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Well, long story short I got me a 4500. Not without trouble but I got one somewhat cheap. The lcd screen is damaged though and has lines through it. does anyone know where I can get a replacement lcd from? And if it’s a simple plug & play type fix? Surely there’s some equivalent from china that will work..? it’s not BAD but it’s not great and it’s definitely not ideal. Would hate to be out and it stops altogether. cheers lads

Always, as most of my spots are rocks/clay so it makes for heaps faster recovery

well done! What's the total weight?

Very nice!

Anyone here converted Grey Ghost headphones from the XP Deus 2 to the Equinox plug before? Hoping somebody might have a wiring diagram of some sort? One would think that only 3 of the pins are used but I'm not sure which ones. Seems a bit wasteful that I have these $260 headphones but never use them. the plug seems like a generic thing I can get a female version of online, then make a patch lead/adapter. I've already got a Equinox 1/4" adapter cord that I can cut the plug part off.

Great to hear, looking forward to hearing what you find there!

Thanks all! I use a scoop only in murky water/rough conditions where I can not see underwater. This spot is usually clear enough that I can snorkel it so I don't bother with the scoop. I find so much here that I don't bother ever using the scoop, I just wait until I can swim it. I always use dive weights when I'm in the water, it helps keep you down, otherwise the wetsuit makes you far too buoyant and it's soo hard to dig targets, especially when there's waves which constantly push you around. I just weighed my belt and I'm using 13.1kg (10 weights) . It'll depend on your BMI as well, I'm 6ft5 & about 92kg, so you may need more or less. My wetsuit is also very thin, about 2/3mm. When I tried out a thicker wetsuit I was using near 20kg of weights and it wouldn't keep me down, so keep that in mind. It can get pretty cold in winter. A wetsuit hood also makes a massive difference. If you're planning on going deeper in the water (eg, scuba diving) it'll also vary as your wetsuit shrinks at depth. A quick tip as well which I find helps a lot; find a yearly graph of water temperatures for the location you wish to detect and print it out. I can see the water temp for each month of the year so I know when it will be coldest and warmest. Take advantage of the warmest months.

Hard to describe the mixed feelings here. From initially seeing it come out of the sand and going.. "GOLD!"...then feeling the weight and being ehhhh, then getting to the car and not seeing hallmarks..but then saw no worn plating..but then it's very light...but also "well if it was brass, it's so cheap, why hollow it out?" "hmm looks pretty clean tho" . Ughh. Went straight to the scrap gold buyer with the XRF and was more than pleasantly surprised to hear that it was testing between 17 and 19ct gold!! Wow what a relief. I was hoping 9ct at best lol. Didn't sell, just holding it for now. The links are hollow and it's super worn, like hanging on by a thread of gold. Definitely for the scrap pile. I was soo thrown off by the weight. Being hollow links I thought maybe 13-12 grams, but not even close, 37.4 grams!! Although there has to be a little sand and water in the links so maybe closer to 35g. Still over 1oz and my heaviest gold to date. Up at 5:40am, left at 6am, got there 6:30am right at sunrise and left by 8am. Made roughly $2700AUD in scrap gold hehehe. Overall, terrible conditions in the water, super rough, 5m vis, very very strong current and big waves. I found a small patch and found a silver 2 shilling coin and a silver ring as well which was nice. Was hoping to snag a gold ring too in case the chain was fake but it was hard going after sunrise so I just left. Tides weren't ideal either. HH

Very nice! What's the chain weight?

a lot! This is only a 7P 0.11ct and it's $12k AUD https://www.pinkdiamondtradecentre.com.au/product/round-diamond-7p-0-11ct/

Whaaaaaaaaaat! I can get 500 meters on a good day 😅 I try not to get past 300m in case the silly thing goes in to ATTI mode and shoots off again hahaha. Thats about where i lose signal anyway.

Hi all. Wondering about thoughts on this, whether it would even work or not? Mind the slightly drunken ramble but..? I'm aware there are already some PI waterproof detectors out there, such as the Garretts, 2300, etc. I'm really looking for a waterproof PI machine with discrimination and interchangeable DD coils. What's to stop anyone from waterproofing an old 2200 or 3000, etc? Is there any logical reason as to why it might not work underwater or any reason other than the expense to why nobody has done it yet? I'd love a setup like the SeaGhost mods. I have an old 3000 that I don't really use that cost me nothing..I'd be happy to risk it if this idea would work.. I've done some slight mods on it to get it to a state where it's rainproof, run out of a backpack, and uses a waterproof DD Detech coil. Great on heavily mineralised beaches and shallow water...but would be amazingly helpful underwater. imagine all the deeper stuff we're missing, or the fine chains and pendants. There's plenty of times I've barely detected earrings and fine chains with my manticore underwater just due to how much ironstone/clay is around. Sure I can get rings at 10-12", maybe barely at 13-14", but all the others at 14+ inches deep, there'd have to be heaps more. Realistically it would not be hard to build at all. 6v lithium battery hard-wired, and change the coil connectors to waterproof connectors, then adapt some waterproof headphones to a new waterproof plug (or just hardwire), and encase the detector in a 10m waterproof rated housing? Not sure how the switches would work, maybe similar to the Excal switching system. is there any reason this hasn't been done already that I'm not thinking of? I found this ring under about 1ft of ironstone/clay about knee deep in the water with the 3000 about a year ago, hence the thought.

yes! I use my phantom 3 to scope beaches sometimes. Though limited to only about 350 meters it's extremely handy. The first time I used it to locate an offshore washout I found a ring that sold for $2400. Keep in mind that you generally need direct line-of-sight with most models. Maybe exempt for the more expensive ones? A DJI Phantom 4 would be super handy for what I do. I've only used it once to scope out a property for old ruins and it was really good as well. Also to check out an island about 100 meters off-shore which ended up being an old bottle dump that proved to have some cool finds.

Is it a genuine pink diamond? or another coloured stone maybe? Very strange! Plug the number in to IGI or GIA and see if you can find a report on it. The pink Kimberly diamonds we stock, as well as lab and natural diamonds have the number on the girdle always. Would love to see a pic if you have one handy!

Thanks all! I really enjoy reading all of your comments at work - I can't always reply though as I can never remember my password. I'm simply only snorkeling, though I do sometimes use the Blu3 Nomad air supply unit. If you get the right conditions here, it's very easy to snorkel, it's rare that I use the Nomad now 🙂 Combined with about 10-12kg of dive weights as well. The silver bar is a charm/pendant, but made from a genuine ABC bullion bar. it looks like the part holding it to the chain was far too small and it must have snapped off, or maybe the chain was too thin for it. I've found about a dozen of these silver bar pendants varying in size - usually 2.5 - 5 grams only though, and 1 10 gram one.