ALEXANDRE TARTAR

3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

However, I am still hoping for the original three piece S rod on the Impulse Gold model. 

Response is YES 

On 2/27/2021 at 2:38 PM, Chase Goldman said:

Open Letter to Alexandre and Fisher - That  statement, as a relic hunter who frequents hot dirt sites, makes me salivate at the prospect of what you could do with the Impulse design for terrestrial artifact hunting (mostly mid-conductors) and gold prospecting.  A huge and fiercely dedicated contingent in the US, perhaps several times more detectorists than the super-hard-core water/beach gold jewelry detectorists in Europe and the US that the Impulse AQ is presently targeted for.  You will see  several hundred detectorists in the fields at a single event applying their relic hunting skills at the several annual group hunt events.  90 percent are swinging GPX and lesser PI detectors because VLF induction balance detectors are practically worthless in those conditions.  Same goes for terrestrial gold detectorists.  If you remove the salt cancel constraint (or simply make it a switchable feature) and submersion constraint (to lower unit cost) and focus solely on mineralization and existing Impulse analog precision disc/target reject breakpoints scheme, using the Impulse form factor with light weatherproofing, you and Fisher could make a killing, especially amongst the relic detectorists with aging, unreliable GPX's (just had to send mine into the shop for an expensive repair) who were basically abandoned by ML with the forthcoming release of the GPX 6000 which is devoid of any ferrous rejection feature and steep cost (not a knock, just truth likely resulting from a conscious business decision while maintaining the objective of simplified use in 3rd world gold fields, I don't like it but I get it).  The gold prospectors, however, are ecstatic at the new lightweight and user friendly package with the promise of high mineral and EMI environment performance.

Relic detectorists presently put up with the GPX cost, lack of weather proof integrity, battery cable claptrap, and weight because they have to, not because they want to, as it is the only detector that checks all the boxes, especially in regard to an excellent ferrous rejection scheme.  Now that ML has shown its hand with the 6000, please don't squander the brief window of opportunity you will have to fill this void with an Impulse variant that doesn't need to be waterproof at depth in salt water, but simply needs to work without a harness in the pouring rain and in the high magnetite fields of history across the US.  Relic detectorists, of modest means, have already demonstrated their willingness to pay the same GPX-level prices for a capable, ferrous-rejecting terrestrial Impulse that have been rightfully or wrongfully attributed to the AQ in this thread.  Even if you could somehow simply modify the AQ enable switching off salt compensation to accommodate relic hunting in magnetite soils that woukd be something.  Hoepwever, if the terrestrial prospecting or relic Impulse takes another 2 years to rear it's head, ML will probably figure out a way to add iron rejection to the GPX 6000 via firmware update or release a relic friendly variant in that time frame and that will be the end of that opportunity for you and Fisher.  Think about it...

I have taken your message into consideration, I will answer it a little later with a new subject 

8 hours ago, CCadrin said:

I am still learning my machine. I can't wait to hear how others do it. 

I usually start at the defaults except for the sensitivity. Lately, I have it at 5 (one past the default). If there is no falsing, I'll leave it at that. In most cases I do not change sensitivity. I'll start with a delay of 8 or 10 and adjust the ATS to quiet the machine down. If get falsing upon my swings so I slow my swing down and/or adjust the ATS to 9 and/or adjust the delay to 10 or better.

It is a really correct and reasonable setting 

14 minutes ago, Luis said:

Alexander, all of us who have used a pulse know that this double-tone discrimination does not work when the target is at considerable depth.

You can't say yes it works or not it doesn't work for all PIs, it's very complex.

It depends on many parameters of the PI detector, here is a small exhaustive list:

- Number of PPS
- Coil size
- Pulse delay
- Recovery speed (Internal integration) 
- Power (Eddy curent inside target

When all the parameters are good, it becomes very easy to recognize them even at 95% of the maximum detection depth.
For example with audio sampling that follows the 10,000 PPS of the coil, it even becomes easy to recognize the pulltab of the gold ring of the same conductivity. Those who have had a 14V SSV3 goldquest know it from experience but do not understand why. I just gave the answer in part in this same sentence.

The impulse doesn't tick all the boxes, as it needs to be versatile on wet sand.
In ALL METAL mode it validates 80% of the settings which allows it to recognize ferrous metals in all situations and at all depths. There will of course always be target exeptions. A later digital version will largely erase its faults.

