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Why Quest Metal detectors isn't popular in America. The Fake the Fraud and The Facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3tCWMxNT6k

It's the new "Silent Audio" feature.

Minelab X-TERRA Pro Metal Detector: What We Know So Far - Serious Metal Detecting (seriousdetecting.com) Selectable SF is a "standout" feature? 🙄 "This is different from their SMF detectors that run all frequencies at the same time". Wasn't it shown that those detectors only transmit 2 frequencies? What happened to the Nox's SMF obsoleting SF detectors? What's going on here? It's almost as if Minelab went into "desperation" mode, because the Codan shareholder's told them to "Throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks".

I'm really looking forward to seeing what they have up their sleeve for their PI, even though I have no use for a PI 🙂 I see quite a few posts about many wanting a submersible PI. Is there no such thing currently on the market?

That's it exactly D. I repair computers for a living, and an intermittent lock up is the worst possible problem (by far) that a computer tech encounters. Like you said, what caused the lock up? It could be anything. Bad ram, a defective hard drive, a defective hardware driver, a defective component on the motherboard, a bad solder joint anywhere, a bad battery, etc, etc, etc.

I've had my Legend lock up once. But it was cold, at night, and I had thick gloves on. Due to that, I think I pressed 2 buttons at the same time that caused the lock up.

Ha ha, I see your point. I've never even looked at any of the time stuff, so I figured he was going into some "time" setting that I always just ignored 😁

That is sooo true Cal. Due to the low cost, many Nokta detector owners are new to the hobby. That's why so many of the "issues" reported are actually the user's lack of knowledge. Then again yes, I also see so many questions from users that aren't newbies, but clearly didn't bother reading the manual.

D, I was referring to the specific issue of freezing when going into the time tracking option. Other than raziel posting about it, I've never heard of it before. But yes, the update issues that I have read about, have been mainly resolved by re-installing the update. It seems sometimes the install gets buggered up for some reason.

Sirius, For some reason, I don't seem to have many beaver tails in my area. I mostly encounter those rectangular types of tabs. There are a few varieties of those rectangular tabs, and they ID around the 28-32 range. Nickels ID at 25 and 26. It's just something you might want to keep in mind when notching. Also, the higher conductor coins ID at around 40 for zinc pennies up to around 52 for quarters.

It depends on the size of the aluminum and how close it is to the coil. For example, if small foil reads just above ferrous, and it's masking a high conductor coin, then frequencies below around 8 khz will ID the coin almost as if the foil wasn't there. Once around 10 khz and above, that same coin will ID much closer to the small foil (just below the nickel range). I did experience some lone aluminum bottle caps having a much higher than normal ID when using very low frequencies.

Hmmm. Yes, the caveat to using such a low frequency, does mean that aluminum can ID very high. In my experience though, it didn't happen very often.

There seems to be a trend with using low weighted SMF to sniff out coins in nonferrous trash. The Legend's new Park M3 is weighted even lower than the Nox's Park 1. I suspect that the weighting of the Legend's M3 is similar to the D2's and Manti's high conductor mode. Above and beyond that, if I was cherry picking coins in nonferrous trash, I would choose a SF no higher than about 7 or 8 khz. Once the frequency goes higher than about 7 or 8, the coins masked by nonferrous trash will often read below the nickel range. With frequencies lower than that, then those same coins ID almost as if the nonferrous trash wasn't there. As such, I can see how 6.4 khz on your Tarsacci would work wonders in nonferrous trash,.

Or maybe something is wrong with your 800 Jeff 😁 Hey, at least you made the changes on the 800 to get it to detect the desired target. The guy in the video did none of that. Take for example the 800 with the ring behind the nail. The 800's iron bias was very close to hitting that ring. He mentioned something about it almost hitting the ring. Anyway, I bet if he had dropped the IB by 1, or perhaps even 2 steps, the 800 would have hit the ring. I'll have to watch it again to see what frequencies were being used, as the frequency weighting will play a role as well.

To add to the excellent advice…. Try using Park mode's new M3 from V1.10. It's weighted lower than M1 and will unmask coins from nonferrous trash notably better than M1. Then again, 4khz will do it even better than the new M3. If you only want to dig coins from a trashy park, you can either ignore or notch out anything but the coin IDs. You will miss some coins when you cherry pick like that, but you'll dig a lot less junk (very little junk if you do it right). On second thought, by cherry picking, you'll save a massive amount of time because you're digging very little trash. That means much more time is spent digging the coin IDs. So you'll actually dig more coins by cherry picking 🙂

Granted, the newer Nox's have a nicer screen, better build quality, etc, but I would need to see compelling and methodologically sound video evidence to convince me that the new Nox is much better "under the hood" than the old Nox.

I think this latest update will pretty much lock the Legend. I mean, how many more features can they possibly add? Save some for your next detector Nokta! lol. Let's also keep in mind that this is Nokta's first attempt at an SMF detector, and as far as I'm concerned, they Noktad it out of the park 🙂

Most of the updates weren't to fix issues, but rather enhancements and extra features as requested by the users. That's a good thing. The beta update is of course optional, and Nokta was only accepting feedback on that update if anyone found a bug in the update. They were not accepting requests. IMO, beta updates are a smart move.

Hi raziel. I've never seen anyone post that issue on the metal detecting forums I visit, nor on any of the Legend's Facebook pages (which have thousands of Legend users on them). Did you try the factory reset as JCR mentioned? If so, and it still has the issue, I would re-install the update then do the factory reset.

Thanks for that Jeff. I haven't even yet checked the stones on my silver rings, or the gold rings for that matter 🙂 My point is that the silver rings shouldn't go unchecked due to the amount of people allergic to some of the gold ring alloys, but especially the people who want a precious stone, but find gold "tacky" and prefer the silver look. The latter seems to be especially true with the younger generation.

The Nox would have hit those masked targets, if he had lowered the Nox's IB. I also find it hard to believe that this guy doesn't know this. Then again, he happens to mention twice in the video that he's a Minelab dealer. So sell your crappy 800 and buy a 900! Especially from him 🙂 I often see these comparisons in which the tester erroneously assumes that a particular number setting on one detector is the same as a particular number setting on another detector. Or they do know, but have an agenda. Note how in the comments, only one commenter points out that the IB is not the same on each detector. The tester replies to most of the comments, but he doesn't reply to that one.

I've said it before, and I'm going to say it again: Superb write up Rattlehead.

They definitely improved the weight. For example, the LG 24 is the same weight as the LG 15. It seems they may have improved on the performance as well. In theory, the LG 15 should separate better than the LG 24, yet that doesn't seem to be the case. Paystreak normally uses the 6" coil, but he's been raving about the LG 24. He says it's not coming off.

I've noticed that as well. Others are reporting the same, as well as the other things you mentioned. That's why I was surprised about Herr's post. I'm thinking maybe Herr didn't do the reset, or just might need to reinstall 1.10. On a side note, Dilek did mention that that 1.10 has "other" performance enhancements.

Did you do the reset after the update?