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It has some things that need fixing. I'm very happy with mine ... actually have two, but after some initial hunting, one has been sitting as standby just in case the other has issues. The AQ LTD has paid for both AQ LTD detectors and then a some. Many of the good targets found with it would probably have been found with other detectors, but a few of the goodies, I suspect not. When I go back to the Excal hunting in all metal I quickly find myself mumbling to myself "not any deep targets today" ... then again, I don't get as sore from digging on the Excal days. I too am surprised in the lack of interest in it; even as a diamond in a somewhat raw state, it is still a diamond.

Wheelchair with tracks should get around that:

In my time with the CZ I think that is not the way to go. Very slow sweep over the target and listen to the edges ferrets out the iron much better.

He will be missed. Learned so much from him through his posts and answers to questions. Prayers for his family.

Where I'm at, there are some hotels that were problematic to hunt in front of that are now no problem. I'm guessing they changed their wifi equipment or fixed some faulty power transmission stuff. Not sure what changed. I'm sure you took the delay up and sensitivity down in attempts to mitigate ...

My gosh ... I must be used to the waterproof beach detectors ... when I picked up the F75 (same weight as T2) yesterday to check an area of the yard at our new home before putting in a raised bed garden I remarked about how light it is.

I recall people saying they could hear both the Sand Shark and the Headhunter Pulse approaching. I have no idea what different processing in some of the newer detectors might keep them from hearing a PI ... ?? I have not tried listening to the Excal with the AQ on nearby (or the other way around) ... might do that just to see what it does.

Was out detecting today and came across two others detecting. One with a Manticore and one with a Deus 2. The guy with the Manticore could walk right up and we could talk and not hear the other's detector. When the guy with the Deus 2 got about 30 feet away I started hearing his detector in the headphones and by the time he was 7 or 8 feet away I had to turn the AQ off until we were done talking and we got some distance between us. The guy with the Deus 2 said he was not hearing the AQ as he approached. Not a big deal ... just a data point.

Download and read the "intelligence report" report on the Fisher web page. It details the why of the CZ3D tuning. Main purpose was to make more older US coins sound off as high-tone rather than mid-tone. More details on the .pdf files found at the link: http://www.fisherlab.com/hobby/fisher-intelligence.htm

I'd like to see replaceable O ring seals on the pot shafts too. Seems to currently be some sort of thin plastic washer that doesn't give me much confidence.

Got to prepare the surface. Just spraying on the scoop handle without cleaning and a surface brushing or sanding of the surface will make it not last long. Do it right and it lasts well.

Had some north winds that were producing riptide warnings. They pushed sand in rather than creating the cuts I'm looking for in South Carolina. It's been about a ring per hunt but all junk rings since July.

Paint the aluminum handle with truck bed liner spray. The skin staining stops, there is a better grip to pull up a full scoop and the handles don't heat up as much in the sun.

If you find the list, please post it here. I'm curious about that too!

As OBN said ... some of us are happy. This was a hunt a couple weeks ago where I found a hard packed bottom in a cut in the water.

It is a killer on the stud earrings to. As you show, it finds chains that the Excal would never see. My bane is how it lights up aluminum pop rivets that have separated from beach gear.

In all metal mode I get double blips on most iron, including tent stakes from certain directions of sweep at any ATS setting. Round pieces like bottle caps and washers do not do that. They do tend to have a slightly elongated or wider beep than non-ferrous targets. I'm still working on not digging those. Most of the tent stakes go low tone in tone mode, or disappear in mute mode when I have reject set to 7 and ATS just above 8 to about 8.5.

Thank you . That makes a lot more sense now.

Interesting. Do you mean that the different modes use different filtering circuits in the signal processing?

Would love to see a comparison of this coil with the Detech Arrow 18x4 on the F75. Have been considering the Arrow coil just to cover ground looking for new drops in the blanket area of the beach.

Never purposely applied pressure to the head on mine before. Just went and put some thumb pressure on the head of mine and there is some flex when side pressure is applied. I'm not going to test it's limits. The AQ has been good to me and I do not want to do any destructive testing on it.

Only thing I don't like about some of the RTG scoops is that the 5/8 inch holes frequently let tabs slip through. They have scoops with 9/16 inch and some with 1/2 inch holes where the tabs don't slide through unless they are bent. They used to make the scoops with the size holes you wanted. Don't know if they still do that; might be worth calling them. The RTG scoops hold up well.

I didn't set up tests other than finding a non-desirable target that I was digging a lot of (rusted sheet metal screws) and testing on the beaches where I was digging them. ATS and discrimination settings interact. You can make those tent stakes and soda cans go full low tone as well as pennies, dimes and quarters while still getting high tone on most gold. I found discriminate setting of 7 and ATS around 8 to 8.5 to be useful. If you run ATS much higher you start to loose the bigger gold pieces and will only hit mid-sized and smaller rings. With discriminate around 7 and ATS just a hair above 8 most lead sinkers are not seen; I was only digging the lead sinkers that had a brass swivel or clip attached to them as the AQ, on those settings, hit the brass fittings, but not the lead. I'm getting better on bottle caps because they exhibit a wider signal than most of the desired targets ... but I'm still digging nearly all the bottle caps because I have not become confident enough yet on walking away from the wider signature. It is my headspace issue on that, not the detector because the headspace is saying "you never really know until you dig". Here is what I wrote a couple months ago:

I leave mine connected. Only disconnected to change coil and now have one AQ with the 8 inch on and one with the 12 inch coil on it. When you are in the water, either stay where the connector is above water or fully under water. Be aware that the connector coming out of the salt water or going into it will cause a sound off and deal with it. It does not sound like a target, it is a long rounded sound and not a short narrow sound like a good target. When I first saw video of that I was concerned, but after using it have found it easy to recognize and just a minor annoyance that I can adjust to.

Reminds me of when we were at Sanibel Island a few years back. Was working the water with the HHPulse. Headed back to where wife was to get a sandwich and she says lady was saying she lost her earrings as she was sitting on the sand bank with her feet in the water. Wife pointed to where the lady was sitting. It took about 30 seconds to find the first earring and about three minutes to find the second. Showed my wife. She took a picture. Then walked over and asked the lady if she recognized them. She did and they were returned. As I was walking back to where wife was sitting a guy said "That was a nice thing to do but I would have kept them". If I recall correctly they were marked 14K ... but of course I did not test them. Yup, finding a pair is rare.