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I made the probe for myself after realizing some foreseen issues with a folding version. First couple I made I used a high carbon steel and only made 3. I liked the design and it worked pretty well and thought it might be something others can use. Sent one of the 3 out for testing and another I did some stress testing and found the carbon steel was too brittle for what I wanted it for. Revised the disign a little bit from the testers feedback and changed over to an alloy steel that is impact resistant and tough. Made 4 of those kept one and sent the other 3 out for more testing. Bob was kind enough to be a guinee pig for me and give good feedback on how it works. Other testers were really happy as well.

I am getting requests for other versions or custom versions and looking at easier ways to cut the blades. Looking at a crevasse tool for divers and straight blade version.

All these including my regular diggers are done in small quantities as I am a one man band without a kazoo making these.

I really like that leather holster Bob found. Looks good.

Thanks,

Ken

Sounds normal. When I run my Multi Kruzer and have tracking on in the beach all the modes except beach mode will push the gb into the 90's which is wrong for the beach. Manual ground balancing where I use the left and right arrows and adjust I can bring the gb so it can run in any mode on all of the beach from the surf to dry sand and just adjust as I go.

Tracking in general can just drop off and have seen it in the  30's often when it should be in 80-90's but does correct itself. I typically only use tracking when water hunting in fresh water to save trying to bob the coil in the water.

Beaches here are almost impossible to get parking and that runs $5 an hour... Got to hit the towel lines where people shake off their goodies fussing with the umbrellas and towels.

Relic hunting the AT Max, Pro and even the Apex do pretty good. They are good on iron targets. I tend to hunt non iron targets and usually do my break on an old iron nail so on The AT's and Apex is around 32-33. On the Kruzers and Anfibio normalized scale it is 4.

Wonder if it drops off with tracking on? Tracking should correct the gb if the machine was accidentily gb over or near a target.

Kinda eyed that machine for towel lines and cuts on the beaches. Might do ok on the cuts and be killer on towel lines for small stuff.

I think it's heavier than the Kruzers.

5 hours ago, DSMITH said:

I had the 11 inch coil on the Legend and the Simplex plus the AT PRO was the stock coil which is a little smaller then the Legend and the simplex

AT Pro even with the stock coil tends to run the GB bit high. I always dropped 5 points and did little better on depth. In general the smaller narrower  coils handle minerals better, smaller transmit field and less depth. In tougher grounds going bigger on coils can be really counter productive.

Been waiting for Nokta to release the 5x91/2 for the Legend. If it is anything like it is on the Kruzers and Anfibio it will be one excellent coil. Pretty much what I use for jewelry hunting and do well with it.

Coils of similar size will have similar gb. I do see a higher gb number on the Nel Big and much lower on the 5x9 1/2. None of my machines will drift off in gb except the Kruzer with tracking on in some conditions. Quick gb usually resolves it and puts the machine back on track.

In your case it isn't the initial number but rather the machine is drifting off. If it only started under the update then it is a software issue.

Your best bet is to give Nokta a hollar and they should resolve it.

Ahh.

Does a factory reset fix it even temporarily? Definitely contact Nokta on that.

I had thought it was a drift issue with tracking. 

If your comparing the gb range to other machines or even with other coils those gb numbers can vary.

As an example larger wider coils or concentrics can read more ground mineralization and will have a different number than a narrow or small coil.

Stock dd and super fly on the Multi kruzer often have gb 10 points higher than the 5x9.5 because the smaller coil handles mineralization better and doesn't go as deep.

Big question is does the machine false on you? If you gb it and it falses then there might be something wrong with gb.

Sounds like your ground is similar to what we have here. Can you turn off tracking?

Looks promising, he is swinging the machine with one hand!

Can you run it with tracking off? In mild ground I have noticed that on my Multi Kruzer the gb can start to drift low.

Most of the time you really don't need tracking.

Gold Kruzer is something to consider and menu system is very easy to follow. No digging through menus.

Bet one of those wheel around shop magnets work pretty good on that one. Very cool.

This is what happens when the bean counters get involved in products and push for max profits. Unfortunately many other companies in the component food chain get caught up with bad parts. As for design flaws, the testers should be the ones discovering the issues so the company can fix before it hits the public.

No excuse for dumping garbage on the market.

Wow very nice. Bet the setttler dropped it while kissing the dirt after a long miserable ocean ride :)

Now if they could only combine the best features for all that effort they put in lol..

Usually can find earrings and small stuff but the id's should be really low in the foil range. That coil should hit them good.

Wouldn't hurt to remove the cover for water hunting.

Usually end up running my forge when it's hot out, almost always get just a slight breeze to blast the hot air in my direction 😞

Temps like that most will be passed out from heat stroke :0

Guess it's called cybersquatting and actually illegal.

Went over to see if Bart had any Gold Racers laying around and typed in bigboyshobbies.com instead of .net and brought me to kellyco 😞

Just a heads up for those looking for machines and equipent. Thought it was a little sleezy but maybe I'm old fashioned.

Probably not enough power out of the comupeters usb to charge it. Get one of the wall adapter, that's what I use on all my detectors.

Name might be different depending on what your drinking :)