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23 minutes ago, abenson said:

OK went back to the previous version on the Manticore and it's a night and day difference in performance. Got too much going on tonight to try and upload the latest version again and see how it really works. But now at least I know I can get back to a previous version.

nice one! is there a new installer app?

15 minutes ago, TripleT said:

Also our clad coin here in Canada is iron core multi layer.  And shows up as garbage signal with anything over 18 power.  So, there's a trade off.  Jewelry mid to high power or clad with low power.  

 

so running multi-freq @ around 16 sensitivity gives a decent signal on iron-core clad? Can you say a bit more on this, ie what settings you use and what they sound like. I use my EQ800 @ single freq and do ok on these...

NOTE to MINELAB: my MacBook pro only has usb 'C' ports. used an Aukey USB-A to C adapter but update fails (no connection).....sigh.....M105 update does work using the same adapter.

pretty lame Minelab....if anyone knows of another adapter that works in this situation let me know....

will need to find an (antique) PC with USB-A port.....

'rusted foreign coins', Canadian or Mexican?

it boggles the mind how Minelab releases the Mcore, then 900/700 and even Xterra Pro and yet 2 relatively simple tech coils are yet to be released....    These would be very popular, increasing Mcore usage and I would imagine them to be high profit margin items. I just don't get it Minelab. Myself, I want the small coil for jewellery hunting/light weight and will buy one as soon as it becomes available. Come on Minelab get off your proverbial asses...and make this happen.

10 hours ago, strick said:

He did mention that guys with shovels have made a mess. Shovels are a bad look in  public park. It will get us all banned.

yes, I've been booted from parks because of MD'ers with shovels messing things up...I use a Hori Hori gardening tool. works well. Shovels and Parks/schools don't mix...and it could be our undoing....

Merrill  would probably have done better using ChatGPT....

7 hours ago, Dan(NM) said:

I have tried connecting both of the headphones to my smartphone. My phone will detect both pairs, but they will not connect. It could be that my phone is too old, it's about 2 years old.

my Pixel 6 connects and saves MT105 device but the headphones won't play music from the phone....lame...

43 minutes ago, longbow62 said:

Its going to take a major leap for me to even consider another detector

5 years from now ML will come out with an FE-CO screen, 3-D display 'OrgasmaCore' and it'll be deja vu all over again...

Red light, Green light….

yes, like on the Korean game show on Netflix but reversed, lol. decided to take my IhaveaCore out for show and tell (ground is frozen/muddy here) so I charged up the M-core and M105’s (green light!) to give it a go anyway. On arrival turned them on and the M105’s wouldn’t power on! tried to reset them (10sec power button press) to no avail…sigh…so back home it was to get the supplied cable…that worked…

Later, at home they came back to life….turns out it’s related to charging…red light (charging) good, green light (charged) bad! ie lockup…so as long as they ‘don’t think’ they’re fully charged, good to go…but see the green light on the charger (charged), pull the cable and deadsville... oh well, hopefully I’ll be the only one to see this. I’ll apply for my RMA # when ML staff returns to work….

On another issue, the ‘noise cancel long-press trick’ I watched a couple videos of folks attempting to achieve ‘one number’ nirvana doing this and having issues with ‘outliers’ rearing their ugly heads, thereby ending up picking a number they liked, sort of.

So I had an idea. Now I’m an old guy and pretty ‘shaky’ (both demeanour and physicality) so I came up with the idea of an additional piece of detecting kit to solve the stability issue, a tripod!

Now don’t laugh y’all. folks drag along shovels and scoops so why not a tripod. since it’s been said (by one who knows) that the M-core must be held ‘perfectly still’ when noise cancelling, the tripod then comes into play. set it up (as high as possible) carefully balance the beast on it and commence with the long press noise cancel 'trick'! Voilà….you’re all set.

haha…oh, and if those evil outliers still persist then the forthcoming FW update could fix it once and for all by simply masking out those pesky outliers in software and homing in on the single number, fixed! it’s mostly phycological anyway so give em what they want, eh…cheers and a happy new year to all…

5 hours ago, PSPR said:

Longbow62, I noticed the TID numbers were red in addition to the red line under the number for iron.  I think there are a few versions Minelab is testing to update the Manticore software.  I read a post that said NASA-Tom was testing a version that is two or three version numbers ahead of the version shipping with the detector.

Maybe Simon is right in that Minelab is holding up Manticore production until they get some newly found bugs worked out of the software.  I'm sure they are upset about the videos CD is putting out about the Manticore.  Especially after they apparently (according to CD) sent him a free one for testing.

I'd really like to see the ability to reduce/adjust the target trace display decay time. I believe it's always 5 seconds. maybe it would show adjacent targets and their locations a bit better if you could drop it down to 2 or 3 seconds.

I believe TomD mentioned version '59'. the production SW version is 5.12.0+50

56 minutes ago, PSPR said:

The in-ground falsing does sound like a problem but I can't test the various solutions without a Manticore.  I'm don't think there are iron loaded sites I've visited around here that would be a problem anyway.  I've read that NASA-Tom is already testing an advanced version of the Manticore software so there could already be fix to mitigate much of it anyway.

Sounds like a normal Christmas to me.  We did the same in the morning after breakfast.  The dog made out like a bandit!!  Then watched all our planned Christmas movies and now I'm on to Alien (ET) documentaries.

