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thats a good point, TVR--some of the rejects are narrow and clean sounding--demanding attention. like any machine it can mean big too. cjc

Finally got a chance to run this machine in salt water. Pre factory service unit must have had problems because the stability was a lot better this time. Before it made noise when you touched the coil connector--not a good sign. The fixed one is silent and has good stability. There is still a b it of noise when the housing is near the surface but that's not hard to get used to and compensate for. Before, I had corrosion on both power and coil jacks--played it safe this time with "CoAxSeal" putty protecting all. With minor compensation for wave action (slowing the sweep or even holding still for an instant) this machine was great. Better as an E/W. There were not really enough targets (sanded in, picked over) where I hunted to make any good depth assessments but this is a a very powerful, smooth running pulse. Certainly approaching 20". probably more on a big ring. It also has the benefit of taking non-ferrous targets right though small iron. The stock coil didn't really allow for the use of much Gain but Alexandre had mentioned to me that pre set is 85 % of the power anyhow. The small coil really channeled the power well--probably the sharpest I've seen since the Cuda 8". Seemed a bit harder to keep the machine off the iron bits with this coil but coins did sound off with a round sound. Where you heard a sharp cut off --this meant iron. Great gold optimization as well also comparable to only the Cuda. Shame that it does not like big 22k that much in the disc modes--my one concern in that these are the prize finds at my freshwater sites. I have two 10" coils coming from Eric Foster and know for sure that this size will be a good balance between the two factory coils. Thanks also to Joe for his cell--super long run time and takes a lot of the worry out with it's right angle jack. I knew this machine had tons of potential the first time I turned one on. Minor bugs ironed out a great detector that I will run alongside my Dual Field and CTX as a main machine. Thanks to FT for bringing this tech to market--and in particular Felix at FT Service for his thoroughness getting me sorted out with this detector. I've never owned a great machine that didn't have some problems. Some leak, some have parts falling off--it's part of the hobby. What count's is the end result and I'm quite happy with this one. Regards clive

Prayers for your Mum, Jeff. chance to glance at the manual while sitting together. Kind Regards clive

Thanks--I didn't think so. c

Tried it today seemed to retain the saved progs. Get the sense that they have to be knocked off one by one. c

I had just seen Dilek's video on the updates and had to throw in my two cents--on the wide sounding PP (how can a beginner test wide / narrow to ID iron?) and the idea of giving it a "more than you can use" Sensitivity setting like the Simplex (good to learn what moderates it). Having run the unit in salt it has lots of power and from the look of it more speed than you could apply--6 and 7 were like machine gun fire. I had assumed that the fluidity of 60 tones would work well with this machine but it was a bit frenetic--maybe my overall tuning. 6 Tones seemed deepest in air and assigned targets well. 4 Tones also sounded pretty good--still testing. Overall --phenomenal filtering . processing--very clean and orderly. The response that it likes is brought up but not with so much modulation as to distort the size. The FerraCheck went a lot deeper than I thought it would too. Some targets that were corroded gave a couple of FE bars too and where you saw mostly NF corresponded with a broken tone, and a response that's tuning out with a few more coil passes. cjc

I don't know if anyone else has had this detector in the salt water where there is a lot of iron but I was very Impressed by the audio, target assignment and overall processing. This thing is fast and deep.--even in the MW preset. It brought up targets in an area that NOX and Excalibur hunters had been in for days. Unbelievable what you get for your money these days--a great value. I ran at Sens 25 Speed 5 or 6, Stability 1 or 2 and experimented with 4, 6 and 60 tones. If anyone has done any testing to determine if the Legend brings up targets best at higher or lower Speeds--let me know. cjc

To me it's all about basic theory. People run from that kind of learning like the --well you know.. virus. So lets take Modulation. I can give someone a pretty good run down on how Modulation will affect their detecting experience in a couple of paragraphs. "Modulation is a software feature that --in order to keep a handle on the wild noise of a high gain, multi FQ signal--it makes everything sound more the same. So it both mutes and amplifies at the same time." Done. However without that information an Equinox user gets out there and can't understand why the machine is booming on little flyspecks of foil and conversely, bringing pop can and sunglass signals down to sound coin size. So he puffs out his chest, gets on his YouTube channel and does a viddy: "My machine won't tell size...! What a piece of junk!" Multiply that by all the improvements in detectors over the last few years and you arrive at the present situation. Too many hunters are talking about effects--not causes and these effects have become the conversation.

