good targets, but were not. Setting up to identify those screws as "no dig" in tone mode had me at Reject = 7; ATS just shy of 9. I spent a few days tweaking the settings but staying pretty close to those; ending up with Reject 7 and ATS just a hair above 8. If I chose to just dig the sweet high tones and none of the warbles or grunting sounds then about the only iron I was digging was the occasional hair pin and a couple of round washers. The hairpins were still walk-away signals because of the clear double beep. I was not digging tent stakes. I also wasn't digging pennies, dimes, quarters, lead sinkers or soda beer cans! I dug most targets for nearly a week to see what the audio was like. With those settings, zinc pennies, small fishing sinkers and most of the tent pegs were a warbling mid-tone, copper pennies, big sinkers, dimes, quarters, soda and beer cans and the rest of the tent pegs were low tone grunting. The biggest problem target remained bottle caps. I’m not doing well identifying them for what they are.

 

After the last couple weeks I think I'm pretty confident that the AQ LTD does have useful discrimination and that if I want to just focus on the most likely gold range and not dig coins, cans, sinkers, tent pegs or .50 caliber shells; I can do that. There is a chance I will not dig that huge monstrous gold ring when set like I'm set, but the focus will be squarely on looking for the majority of gold jewelry and not digging otherwise. In the middle of fresh drop season, I think it could be a productive way to go!

 

I have also experimented with it and do use it based upon how deep I want to dig. My findings are just like what you posted.

You have some nice finds there!

How slow were you going? If I used those settings it would false a lot but a break through target sounds would definitely be distinguishable from the noise. Any other adjustments done?

Congrats on the awesome hunts.

Great month. I love your finds!

46 minutes ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

Carolina and I got our 2,........😲

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also got 2. One for use in CT and one for use in FL.

Nice oldie. Congrats

I like it!

great job. I can't wait to get back to detecting after taking a few weeks off.

Sweet looking finds there

18 hours ago, stateguy said:

what number are they up too

iwas supposedly on the list like 50ish

i have not herd a thing

my friend was 26 I believe and brought it from Rick a while back and he also received a email not long ago from FT asking if he interested in buying a machine

i also see some people where able to buy two machine (weather that’s what they ordered or it’s politics)

are they going to give everyone an opportunity to buy one that put there name on a list. They should

My second machine was purchased used from Steve.