I recall Tom saying his version was '59' at one point. I believe the shipped version is '50'. I don't believe he has easy access to the proper sites for 'bed of nail' testing, maybe other 'testers' are running newer versions of the software also... I have a site with a lot of small gauge rusty wire bits everywhere that I'll try out in March/April when we thaw out here....

you know what they say about big feet and small.........coils...lol

21 hours ago, Geotech said:

Most of the newer designs use ARM Cortex micros like the STM32 line (my favorite). Programmed in C or C++ (my preference).

mention of ‘C’ & assembler brings back the memories, from Fortran test code (and HW design) for ECL based B-52 flight simulator to berkley Unix system startup for my 1st ‘C’/assembler job doing diagnostics then to Fortune Systems for Unix-based FW/diags/device drivers, then Mips for chip test assembler simulations then Unix based FW/diags/device drivers (I was the only non-genius there) then to Apple for the same!…after quitting that I should have applied to one of the MD firms! I would have been a good candidate..except that I didn’t handle/use a metal detector till I moved to Canada years later….good times..

Looking forward to buying your book when it comes out…cheers

that ring rang up pretty high, low 60's compared to the gold ring compilation posted earlier here. wonder what the weight is and if 14K is actually stamped on it (should be).

4 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Yup. Not everyone wants to invest in new coils. What about that superb Coiltek 10x5? If I go to Manticore, it’s no good. Works on 900. I see lots of reason, and not just price, to go from 800 to 900. I may go 900 first while dust settles on all but inevitable Manticore issues. If it’s the first bug free detector in years that would be a first. The 900 in the other hand basically fixes Nox bugs. It will be the best seller in my opinion. People overestimate how many of the general public wants to spend the big bucks on a detector, and the 900, building on Nox success, really hits the sweet spot. Forums skew to machines like the Manticore, but forum members are generally running detectors at higher levels than the average people you will see at club meetings around the country. Even the 900 is a stretch for a lot of people.

I agree with you but in my case I'll just stick with my 800 with Tele-Knox 3 piece rod (dark blue same as my lightening blue Ford) and the Coiltek 10x5. No water hunting for me so no problem there. That combo worked really well for me this year so I'll continue with it. But I'm going with the M-core also, well simply because I can....really don't need it and I'm not overly optimistic I missed much in the older sites I can get to but it will be fun to try. I generally drive to sites with a backpack and motorcycle so both of them having the ability to collapse is win/win...cheers all

makes me wonder if someone will drill themselves a new set of holes further up...looks a little sketchy to me as is....

CD must not have noticed this yet, lol

1 hour ago, PlacerHunter said:

Yes, some of the coins were deeper than my finds with the 800. More wheat back Pennie’s. My most finds were at a depth that I was going with the 800, but the manticore seemed a lot quicker and more accurate at discriminating out the targets from one another whether they were “good” targets next to one another, or a target near trash. When I hunted the area with the manticore, I really wasn’t expecting to find many more targets as I’ve flogged the little patch pretty hard.  Also, the noise cancel feature works well. The area I was hunting has overhead power lines, and some transformer boxes scattered around.  After hearing a little chatter, using the noise cancel completely removed it. Also, I let my buddy use my Equinox 800 while I had the manticore out. We were able to detect relatively close to one another (within about 10-20 feet) without any problems. 

very good report (and success). can you give us your settings.....ie sensitivity level etc...

3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Equinox was the leap, this is a step. But hey, I worked on both, what would I know? I’ll leave it at that.

but TomD stated the Wantacore was a 2 generational leap! lol. I seemed to have missed that you actually had input into the Manticore. and yes 'Retirement' is and has been grand for myself also.

4 hours ago, TroyLPN said:

After emails and calls being ignored (during normal business hours, I might add) I finally contacted Minelab USA.  Sorry for all the drama, ya'll, but I can't afford to lose that much money and I was getting seriously concerned about that happening.  They must have contacted him because I did finally get a nasty message saying my order is now cancelled and oh, by the way, there will be a $40 cancellation fee next time (no mention of that on his website).  Next time?  Dude!  Not if you were the last MineLab dealer on the planet!  I'll get myself a sand sifter and a shovel if you're my only option.

Now I get to stress over it for 3-4 days waiting for the refund to show up at my bank. 🙄  Not to mention the fact that he got an interest free loan from me and I could have been on someone else's list weeks ago.

he could have parked all the deposits at a crypto bank, say Celsius Network or FTX, lol

maybe Tom_in_Ca got one early, lol...

5 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

I'm going to upgrade to the iPhone 14 over the holidays, but I currently have the iPhone 8+ and had downloaded Google offline maps in case we'd lost cell service.  It was helpful, but the old satellite view didn't prepare us for what the previous days flash floods had left behind.  The old dirt road we were trying to take to get back to our vehicle had been washed out, was literally a 15' wide river and the other side of the road was a 15' tall 90 degree angled ascend, so we were unable to get across that and had to cross country around to find a new route out. 

Tom and I definitely need to get better acquainted with using GPS/mapping tools on our phones. 

What is the "satellite text feature" ?

"Emergency SOS via satellite can help you connect with emergency services under exceptional circumstances when no other means of reaching emergency services are available. If you call or text emergency services and can't connect because you're outside the range of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage, your iPhone tries to connect you via satellite to the help that you need."

just for a serious (like an accident) situation....

Cal, iPhone 14 with the satellite text feature might be a good thing to have on that sort of trip if you're out of cell phone service...

I'm in glorious (but cold) Canada. Was just told by my dealer that he is expecting a Manticore shipment on the 21st (2 weeks from now). woo hoo! I'll do the ~ 45 minute drive over there and pick it up in person...cheers

On 12/1/2022 at 5:16 PM, phrunt said:

 

 

 

just looked at my 800's 11" coil. The ears on that are pretty small and thin. These new ones are really substantial and probably less brittle plastic also....hopefully the 700 and 900 mark the end of pod flooding and broken coil ears....