Skull diver

On 7/7/2020 at 2:13 AM, King-Of-Bling said:

Most recently the Nox , which I sold

16 minutes ago, Rivers rat said:

Niche market

Exactly! And You (producer)never know how your niche will react to the product launch until you make it for real.

But today, with all the forums and users reports, factories still seems to be on another far planet.

I'm happy to have a straight and easy contact with Alexandre and Rick (thanks to this forum and Steve) and even more happy about the fact Joe is in some way influencing the future model development....

41 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

Who makes that coil?

Coiltek...

21 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

12.5” too large, 8” too small..... 10”-11” just right! 

I know Steve, 10" can be the good balance between ground coverage and water handling...But I need it smaller cause of multiple rocky places where seems to do crevicing for rings..Not always I'm able/strong enough to move big rocks downthere, so a smaller coil can help. The only option is to tilt the coil and use it like a pointer but I'm afraid for the cable connector on the coil housing to be soon damaged doing this practice.

Salt too is an enemy for big coils near me...I use also the 14x9 on the Ctx with reduced sens or Auto to keep it quiet...

There are few things a water hunter needs to be happy when doing his work...

A good bottom condition and a well prepared machine to do the job.

Many times I found good stuff but really struggling with a coil larger than 10".

Vlf or pulse, will depend for the most by the environment type, but talking about coils, there's no comparison for a diver with an 8".Not only saltwater is a reduced problem with it, but between rocks, between waves,between any other thing, I still prefer to use a smaller coil.

I'm in love with the AQ performance, for what I can see in multiple videos Joe OBN is publishing, but I only think about a smaller coil to be released soon.

I hope Alexandre+FT are already working on this thing, cause otherwise I'll be forced to wait until that moment will be reality.

8" coil is a rule for me.

Nokta...Always a step furher talking about niche's products and advertising of them.

9 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

This stuff is mostly knee to crotch depth

Go deeper Steve!I know is scary for the actual machine stated weaknesses, but seems to me like you are only meters away from the edge of glory point...

1 hour ago, abenson said:

I've owned 4 big box TDI's and one SL

Think about the PRO depth, with the SL stability, remove almost half of the weight and that's it ... AQ is this...with something more that I'm still on the way to learn about conductivity accept and reject process..

16 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Use the proper tool for the job, and not all sites call for a PI.

Also, not every beach is the same place where you can find stuff in the same way...

I frequently see pictures of beaches with hundreds meters of exposed wetsand during low tides.

Never seen anything similar near my area.Due to the coastal morphology and related beach position on the earth globe, there are places, narrow beaches, where all the stuff can be surged far out from nearshore to the deeper area of the bottom.

Conversely, where a vast beach area is open and dry in the summer, not only people can stay there and leave/loose stuff, but things can be everywhere from the dry to the chest deep water area or more.

Unless some "sun umbrellas warriors", I rarely see someone with a detector On the beaches around me, but in the water we are dozens!

Primarily for this reasons I'm honestly angry with FT launch politics.I accepted only the waterproof rating issue still to be solved to justify the longer wait, but a professional beach oriented machine, can't just be a waders toy....

1 hour ago, Rick Kempf said:

8 machines in the wild

8 of 99 active users?

I still think about the bad surprise to be out of the games only cause I'm out of the USA.

All that list of waiting people is drastically disappeared or what?

5 hours ago, Tony said:

There’s a reason why detectors such as the discontinued Tesoro Sand Shark had a minimum start delay of about 25uS.

I think the Tdi is another kind of beast Tony...I strongly suggest You to try and find the "sweet spot" between noise and "life signals" under the coil...

(In saltwater):

>Turn on the gain to 40/50%

>turn delay Up from 10uS and meanwhile Bob the coil to where the noise seems to gently disappear...Check the number...

>last one, if you want two tones, turn on GB and raise it to the nickel coin level to be accepted with high pitch tone...(try on land the first medium conductive one).

now, you might find other 30/40 %of gain available without to hear the screaming bit.... in your ears.

Don't change the order but follow Gain+delay+eventually GB.

Just my recent experience after months of crazyness.

46 minutes ago, Tony said:

I would rather hunt at 10uS and a low Gain rather than 15uS and a high Gain

You're right...Unluckily I tried any way to set the lowest delay with scarce results despite 50% Gain.

I hunt in a strong salty area, where is really hard to keep quiet the machine even at 17uS.

I finally managed good results only raising up to 20uS and despite using GB on to skip coins, I finally used with full gain and rock solid treshold the Tdi.

Surprisingly, our loved gold rings don't disappear with higher delay with this machine...The scary thing is the GB knob cautious use regard the black hole!

1 hour ago, Beach Pirate said:

do you think it is possible to keep pulse delay at 7 but reduce sensitivity to stabilize falsing

I think You might want to try exactly the opposite combination...

26 minutes ago, Tony said:

4 x 18650

True...With 3500mAh capacity.

11 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

They show field restricted to just the edges of the coil

I remember this video!

Actually not so much to describe any kind of coil to someone, but If I'm correct, the picture right now visible in the screen is a concentric one.

Way too optimistic shape for the  coil emitted field...Not to mention the invisible upperside...

1 hour ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

Second set of pictures are from the batteries I'm working on

And thanks to those numbers under pictures I've finally understood the real way to have a clear idea of battery duration !

I'm deeply focused on realizing an efficient pack for the Tdi and more than voltage, I need capacity!!!