In ALL METAL MODE, iron example, hair pin, double bip in only one direction.

2 minutes ago, ALEXANDRE TARTAR said:

Because we want to guarantee waterproofness, and apart from the SOURIAU brand, I don't see any other serious diving connector on the market with physics parameters that perform!
https://usa.souriau.com/en-en/products/connectors

You can absolutely buy the SOURIAU connector on mouser or digikey. It's 30 USD

5 minutes ago, Badger-NH said:

Cela souffle totalement. Pourquoi ne peuvent-ils pas utiliser un connecteur comme l'Equinox qui accepte tous les écouteurs?

Because we want to guarantee waterproofness, and apart from the SOURIAU brand, I don't see any other serious diving connector on the market with physics parameters that perform!
https://usa.souriau.com/en-en/products/connectors

Platinum, palladium, rhodium, are very low conductors, they will always be accepted in tone mode.

In tone mode, you have always a limit

24K < 10 grs

22K < 15 grs

18K < 30 grs

It all depends on whether you overdo the rejection setting.

5 hours ago, vive equinox said:

anyway, this is all too long.

I think the hype is over, most of them have lost patience, others have learned that the discrimination part is more than minimal if not non-existent ..

Steve sold his, gigmaster still uses his nox.

and the few who remain learn that the price is prohibitive.

To top it off, it's 2021 and still don't know if there's a release date.

We also do not forget that we Europeans were unceremoniously excluded from the limit.

I'm afraid this will all end in a flop

It is well known, the longer it is the better it is .... 

There hasn't been a Marketing launch yet, the day it happens, at that point you can really talk about the hype ... I would try to do my best.

I suggest you go see the last video of our friend Joe with the iron on the surface and the ring detected without problem 17 '' below. We can shout to whoever wants to hear it "Vive equinox" (long live equinox in English), until proven otherwise this one is incapable of having such results. This is called iron masking.

Steve had announced the resale of his Impulse for the new version, although I am not in his place, I think it is still relevant.

As far as Gigamaster is concerned, it doesn't really need an IMPULSE AQ as all the targets we see on its videos are within 20cm on the wet sand at the water's edge. This concerns recently lost jewelry.

Regarding the price, Russ shouldn't have announced something that hasn't been discussed internally yet. Nothing has been decided.

Europeans were excluded from sales because the detector was not CE certified for battery reasons, it would have taken 100,000 USD to certify a battery that disappears in the new version.

Now nothing prevents you from going elsewhere, you do not have to follow these conversations...

On 2/23/2021 at 5:29 AM, PPP said:

I don't understand one thing....if the person(Russ) from Fisher comes to a talk show and represent the company,why is he coming out either with wrong information about the price or if the price he mentioned(2800-3500$)is right,why everybody denies what he said? In this way you confuse us as a potential AQ buyers,WHY????whats going on??? 

Because a marketing person will never say they don't know, even if they don't know

It shouldn't have happened, it's on his own initiative.

5 hours ago, PPP said:

I don't understand one thing....if the person(Russ) from Fisher comes to a talk show and represent the company,why is he coming out either with wrong information about the price or if the price he mentioned(2800-3500$)is right,why everybody denies what he said? In this way you confuse us as a potential AQ buyers,WHY????whats going on??? What is this for strategy?

It's simple, because a Marketing person will never say they don't know, even if they don't know.

1 hour ago, Ridge Runner said:

I may have fell out of my tree again because here’s something I just don’t understand.

 You got a Limited AQ selling for 1500 and here come summer you have another AQ that will be selling for over a thousand more than the Limited.

 The word Limited is just referring to the number of detectors made on that run and as we’ve been told that number was 100 .

 What I’d like to know is the Limited ones also limited in brains as one would have to think that justifies the new AQ such a increase in price that goes with it .

 If it’s face is one only a mother could love with a bunch of knobs that okay . I’ve seen some of the best detectors ever made have nothing but knobs. I do have ears and I’ve been digging on sounds for years.

 I thank you ahead because I know somebody out there can answer my question and at the same time reduce the pressure on my brain when I think too hard.

 Chuck 

Impulse AQ limited sells at almost factory cost. 
Numerous mechanical modifications were made to the new model, more injection molds. 
The 18650 li-ion batteries are in the upper shaft, all at a cost upgrade.

