Where Is Fisher On The Impulse?

[Rick K - First Member]

I have no information on exactly when AQ’s will be available and in what quantities. 

[UtahRich]

On 2/29/2020 at 7:42 AM, Rick Kempf said:

I have no information on exactly when AQ’s will be available and in what quantities. 

I expect Rick to get his Impulse AQ SN000001 back at some point. 

That said, OBN continues to roll up all of the gold rings in the Chesapeake Bay, so I'm not without SOMETHING to keep an eye on until SPRING rolls my way.  

Rich - 

[Steve Herschbach]

[Whitbey]

5 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Very funny Steve H. , I love it!!

[Whitbey]

On 2/28/2020 at 6:48 PM, Cal_Cobra said:

The challenge with a statement like this, is that the same could be said two years ago when, one year ago, six months ago, etc. 

It's a great teaser statement, but beyond that......ehhh...... I can't say more than that 🙂

Guys,  give Rick a break. He is the only person who gives us information . The one to blame is Fisher!! Just write or call Fisher and complain or boycott them and don't buy their ffffff.........new detector if it ever comes on the market.

[Cal_Cobra]

On 2/28/2020 at 7:15 PM, Geotech said:

And it might be said 6 months from now. It is what it is.

 

I get that, and no offense is intended to Rick.  Its just that there's no point in a teaser comment with no info, yet we continue to get these kind of comments. 

This has to be the strangest product rollout I've ever witnessed in my life.  Inventor promotes product for years, said product (and inventor) are purchased by FTP. 

Then a non-FTP employee seems to be the mouthpiece for the company, but the message is usually "mum's the word". 

Nobodies asking for a parachute debacle, but I can't be the only one that finds this to be the most bizarre product (non) launch in the history of detecting?

 

 

[Rick K - First Member]

Cal, no offense taken. 

My statement that things are progressing was to address the speculation (not unreasonable speculation at that)  that FTP might drop the project. I posted what I did because I have concrete information that it is not being dropped and that they are moving forward toward series production and product release. 

Folks can either take my word for it, ignore it or publicly doubt it. My information was obtained first-hand in the course of discussing the possibility of my becoming a dealer for the entire Impulse line.

As far as this being the strangest product introduction in the history of Metal Detectors, there might be some competition for that title! 

I believe that the AQ story is unique in several ways - and the many-years-long of its exposure to the public is a reflection of that history.

The Manta was revealed and discussed on public international forums for four years before first Texas acquired the project and hired the team

It began as a private development by a group in Europe led by Alexandre Tartar, a physicist. He was interested in PI detectors and the first appearance he made on the metal detecting forum scene was in 2012 on Carl’s Geotech forum, asking Eric Foster some questions about the Deepstar. His post started out with this “I am passionate about your detectors technology for several years now...”

https://www.geotech1.com/forums/showthread.php?19033-Deepstar-history-and-Foster-PI&p=148021#post148021

I noticed that post because I have been interested in PI detectors and have been “tracking” Eric Foster’s work (on Geotec and elsewhere) since about 1990.

After that, in 2013, a post appeared describing the Manta project and linking to a video demonstration of a prototype.

https://www.geotech1.com/forums/showthread.php?20661-Manta-!!&highlight=Manta

Alexandre made a series of posts in 2016 announcing the Manta Project. 

https://www.geotech1.com/forums/showthread.php?23177-Manta-Metal-Detector

I was delighted in the spring of 2017 when I found out that FTP had acquired the project . I posted about it on more than one forum and the level of interest was extremely high among serious beach hunters. Since then I have posted regularly whatever disclosable information I could come by as well as my own thoughts and at times speculations.

Subsequently, LE.JAG - the chief development tester for the Manta Project from its beginning, began to post on the usual forums. Later, Alexandre himself has posted a few times. Likewise Carl Moreland has made a few posts.

The integration of a French speaking team, working on another continent with FTP’s engineering culture has doubtless not been problem free - how could it.  Likewise designing a waterproof mechanical package for a powerful PI detector was no easy task. Then the FTP production system, built to produce relatively simple machines in extremely large quantity had to be modified to produce significantly more complex machines of a very different design.

All this took time - way more time than I imagined and I am confident that FTP management was unpleasantly surprised also.

At no time has FTP marketing announced or commented on a possible or planned release date. Until they do. We are all more or less in the dark.

 

[Whitbey]

10 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

I get that, and no offense is intended to Rick.  Its just that there's no point in a teaser comment with no info, yet we continue to get these kind of comments. 

This has to be the strangest product rollout I've ever witnessed in my life.  Inventor promotes product for years, said product (and inventor) are purchased by FTP. 

Then a non-FTP employee seems to be the mouthpiece for the company, but the message is usually "mum's the word". 

Nobodies asking for a parachute debacle, but I can't be the only one that finds this to be the most bizarre product (non) launch in the history of detecting?

 

 

I agree with you, and the problem is with Fisher personally I think they should hire a professional PR guy, who can handle this, instead of people who can't handle their public relation and promotion of their products. I think for such a big company as Fisher their must be something wrong in the management!

Nothing personal to you or any others, but I prefer you all to direct the storm to Fisher and and not to Rick, who is just trying to help us .

[Whitbey]

An advice for Fisher, they should hire Steve Herschbach as a sales and Marketing director on a contract basis for their promotion and sales etc. For the new AQ detector launch. At least we know things will be different and Steve can do some good brooming in the Fisher AQ team. (As they say new broom sweep clean)

Wink, wink , to Fisher Company!!! Fisher wake up and get your act together!!!!!

 

PS. And Steve H. Maybe can give a kick back to subscribers  of his website in the form of a 15% discount on the new AQ line detectors!  ( can't we keep on dreaming a little bit.)

[Cal_Cobra]

Whitbey you'll get no argument from me,  I know Rick is just trying to keep some line of communications open for interested parties. 

I've been waiting for ten years for FTP to come out with a new flag ship detector.  I'm not really a beach hunter so I'm not sure this is what I've personally been waiting for,  but it's certainly an interesting machine that has caught my attention.  From what the creator and tester have posted and shown us it can do, if it's the real deal, I might be willing to give one a try, and it may be even more interesting to test out at some relic sites with funky ground and/or iron challenges.