AQ Day 2

[Rick K - First Member]

Nox, you are correct about the edge of the coil and it is like a knife blade. That is a function of the extremely fast sampling and integration of signals by the AQ.

Alexandre named it HRS - Highly Reactive System. There is no lag when transitioning between targets through the whole system from signal to sampling, integration and audio output when transitioning between targets.

This is why it is  fully capable, in tone mode of giving both a low an high tone when - for example - a gold ring is adjacent to or even covered by - for example iron nails.

[Steve Herschbach]

2 hours ago, Rick Kempf said:

Nox, you are correct about the edge of the coil and it is like a knife blade. That is a function of the extremely fast sampling and integration of signals by the AQ.

Alexandre named it HRS - Highly Reactive System. There is no lag when transitioning between targets through the whole system from signal to sampling, integration and audio output when transitioning between targets.

This is why it is  fully capable, in tone mode of giving both a low an high tone when - for example - a gold ring is adjacent to or even covered by - for example iron nails.

It's no different than any mono coil on any PI detector I've ever used. It is a function of a PI mono coil, which is why it was easy for me. I've been doing this to locate small gold nuggets in a pile of dirt for many years. Long story short, it's not some kind of AQ magic.

[cudamark]

My 4th hunt with the AQ was at a very popular beach......both with bathers and surfers, and with other detectorists. Probably gets hunted more than any other beach in San Diego county. Still did not get full battery life. About 3 hours today. I am starting to figure out some settings to help ferret out some of the iron. Like Steve, I'm still waiting for my first gold with this machine. I also haven't recovered any non-ferrous target deeper than 1 foot. The more I use it, the more I think you could find coins and other high conductors if you chose to do so. Today it was search in all metal, and then switch to Tone to analyze. With my current settings, I was identifying about 75% of the iron targets. I have yet to find a setting for bottle caps or bobby pins though. Fish hooks sound good too. Here's the good and bad of my hunt. You will notice that the amount of iron targets recovered has dropped dramatically since my second hunt. Some sounded good, some gave the reject tone, but, I dug most anyway to see if my settings were reliable. After a couple of hours, I relied on the tone to determine whether to dig or not. That helped keep the iron target recoveries down.  I rarely find a pair of earrings, so, that was a welcome surprise. Just junk though, but, in good condition. I actually predicted the dime due to it's sound. Same with the needlenose pliers. You can tell it's not just a big nail. You get what I would call an overload sound on those heavy iron hits.

[Steve Herschbach]

2 hours ago, cudamark said:

The more I use it, the more I think you could find coins and other high conductors if you chose to do so. Today it was search in all metal, and then switch to Tone to analyze. With my current settings, I was identifying about 75% of the iron targets. I have yet to find a setting for bottle caps or bobby pins though. Fish hooks sound good too.

Bottle caps and wire items, literally wire, and bobby pins, many are just going to sound good and have to get dug. I avoid most of the wire type stuff by digging deeper targets. Bottle caps, some give me a little ferrous edge. Many don’t. I’m still hunting exclusively in tones as I am not lacking for targets and need to weed them out.

I am definitely going to hunt silver in a park with this thing. Coins in tones.... nice low tone, mellow, round signals.

[Dances With Doves]

31 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Bottle caps and wire items, literally wire, and bobby pins, many are just going to sound good and have to get dug. I avoid the wire type stuff by digging deeper targets. Bottle caps some give me a little ferrous edge. Many don’t. I’m still hunting exclusively in tones as I am not lacking for targets and need to weed them out.

I am definitely going to hunt silver in a park with this thing. Coins in tones.... nice low tone, mellow, round signals.

Have you tried a PI yet for silver in your new home town?                                                         

[Steve Herschbach]

52 minutes ago, Dances With Doves said:

Have you tried a PI yet for silver in your new home town?                                                         

I have, mentioned it here.

[Joe Beechnut OBN]

16 hours ago, abenson said:

I could be way off the mark in saying this but. From what I'm reading and seeing in videos....it seems to me that those who have used the whites TDI and are familiar with it's sounds/characteristics are going to have the easiest time learning the AQ. I've owned 4 big box TDI's and one SL, the AQ sounds and acts a lot like the TDI from what I can see.

I agree!!....100%...The AQ is a TDI on steroids. And while comparing both the TDI BH was not that far off on depth..3 to 4 inch's on most targets. I do think the AQ has some quarks that we still have to figure out.......... that will give even more information on targets but I believe many will be site dependent. When testing both I did like the AQ better but I felt the TDI BH was a very good machine for the price. 

[barryny]

18 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Well, for me I’m a bit past worrying much about finding stuff. I’ve been detecting long enough to know if I put in the hours, that’s just going to happen. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later, but it will happen.

I’m jaded these days and it takes some new intriguing machine to get me fired up. Frankly, since Equinox I’ve been bored waiting for something else to get my interest going. AQ is doing the trick. I’m having a ball with it. I really can’t ask anything more of a detector than that. 

Steve - curious...do you even use the MDT-8000?  Fairly new machine you really haven't had it all that long....

[Steve Herschbach]

58 minutes ago, barryny said:

Steve - curious...do you even use the MDT-8000?  Fairly new machine you really haven't had it all that long....

I gave it a brief spin. The Tarsacci Forum would be a better place to discuss that. I use what intrigues me, and right now I'm infatuated with the AQ. I have several machines, and can only use one at a time.

https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/13112-first-gold-nugget-with-mdt-8000/