And many of the things that I can't name yet
The new design is beautiful. (for me)
I repeat the price for the new version has not been decided nor considered yet.

35 minutes ago, Hamid said:

True PI is for serious detecting.

I wish that any company buit a  straight pi high power with delay starts at 8 or 10. With ground balance. Raisonnable price under 1000$. 

 

Yes that's what we all want, but it's hard to get or manufacture a new lamborghini car for the price of a new ford car. 

23 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

No company is in business for their health and all have to make a profit.

 If I make a PI detector do I want to sell one are do I want to sell hundreds. I can’t make a profit even selling one out of a hundred then why bother with a PI .

 If it’s some great detectors out there for under 1500. for land and beach then anything above that in price will be a hard sell.

 You can always find some willing to go for the high dollar ones but again it’s volume of sales that pays the bills.

 Chuck 

There isn't just one company profile, let's look at the jewelry world.

You can find companies that make a lot of low cost gold rings, but you can also find companies that make high quality and expensive jewelry in weak quantity.

But for all that, the turnover is higher at CARTIER in Paris than in the WALMART jewelry stores.

Here Cartier USD 45 000

Tom Walsh said me today :
There has been no official price decision or announcement. 
There has been no official release announcement on -AQ.
We will continue to sell -AQ limited as in the Past when the next batch will ready.

Wow ! Get well quickly!

21 minutes ago, LE.JAG said:

the difference in depth exists on all sizes and all weights

but it is above all the carat / which will make the biggest difference

there is less difference (in depth)

on a 10k ring of 20 grams

if we compare BBS - vs - AQ  

it will be larger on 18k / 22K ....

((((( at 10 K you have more silver and copper than gold )))))

it will take you some time to see it in your statistics

but I am sure that you will find more high carat gold / 18k and +

with AQ

It's the invert with the carat 

46 minutes ago, Mikeguard01 said:

Some nice finds there. Nice video. I see he's using a detached control head in the video?

Mike

Yes it's normal it's a special prototype enclosure...

I sent an email I keep you informed!

Wow ! You were I guess very focused from the start ! 

At the end of the detection it might have been more difficult! 

Your sand level seems to be of interesting to the IMPULSE AQ, and must not be inaccessible to other detectors. 

You should be able to enjoy it! Good luck 

6 minutes ago, tvr said:

Looks like it is a members medal from Veteran of Foreign Wars SABLE Post 2275 that is located in El Cahon, California.

Thank you for the information, Is it personal and can we find the owner?

Denis explains in his video in French that it is the result of 4 to 5 days of detection on the beaches. 

He detect during 4 to 5 days and sleeps inside converted truck near beach there before returning home.

Does anyone know the US medal?

Denis also explains that he was 3 prospectors on the same spot at the beach, 2 Minelab detectors (not the Equinox but and smaller models) and a White's pulsescan TDI modified at 18V

He explains that they did not find anything because the gold targets are all very deep and placed on the bed rock.... (we can see the black sand appear when he touch the bed rock)

There is always a little luck of course, but also the master's know-how ... 

15 hours ago, Rick Kempf said:

Yes, 2"+ - they are available. I can order them.

TUBE-AQ-EXT    Lower Tube Assby, Extended

MSRP $79.00

 

Thank you rick for answering because I don't always know all the answers from a commercial point of view... 

5 hours ago, Carolina said:

J'ai trois arbres inférieurs différents. L'un était un arbre complémentaire lorsque mon premier AQ a été remplacé. Cela m'a donné deux de la même longueur. Mon deuxième achat AQ a un arbre inférieur de deux pouces de plus que les deux autres. Exprès ? Contrôle de qualité ? Vous devriez être en mesure d'ouvrir un cintre en fil de fer et de le rendre droit et de mesurer la profondeur de la tige inférieure. Gardez à l'esprit que vous devez effacer les deux broches. Mes trois sont creux.

Yes, we take into account all the messages and we modify.

We lengthened the lower shaft a few inches. 

9 minutes ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

I like that look now that you mentioned it! But I have to be Honest, I probably would have noticed the beauty if I was a younger pirate but seems the old pirate in me only sees one thing.........Yep, no gold on those fingers!

She may only be waiting for one thing is that we put gold on her fingers !