Overview And Initial Review Of The Accupoint Pinpointer

[phrunt]

Hopefully on the Accupoint 2 they incorporate a bluetotoh mobile phone connection and app, once you've had that, nothing else really compares.  Basic functions on the pinpointer, enhanced configuration on the app, well beyond what you would ever do on a pinpointer itself.

I'll follow this one out of my love for pinpointers, so far it's not showing any reason I need to own one, that 20kHz is interesting though, if it's a very sensitive pinpointer on tiny targets I must own one so I'd appreciate any tiny target feedback from someone that has one vs other pinpointers on the market that were sensitive to small targets such as the side of the Garrett Carrot AT and the XP MI-4/6 and especially the Whites TRX.

[Johnnysalami1957]

Thanks! cool.

[Airtemisa]

The game changing will be the Accupoint technology in the body if the Pulse Dive @Nokta Detectors ?

[F350Platinum]

Got mine today, same deal as another got. No box but everything included.

I'll do some air testing and in ground testing against the Carrot, the F-Pulse, the MI-6 and the Quest Max.

@MFF18B did such a great job reviewing this pinpointer that I'll add any observations I make here. ?

[Digalicious]

I'm looking forward to that review F350.

Weird about the box thing though. 

[MFF18B]

F350,

  Looking forward to your feedback.  

[F350Platinum]

11 minutes ago, Digalicious said:

I'm looking forward to that review F350.

Weird about the box thing though. 

I'm only going to add anything I think, I live in a place which has ideal conditions. No mineralized soil. I'm not sure where the OP lives, but I liked his observations and comparisons with other popular devices so I bought one.

Serious Detecting got a bunch of these in the bags, They shipped me the 13" XP coil for the D2 before most got it, so I think I can trust them to not send me anything "Gray ". I was given the option to get one now or wait for the boxed devices. ? 

One thing I'm already impressed with is the sturdiness of it as the OP mentioned, and the easy on/off of the rear cap vs the Carrot and the MI-6. 

[Digalicious]

I just realized that MFF said he has only been detecting for two years, and has 11 pinpointers.

I think MFF just dethroned Simon ?

[F350Platinum]

Did a quick old fashioned ruler air test with 5 (6) pinpointers, for fun I tested both the old and new Quest X-Pointer Max, the AccuPoint, F-Pulse, MI-6 and the trusty old carrot. This is the sort of crap the YouTubers do, so accept these results at your own peril. ?

Grabbed an old rusty square nail and used my silver and gold rings:

Here are the results of this test:

Nokta AccuPoint

9 sensitivity

Silver ring 1-5/8

Gold 18k 1 -3/8

Iron nail 3 ID ferrous 1 3/4

 

New X-Pointer Max

Boost mode 

Silver ring 2

Gold ring 1 1/8

Iron nail 2 1/8

 

Older X-Pointer Max

Boost mode

Silver ring 2

Gold Ring 2

Iron nail 3

 

Fisher F-Pulse

High sensitivity

Silver ring 4 1/2

Gold Ring 2 1/4

Iron nail 4 7/8

 

Garrett Propointer AT

High sensitivity

Silver ring 2 1/4

Gold Ring 1 5/8

Iron nail 3 1/4

 

XP MI-6

50 sensitivity

Silver ring 3 1/4

Gold ring 2 1/2

Iron nail 4 1/8

All measurements are in inches on a 1/8 scale hardware store wooden ruler.

As you can plainly see, overall the MI-6 and the F-Pulse hit on the targets at a greater distance than all the others.

Some of you may not realize that when you use the MI-6 integrated with the remote and headphones, it does not default to the highest sensitivity. I always have mine cranked to 50, even though it sometimes comes up hot I've learned to ignore it. That has to be saved on the remote and the WS-6. It's pretty close to the Fisher!

The AccuPoint did as expected per the manual, it went to a ferrous broken tone the closer it got to the nail.

The Quest pointers both went ferrous right at the distance.

This is a cheesy test at best, and not indicative at all of performance "in the wild" ?

Roughly I'd say the F-Pulse does indeed show it's prowess as the only PI in this group, but the MI-6 is a fairly close second. In every way I personally prefer the MI-6 to any of them except for the ferrous discrimination.

Some other thoughts:

The AccuPoint has the best rear cap of all the pointers except for the metal screw cap for the Fisher. Of course time will tell if that great cap leaks, but I rarely use a pinpointer in the water. I've already broken one MI-6 cap attempting to twist it off. ? I keep spares. ?

I get a kick out of the little "digger" front cap on the AccuPoint, I don't dig with my pointer. ?

The simplicity of the AccuPoint settings system is incomparable, literally the best. The on/off is going to take some getting used to, but I don't mind the placement of the power button at all.

The only thing I'm used to that the AccuPoint doesn't do is keep the flashlight on while the pointer is on, which all the others allow you to set up. A lot of times that's the only way I know to turn it off ?

I'll get to some in-ground tests myself, but I think the OP did a great job describing them. ?