Hi Tony It's factory. clive

Sounds like you got it. Had rooted around in the manual but didn't find that--thanks. A full reset can often solve a lot of problems lol.... cjc

Has anyone figured out how to do a factory reset on this machine? cjc

She's a beast! Really channels the machine's power well. cjc

Just arrived today--very sharp small coil, tests very deep. Reminds me of the ol' Cuda--very lively. Quite happy with this purchase. cjc

Just got my small ("8") coil--very sharp little coil--tests very deep and I know it will go even deeper in salt. Very happy with this purchase. Reminds me of my old Cuda--a "firecracker!" cjc

No not a Nomad they are shipping this week. cjc

Legend, First Look... -very, very nice build quality—very solid feel but much lighter than the Anfibio. Wand telescopes in and out much more cleanly. Coil is a tiny bit heavier than the AF28 to accommodate the MF winding. -overall a nicely balanced unit-not so light as to make a larger coil “top heavy.” -lot of information on the screen keeps all of your choices visible, very well laid out. Super fast access to any feature / adjustment. Maybe takes a bit of getting used to just how much is there. 1st day I’m already flying around it. -great sounding audio, not “bitty,” nice faint range, not over-modulated. -good tones come though the digital noises well, even at high Sensitivity levels. Reminds me more of the CTX than the NOX—full, strong sounding tones, clean processing and target assignment. (Indoor testing tells you a lot about how a machine handles any kind of interference). -recovery speed just barely takes air test targets at full on--(so much for any of these “conclusive” on-ground videos). This is a feature that’s designed to work in ground while processing the full MF signal and ground. I would add that an Iron Bias control, added to this speed has the potential to clip / loose targets—possibly the reason why N/M initially opted for a pre-set. Where you have a lot of corroded or alloyed metal though (such as bottle caps), adjustable Iron Bias certainly improves the versatility and effectiveness of the machine. Not a feature to be taken lightly though—an advanced setting. -turned down to Rec Spd 2, unit passes “iron cross” test with a medium sized band and two rusted spikes. Perfect tone and ID. -big difference between M1 and M2 settings M2 has much more low conductor sensitivity, livelier, sharper tone overall. -good, versatile selection of single FQs. I like the addition of “10” kHz as a “middle” high conductor / bad ground search mode. If the Anfibio is any indication I know that the 20 kHz will be sharp on gold and nimble in iron. -Gold mode—the audio of this mode shows the sophistication of the filtering / processing. Clean, fast responses. Looks like a great fresh water black sand / edge “cherry picker.” -I like the addition of a Stability control to augment (or even stand in for) normal signal balancing methods that often take a lot of trial and error to use effectively. Doesn’t seem to constrain the signal that much in air-seems like a combination of (lowered) FQ weighting and a low level adjustment of Discriminate and 1st Tone Break? I know for sure that this feature will allow the use of higher Sensitivity settings. cjc

While Im testing indoors (-6 today and frozen solid) this machine seems to have a very nice faint range--a good fade out in all modes. cjc

Narrow, peaked signals--that's how I stay off the caps with any of my pulses. What you are doing is exaining how the target relates to the surrounding ground. When the machine is able to make this separation more easily--non-ferrous. good luck, clive

That's certainly the way I see it too, Chase--right tool for the job. The AQ Limited does have a place in that tool box though--maybe in the front with a bit of hands on and coil wrangling. The D2 needs a lot more messing with to see what it's got-- I just don't chose to be one of the early adapters at that price point / exchange. Also, as we've all seen--free detectors tend to cloud one's judgment😆 Certainly hopeful though. cjc

Just reviewing whats been said about the AQ now--sorry to take so long to respond. I will say that these low delay settings are super finicky and will blank due to EMI or just strong sand. They either tune or they dont. I know this from my TDI and other low runinng Eric Foster machines. cjc

My pleasure, Chase. But if the D2 is only doing 10" on targets in salt water- (Dive mode) -why take it in at all? May as well just bring your air mattress. Had I not heard that there would be one on my basement floor at this moment. Another Anfibio in this respect. As a land machine it sounds excellent though. As for the AQ Im not sure if they conditions I've tried it in are exceptional but believe that a small coil of this size (8") will help. I did have one of Eric's small coils (10") that was pretty good but there was also corrosion on the power jack preventing a fair assessment. The coil also had problems and he now has it to look over. Just getting ready to test the Legend in sat as well. In that it was specifically developed to overcome the salt water problems of the Anfibio--guessing that its going to be pretty good. Good Luck, clive

...about 8 inches deeper--contest over. Maybe more...😆 cjc

I can't help thinking that some kind of a semi-circular guard would protect these delicate connectors on the Limited. Im developing a short lanyard / clip / loop system that will attach the machine at the handle to my belt for digging in surge. Still to coin a phrase--"performance is everything-"-and this is a full on dream machine. I think what I would like to see is a SAT control that goes higher to accommodate the stock coil in fast high saline / high EMI conditions--although im still testing--where Im hunting could be exceptional. My first unit had problems with a pot and some plastic--but FT service has been excellent and kept me in the game long enough to see past the detractions and get down to business...good luck--spring is coming... cjc

Bill --Im not a shill field tester--Im the harshest one out. But this detector has brought me around--it does what it's supposed to do very well. The rest--the physical problems are (to me) secondary. As long as it gets me the gold and my carelessness doesn't break it too easily--Im good. Overall--given some battery life, maybe some kind of a guard for the connectors--this is the best beach machine out--and probably will be for a long time. I appreciate the risk FT has taken to bring this tech to market and there's no way Im going to begrudge them for these minor issues. That would be pure ingratitude. Based upon my 40+ years of swinging--this is a gold getter if ever saw one. cjc