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Yup, I got my Tony Eisenhower waterproof headphones before any of the others were even available. Still using them!

How did I not get on your battery list? I must have been sleeping and not seen when you had them available. I was hoping to get one from my first hunt on! 

All well and good in a test garden. Real life, where the targets are a different depths and orientations are another matter. Add various degrees of corrosion and non-ferrous trash, and that I.D. averaging is going to be a problem.....not unlike some other machines. The quick processor will help however, as would a small coil.

You still have the 20 and 40 khz working for you in multi, just not as a stand alone single frequency.

I normally run Park 1(all metal, 50 tone, IB F2@5) in the dry sand and only change to Beach 2 when I hit the wet sand. In the original software version, I would start to get chatter as soon as I hit damp sand. Next version, I could sometimes make it all the way to the really wet sand. Now, with the latest version, I can sometimes search in wet sand in Park 1 without issue or a change in sensitivity (usually 20). In the saltwater, it's still Beach 2 however. I'll have to try Field 2 and see what it's like with the latest software.

If there's a VDI you don't want to see or hear, hit the accept/reject button in the upper right of the keypad. Not something I recommend in most cases. There's gold or silver at just about every number. I realize that some sites might be paved with a particular trash target that you want to avoid though......

If I had a relative that showed some interest, I'd give the items to them. Otherwise, historical items to a museum, if they wanted them. Most of the time, unless it's a fantastic find, they won't want them, as,  they have drawers of good stuff they don't even display. More common items that are too good to throw away I'd take to a swap meet and sell them. People will buy anything if the price is right. Donate whatever doesn't sell to charity and take the tax writeoff.

I've used the F2 setting pegged at 9 quite a bit and haven't seen any down side to doing it......yet anyway. I'm still getting tiny foil non-ferrous readings of 1 in modes Park 1 and 2; Field 2, and Beach 1 and 2. I'll try to remember to experiment with Field 1 (which I almost never use) and the Gold modes. My only concern might be what effect it would have at depth.....or maybe in depth would be a better term. In using F2 @9 I don't "feel" it's detrimental, but, maybe it is and I haven't noticed it.

On 9/2/2020 at 7:50 PM, ALEXANDRE TARTAR said:

This is very good news, I never thought I would tell you that ...

Indeed the detector is so sensitive that it can detect its own cable shielding ... The sensitivity cable area is near the coil...

I use plastic clips, we will make some for the rest of the Impulse series.

There is only Terry left now...

Not quite. I'll try re-wrapping my coil wire so that it runs straight up the shaft. Maybe that will help my instability problem. My symptoms are the same as Deborah's. It doesn't matter which settings I used, it chatted so much you had a hard time telling what was a signal and what was just a false.

Doesn't look like anything I'd want to spend money on either. I wonder what the sound and target I.D. would be like without running it in all metal. I agree the sounds it makes would grate on my ears.

I use the peel and stick anti-slip strips for a bathtub on my handles. Real easy to replace or add new ones when needed.

20 hours ago, Tony said:

Ahhh...Barracuda......if only I had the money for one 20 years ago 😩

I have 3 of them........cars that is! 😄

I always thought that the current most common coil/clevis design should be reversed. Beefed up and reversed to be exact. The coil itself should not be the part with "ears". Make the coil with a solid hub a couple inches wide. Have the ears on the clevis. Have the clevis replaceable on the shaft and supply an extra one with each detector purchase. The new Fisher Impulse AQ has this type of clevis, although they still use ears on the coil. A better design, since there is a bolt/nut on each side and not just one pinching both sides toward the middle, so, no side strain. It still has fairly thin ears on both parts, but, so far, no issues with mine. 

17 minutes ago, Ridge Runner said:

Anytime out detecting day are night and something tells you that this guy could put you in harms way. I don’t care if he is carrying a detector it may be best you just say I got to go and walk off .

 Nobody likes my butt better than I do and I’ll do whatever it takes to keep it safe .

 I know like one said it piss me off and I been there many times.

 Think about this Would it be best to be piss off above ground are below ground where he put you .

 Chuck 

Or, as my father used to say, "it's better to be pissed off, than pissed on"

Claim jumpers used to bother me a lot. Now, they just bother me a little. Nothing worse than someone jumping right in front of you and getting a good target, but, I've also found some great targets BECAUSE someone did that. One time in particular sticks out in my mind. A local TOTAL A-hole that everyone I know hates, pulled that on me one day. He thinks the beach belongs to him and makes a point to interfere with your plans. I decided to not let him get my goat, so, I turned in another direction than I had planned. I went about 20 feet and found 2 nice gold rings. Now, I just figure if I was meant to find it, I will. The beaches here are huge with plenty of sand for everyone, even if it isn't the sand you planned on searching.

Mine doesn't seem to react in the coil pinch test, but, I may have to repeat the test at another location. I have had quite a bit of EMI around my yard at various times, so, my recent tests there are suspect. I went in my back yard and away from anything metal to do the test. Turned on the machine, all metal, sensitivity maxed out, held the coil up horizontal at chest height, and all it did was squawk. A lower pulsating tone was constant, and if I swung the coil in any direction, it was like I ran over a huge piece of metal. Like I said, I'll try it at another location that I know to be free of EMI and any nearby metal and report back. In my surf hunts, it's pretty noisy in moving salt water. Each wave gives a siren sound regardless of settings. Turning things down helps, but, doesn't eliminate the falsing completely.

