Sven1

I liked using some previous Quest detectors and had good luck with them.

I like the layout of the V80

Lobo was designed by Gillford.

Lobo ST was designed by Dave Johnson.

13 hours ago, hot_sopt said:

Hi Sven1

will these two Mods work on the V6 version machine, using the same parts.

thanks in advance.........👍

Yes, they will.

Nisaku is the top brand for stainless steel knives. 

I have had mine for 5 years now, thousands of holes plugs dug with it. Never needed sharpening. This year I bought a brand new one of the same model. The only thing I did was reshape the handle to fit more comfortably in my hand. 

And they make a mini green  version, these work so well when the ground is damp, might favorite. They do have a weakness, the blade after awhile breaks at the handle. The rule with these is not to use these little guys as prybars!!! These are sharp and remain sharp and will cut your hands like a razor knife.

If you switch to  wired headphones, you will hear the Threshold at 1 or 2 nicely.

Up the volume to max on the control box and adjust volume on the headphones if they have   volume control.

Using the cheap wired Calrads, detector audio is really nice.

Depending upon your computers hardware and software as well as the OS, it may take several updating attempts before your computers sees the Legend. It will generally take me 7 attempts before the updating process begins. Keep calm and take your time updating.

I did not notice any issues when bench testing the Legend with the 1.07 update. It works just fine.

Also, picked up a 6" coil, works excellent, very happy with the purchase.

That is going to be fixed in the next update.

Try using wired headphones, threshold works as it should.

Too many lazy people who don't read manuals.........seem to always have problems, tinker with settings and get into a big mess, get frustrated.....................................

1 hour ago, Rick N. MI said:

I guess that leaves those who like analog to find what available or look for older detectors.

Use what you like and what works for you as long as your having fun treasure hunting.

Just thinking about this, many might think this is a single purpose machine and they want a multi-purpose mode machine to do it all.  Just thinking--how much of the Gold Kruzer was built into the Legend Prospecting mode? I never had the Gold but, now have the Legend.

Again, Dilek shows you how far she will go to please customers!

It's all finished up now. Works excellent. Plus I had to replace the Zippy Lipo battery pack, original failed and swelled up.

Started switching out some of the other pots with RV5 precision pots for much finer adjustments and replacing the Silencer pot with a pot similar to what I used with Gain pot. 

You will do fine with current 2.78.

Myself and others like 2.77, because we like working the detecting into the noisy chattery zone. It's the fringe target depth area. basically your running the detector very hot, not suitable for many.

Read more here 

Thinned down my herd, it became easier every time one went to a new home. Down to two detectors now. A Blisstool V5 with the 7x9 coil. And my Mirage Pi that I built with three coil sizes. Both are fun to use. 

Now I wouldn't object if some company or individual wants to send me a detector......

It's not a wrap around.

The composition of Canadian clad make it hard for many detectors to decide if its junk or good.

Depending upon the year the composition was changed by the mint. Lots of the clad is now steel based with a chrome like plating. So the Id can bounce between numbers, maybe lock on to a particular number range. Or be seen as junk in the low iron range numbers. If the coin is on edge, will definitely be Id'd with a low iron range number.

If your digging clad up here, you have to set up your disc to a min. setting that the clad will be accepted when lying flat. You can't hunt the same way here as you would in the US, you'll go away with empty pockets.

 Canadian clad give most detectors troubles when in disc mode!!!  Also, your disc range has to go low enough to accept tiny nails and such to register the edge coins.

If you hunt in a true all metal mode, not an issue you'll pick them up.

Canadian Clad coin composition thru the years http://www.saskatooncoinclub.ca/articles/02a_coin_specs.html

I think you will enjoy it. I had one of the first production models here in Canada to test and really had fun with it. If you like smaller coils, you can't be without the round  5.7" and or the Super 6.

https://www.noktadetectors.com/nomads-team/

Siren Kimmie has excellent videos regarding the Nokta/Makro detectors, she's a Nomad https://www.youtube.com/c/SirenKimmie/videos

Nice looking coil and graphics.

7 hours ago, phrunt said:

I wonder how many countries you actually get more for less, its looking to be very similar priced to the Nox everywhere except the USA.

Even in the UK the price for the Nox 600 is 679 pounds with free wireless ML80 headphones.  I didn't look at multiple dealers as the first one I checked gave enough information.

https://www.crawfordsmd.com/minelab-equinox-600?search=equinox 600

The price guide for the Legend standard pack is surprise surprise 679 pounds.

It seems only the US gets the cheap pricing from my research so far, lucky buggers.... maybe it's the market they're chasing the most 🙂  In other countries dealers are going to have to put it on sale straight away to beat Nox pricing, and that's if dealers don't put the Nox's on sale too to combat it.

Think part of it is lack of tarrifs, or very low custom and duty fees due to foreign trade deals with those having favorable country status.  

2 hours ago, midalake said:

Just think of the price the used ones will be when the Equinox turns out to be better. 😁

And what if the reverse is true?

You just never know.  

22 minutes ago, phrunt said:

Set the R&D costs aside as they get them back over time with sales of this and future models the Legend will cost similar to what the Simplex does to actually build in construction costs, they're making good money on the Simplex so they're making a lot of money on the Legend.  You only have to look at the Chinese clones and how cheap they can sell them to see what the actual production costs of detectors are where they can make and ship a high end Fisher model knock off for $100, I'm simply talking construction costs of the detectors, they're very low.  Nokta being made in Turkey and Minelab being made in Malaysia where production costs are very low...   What do you think a GPX 6000 costs to actually make? Very little, in the hundreds.

It happens in a lot with various products, the higher the model is in specifications the more profit is made on it.   They put the Legend at a price they think gives it an edge, they could go a lot lower if they needed to and they'll do that with specials and promos in the future by throwing in coils or pinpointers and hats and other gear to try take more of the market share.

The fights on now and we are at the interesting part, the manufacturers have put it out there what they have, let's now see how they respond to each other.

The Chinese T2 knockoffs were costing them $30 each to produce. Orig. Quest wireless headphones from the Chinese manufacturer, found could buy the Transmitter and headphones for $12 per set. 

 S-handle mod. The Blisstool angle of the handle I felt was a bit too steep. Which tended to put my wrist in an awkward position. Didn't feel that comfy after awhile.

This is a quick mod. 

Bliss S-handle Mod Part 3.pdf