Fisher Impulse AQ Unboxing & First Photos

[Aureous]

Now all us goldfield 'nuts' will be eagerly awaiting the Gold prospecting version of this..... please....anything to give Minelab a run for its money and bring some sanity to pricing ?

[Steve Herschbach]

On 1/4/2020 at 3:31 PM, Aureous said:

bring some sanity to pricing ?

And ergonomics! I hope they don't just make a version of the waterproof detector but go back to the S rod and maybe even ditch waterproof to save more weight. Probably not though simply as using the same components as are already being made makes sense and it would hardly save any weight anyway. But the three piece S rod looks great for dry land and is easy enough.

[Aureous]

Just now, Steve Herschbach said:

And ergonomics!

Yes! Something that ML seem to have forgotten about.....seems that the Impulse AU will only be a competitor to the SDC2300....similar projected price too, which is a pity  ?

[Steve Herschbach]

Ergo at 4.5 lbs or less should be way better than the 5.6 lb SDC and in the U.S. price should be better but given FT pricing in Oz you may be out of luck as regards price down under.

[SandWalker]

On 1/4/2020 at 6:52 PM, LE.JAG said:

I am not a filmmaker! .....

HAHA,  you think ? ? 
Et les claquettes elles sont où ? lol (where the slaps shoes ?). 
Nony 

[Rick K - First Member]

The AQ is NOT a competitor to the SDC. It is not optimized for searching for gold nuggets in highly variable mineralization ground. 

Having said that, it will kick the SDC’s butt at finding gold jewelry at salt beaches - or my name is. Not Wolf J. Flywheel.  seriously - horses for courses, SDC for small nuggets in the goldfields - AQ for gold jewelry at the beach - no contest either way.

However, when the “Terra” (almost certainly having another “Fisher” name) appears, then the SDC will have to face some new competition.

If it doesn’t let kick SDC’s butt, on ALL gold, I will buy the first “claimchowder” claimant a good Mexican lunch at my favorite place in Globe, Arizona (to and from transportation from Gold Canyon AZ included)

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/arizona/az-mexican-food-globe/

My favorite is La Casita - started in ‘47 - same as me!

[Steve Herschbach]

He was talking about the Terra version Rick. Which I have referred to as the Impulse AU. That's why the SDC was brought up.

[Aureous]

On 1/4/2020 at 3:45 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

Ergo at 4.5 lbs or less should be way better than the 5.6 lb SDC and in the U.S. price should be better but given FT pricing in Oz you may be out of luck as regards price down under.

I very much fear you are correct....

[goldenoldie]

Here are two videos of an SDC unable to get a response on a 14K gold rope chain at the beach except on the clasp. The 2^nd video has the speaker in action on the SDC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVRUtDeWED8&feature=youtu.be

 

http://youtu.be/QWDNXBWYnX0