If you already have an Impulse AQ, don't you already have those measurements? 

I have both the 720 and 920 Stealth scoops. If you work in areas with rocks and clay, eventually you're going to cave in the bottom. I've done it several times and had to straighten them out. Same problem with other stainless scoops I've had. The way I cured that problem was to add a reinforcement plate to the bottom of the 720. Now there's no way it will cave in. It made the scoop a bit heavier, but, I don't have to worry digging in rocks anymore. I haven't gotten one of the titanium scoops that Xtreme makes yet. I would be interested to see how they hold up to that kind of punishment.

I've had good luck with the Tony Eisenhower headphones I've had him make for me. Good quality speakers and plenty loud.

I have a set made by my buddy Tony Eisenhower. I've had no problem with them being loud enough. 

I don't find them any harder to find than any other chunk of lead. I run in multi and "all metal", usually Park 1, sometimes Field 2. Other settings will depend on the site and personal preference.

The surf will definitely "talk" to you with the AQ. It doesn't sound like a target, more like a siren, so, not a big issue with me. My problem with the AQ is manifold, but, the salinity reaction is nothing much different than other surf machines I've used. I went out with it last night (actually 2am this morning) to hit the minus tide. Hunted a popular area from high slope to thigh deep in moderate surf. Still not finding any good deep targets that my other machines wouldn't find, and without the annoyance of a PI. machine. Deep iron? Sure, it's great for that, but, who cares? I pulled the battery off the charger as I walked out the door. Got 2 hours and 45 minutes on it before it went dead. Just pitiful. I guess I'm still not a PI guy, at least not an AQ guy. This is about the 5th PI machine I've tried, and don't find it any better overall than the others. Too much work and not enough fun.

6 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

I tend to hunt just like Steve suggested. When I am at a park or athletic field I usually use one of the Park or Field modes based on trash levels and target spacing. I can often get distracted by or start to zero in on the higher tones (clad dimes and quarters in the US or silver) and sometimes walk over the far more numerous iffy sounding low to mid conductor tones, which is not good when I am specifically looking for gold jewelry. At some parks and playing fields here most of the quality targets are fairly deep unless they were recently dropped. So if my will power to dig pull tabs/canslaw is weakening I notch out everything from 22 up to 40 and from 0 to 7 and just dig everything I can between 8 and 22.

Just for fun, has anyone here found any gold jewelry that has come in at 15 or 16? So far, I haven't. I have found rings and other gold items at every other target ID number between 8 and 22. Unlike some, I ignore the little stuff for the most part in the 4 to 7 range since used diamonds are not that easy to sell and small gold earrings have very little melt value. I have said this before and others have too: most of the gold rings, pendants, broaches etc, that I have found have locked onto one single target ID number and tone (in 50 tones) and not wavered. There have been a few times when I got two numbers that were close together and the odd time when platinum, palladium or silver mixed with gold made for quite a number/tone spread. Gold chains can do that too.

I often read and hear some Equinox 800 users express the possibility that the Gold modes should be better for finding gold jewelry. Is it because they are called the Gold modes??????? In an aluminum trash filled park, at a saltwater beach or in some highly mineralized locations with streams and lakes, I would go absolutely nuts if I used one of the gold modes. Hunting in one tone for gold jewelry is not my idea of a pleasant experience while also digging every flyspeck piece of metal in the first 3" of the ground. The Gold modes are hyper sensitive and have their uses. Hunting in extremely high levels of non-ferrous trash is not one of them in my opinion. They are possible for micro gold jewelry in the right circumstances like bark, gravel or sand tot lots/playgrounds. But I think they were especially intended for small gold nugget/picker prospecting and relic hunting in sparser target environments.

A couple of weeks ago, I found an 18K Cartier gold band that read dead on 16. I've found many gold items in all areas from 2 to 25. At the beach, I scoop everything non-ferrous.......and even a few ferrous sounds on occasion. Parks are a different animal in my book. To me it's just not worth the effort to find tiny gold in a modern park. Larger gold reading 10 and up,, sure, as long as the signal doesn't jump around. Gold is usually very stable in I.D. numbers. Even then, some parks I just dig "sex sounds"......screamers and groaners. That would be 12 and 13, and 22-up on my machine. I'll also dig a few others if they sound good enough regardless of number.

16 hours ago, cjc said:

Hope they got his good side--guess they ran out of bearded guys.  

I had really hoped that 4kHz would be in the multi mix hence the stability gains by way of balance in the higher weighted modes ie P2.   Jury still out would like to hear from some salt water hunters on this. Never liked how the big coil performed in salt--same with the CTX's even bigger processor.  cjc 

I use the 12X15" coil almost exclusively at the beach....both in the water, wet sand, and dry sand. I love it! Still very sensitive to tiny targets, very stable using the proper mode and settings, and great for ground coverage. The only thing I've found that goes deeper (and only by a slim margin) is the Excalibur with the 15" round coil (both WOT and NEL Attack) The Excal will miss small targets, however, in comparison to the Nox.

I wonder if substituting 4khz (or even 3khz) in place of the 5khz in multi would be beneficial. Does that leave some sort of khz gap making it undesirable? How far can you stretch a khz gap before it starts to "break down" the advantage of multi? If too many frequencies dilute the signal too much, then fewer frequencies should be better, right? Why wouldn't a 3khz, 20khz, and a 60khz combo not be better? Too big a span between them? Sorry, I'm not an electronics engineer, just a button pusher! 😁