Tried with discrete success 8 x Ni-Zn 1.6V Pkcell in the original holder, but they are scarce in capacity. Two hours after I started, treshold slowly died and I can clearly heard the lower energy by the sound.

I usually hunt for at least 4 hours to be surprised with gold in last minutes before to quit...Too bad .

I'll try to explain my point of view like a child.

If I'd have to describe with a word the entire White's brand's impact today, I would say "Old".

Four ancestral basic questions for an easy marketing plan are:

Who are You?+What do You Do?+What do You sell?+How can I buy it?

Well, I see over 70years factory's background, doing nothing new right now, closing production and sales and no way to buy stuff from them.

Please rewind the process back in the years with me:

Was the factory doing new plans on future's brand new projects?

Was the production line updated with new technologies and trained workers?

Was the dealer's + distributor's system improved?

Was the factory doing advertising bombing way before a newborn project was in the way to appear?

Hard to shrink everything in few steps, but here is the trick!

Nothing today is easy unless you MAKE it easy for me and the entire world!

Competition is out there ready to push you continuously with videos, mails, promises and believe me, it works.

People want to know what's in your boiler soon as You have first gunpowder to burn!

I close with one last word: Equinox.

Come on!!!!!!

Reading your post I'm happy for two reasons.

First one, I'm maybe claiming too much from my machine, continuously complaining low battery duration not far from your result.

Second one I'm almost to the point to live in peace of mind with the idea of aluminium targets at some depth.

Even using GB to hear two tones, I still dig monster holes in a place where I've done good results before and a little after lockdown times.

Fooled by little fishing sinkers but holy God! I guess the Vlf failed  dozens of times there.

31 minutes ago, 2Valen said:

That way when people look in they see an empty vehicle and my seats can stay in the upright position.

Same trick I use since ten years ago.

I found two times broken passenger's glass in a remote area where I hunted multiple times.

Never leave visible stuff when You leave the car to go far from it.

I was suggesting one of the Joe OBN's video to someone here on the forum days ago and now, even better there's an entire chapter on those mens who wrote the history of jewelry hunting...I'm fascinated to found today traces, names and environment clues from the past.

In a way or another, things done like that many years ago are still applicable and for sure the rarest thing is to find someone who can share his knowledge and techniques without to hide little secrets.

I do this thing since 2005 and found nothing relevant but trash for the next three years after.

When I was in need of a slap on my face to wake up brain and start doing the right things I found Jim Brower, Gary Drayton and recently Clive Clynick books to be really helpful.

Those guys are currently on the field, not writing so much...Just like I do when God open the water doors..

Believe it or not, the magic wand is however working part time. I found all theories to be revisited place by place, day by day and twice too.

Talking about old good days, five times in 15 years I've been able to go back home with more than 5 rings or pieces (gold only).I don't even count stainless, silver or fashion things...

Still learning, still improvement to do, still trying to defeat sand levels...

18 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

(I never felt that way about the 3030

Especially with volume gain at 25 and target trace on...I want to go back with it in the two spots I hunted with the Tdi last week and re-check the area faster.

4 gold rings already pulled out but losing lot of time and batteries means probably other good stuff in the area to be retrieved with some discrimination help.

2 hours ago, goldenoldie said:

I have no idea how a QED using its Beach Mode would operate within a Beach environment

Interesting to know other machines are available with so low pulse delay...However, with my tdi, minimum of 10uS is only stable on the wetsand.

If you go in the saltwater, sooner or later you'll find mandatory to raise up to 20uS to find an acceptable in-ear noise level🤐...

Qed not submersible and NF coils too if I'm correct, mean that You can try it on the beach far enough from waves and should be fine at 7.5uS.

7 hours ago, Compass said:

Hi diver, I did a little freediving with an early White's underwater metal detector when I was stationed in Hawaii in the 70's. I don't remember the model number but it was the size and shape of an electronic megaphone and had one earpiece that snapped into a hood.

I used to dive down and acquire multiple targets and mark them with plastic clothespins. I'd then surface, get some air and go back down and dig all the targets out with my state-of-the-art french fry basket. 

If I tried that today I would probably black out!

You remind me of a gorgeous documentary of that years I found on OBN channel...I'm sure You'll love to watch it... I don't have the right title now, but if You check is easy to find it!

Being in Europe I'll wait longer for the next released model to be here.

I'll go in multiple places where sands are terribly soft and heavy. Is a nightmare to dig there. Old Dunes with some black inside. I managed really few coins there with my friend's Excal in all metal. No way to hear treshold in disc.

This will be 50% of the use cause usually I hunt underwater and for the most I'm on wetsand only when testing new stuff.

My focus is now on another fact:how to dig efficiently between rocks under the surface. Not only the scoop is useless in my area, but I skip all those places where a certain sand doesn't remain for long out of the hole.I have a Suex scooter for this work but so heavy to kill my back going downthere.

A dream of mine is to explore ignored places like this one, equipped with a 4x4 quad (not allowed here on the beach).

I tried to move sand with a dredge I built, with scooter and with hands. Nothing works properly if there's not real wave's energy for at least three days.

For this weight reasons I recently transformed my equipment to freedive and hunt the shallows.

Still need to improve how to stay longer down when digging holes, as apnea's first rule is total body relax...But relax doesn't happen when you move sand deep to 50cm🤣

Welcome on board!

Golden days are what push You to do it again and again...And when You go back home without gold, roasted meat and a good icy beer can solve the problem soon...

Thanks to this theory since last september, including quarantine, I gained 20+kg more than my usual weight💀😩😩