KENNE-BILL

I'm confused why Dimitar would tell you the warranty is not transferable? Here is a copy and paste from the warranty policy for the Tarsacci - The limited warranty will be considered void/invalid if the product was not properly registered to Tarsacci. This warranty is extended to the purchaser identified in the Product Registration Form (“Purchaser”) and is transferable.

From reading this thread it sounds like Tarasacci is about to fold its business, where are you all getting your info from?

Went out for a few hours with the Tarsacci on the last day of year, yellow ring is a junker and the other two one of which is a class ring are 10k. After doing some probing around on the web I have a lead on the owner of the class ring and will try and make contact tomorrow for a return. Update: The ring is back home with it's owner, from the water in Waikiki to Massachusetts.

Glad to hear that Joe is on the mend.

Hi Joe, please put me on your list for a big battery. My two batteries currently have a run time of 2 hours 40 minutes and 3 hours on each battery, run strictly in all metal mode. Thanks.

Yes a casing but not sure of size as I'm not familiar with ammo, I was on the North Shore of Oahu for this hunt.

I hunted a new (too me) spot yesterday for a couple of hours from ankle to chest deep water, settings were all metal mode, delay 10, sensitivity 8, and ATS 5. The detector ran well with some chatter but nothing overwhelming and similar to my TDI BH, it's probably a given as with other detectors that I find how the AQ runs differs from beach to beach and can sometimes be run hotter or has to be turned down. Anyways near the end of my hunt is when I found the gold ring, it took a few scoops to retrieve it and I would guess it was in the 10" range, at first glance I thought it was a junk or gold plated ring being that it is tarnished on the inside. After getting back home and assuming the ring was junk I didn't bother to look at it until later in the evening and upon inspection could see a 14k stamp inside the ring, I then tested with my GXL-24 Pro gold tester and it displayed 14k, this tester does distinguish between gold and gold plated/filled items. I've never found a gold ring that looks good on the outside but tarnished on the inside like this before, any thoughts or comments? BTW the ring is 7.0 grams, also can't seem to edit title to show AQ instead of Aq.

I had the sensitivity at the preset mark 4, I suppose setting it lower could help reduce falsing but 4 is already somewhat in the lower range approaching 0. Yes the rings had a strong response, the Titanium ring I believe was a fresh drop and no more than a few inches deep.

I received my AQ 1-1/2 weeks ago and have been out with it twice so far, my first hunt was last week Sunday for a combined 5.5 hours between 2 batteries (I purchased an extra battery). I hunted at a beach where I detected the previous weekend with my TDI BH so didn't expect much as far as finds but just wanted to get a feel for the new detector, I hunted in the water from shoreline to chest deep with the AQ in all metal mode and presets on the rest of the knobs except for the pulse delay which I tried out from 7 - 11.5. Running with the pulse delay at 7 was a bit noisy especially when swinging the coil away from the shoreline into deeper water but was actually quite stable with minimal falsing on the return swing toward shore, increasing the pulse delay resulted in as expected less falsing/chatter, I ended up at 10 microseconds. I was able to find a bit of change, fishing lead, tent spikes and a stainless steel ring I estimate was dug in the 10" range. My second hunt was yesterday in Waikiki in the bigger of the 2 ponds for those familiar with Waikiki, again strictly in the water and in all metal mode but was able to run the pulse delay at the marked preset 8 with minimal falsing, found some change, pull tabs and a titanium ring. My battery lasted 2 hours 40 minutes which was 10 minutes longer than its first run last weekend, I opted not to swap batteries to hunt longer as the tide was really coming up and ended up calling it a day. As mentioned I also detect with a TDI BH and find the AQ to be very similar so far in performance and audio but again have only 8 hours of detecting time with the AQ water hunting, I have yet to try any dry/wet sand hunting and modes other than all metal. In the pic are the SS and titanium rings, hopefully some precious metals are right around the corner.:) Physical observations - The AQ seems well built quality wise and feels well balanced, I find it easy to swing in the water even with its 12" coil. I'm 6'1" tall and am okay so far with the stock rod length fully extended - I can see where hunting the wet/dry sand a longer rod would give a wider swath while hunting. Others have mentioned the arm strap being short, the strap that came with my AQ seems fine too me. I also secured the headphone cable to the top of the detector shaft with a small Velcro strap as a strain relief as suggested by OBN and others.