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Minelab Price Increase?


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5 hours ago, phrunt said:

Yes, the Nox and Manticore pods are replacements if they get anything wrong with them internally.  They can't be repaired.  They do sell replacement pods for a reasonable price if they die outside of warranty, but they won't sell them unless they take your old pod away and give you the new pod, this is to stop people buying pods without having their Nox fail to make up a second unit for cheap.

The CTX can be repaired internally such as a new screen or whatever.  

It's the waterproofing that's caused the pods to not be repairable, although the CTX was waterproof also but done differently, I guess the Nox method wasn't all that great being a frequent drowning machine, the Manticore so far appears better, unless everyone's just been too scared to use it in the water ?

Minelab have quite a long support period on their detectors after they're discontinued so parts will be available for some years after detectors like the CTX are discontinued, although if desperate the Chinese have heaps of fake CTX parts for sale these days like screens and control pod housings.

A friends GPZ buttons stopped working, Minelab wanted a stupid amount of money to fix it and they wouldn't sell the part for him to do it himself so he had to ship it by post to them, wait a couple of weeks and hope it doesn't have problems in transit or go missing so he just bought a fake button PCB from China and it's worked well for him for a fraction of the price.

Still a lot more than a repair to a properly repairable machine.

Minelabs are getting to expensive in the UK. I thought we had a trade deal!

Yeah right.

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25 minutes ago, Dan(NM) said:

I decided take the plunge again on the Manticore

Is this your second Manticore ??

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26 minutes ago, Tony said:

Is this your second Manticore ??

It is, had one back in Jan. I got frustrated with it and sold it. I'm going to give it another shot. I'm hoping to learn from the users that have had them all year.

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Absolutely loving mine.......but having said that, I'm hunting white sand beaches with no black sands and next to no iron trash targets and minimal EMI. I really focus on the audio firstly and if there are no "bikini" distractions, I sometimes look at the screen ?

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  • 1 month later...

Because of the price uncertainty I have traded in 3 of my 6 machines and bought the Manticore. 

Even that wasn't enough!

I now have the Manticore. E.Trac. X.Terra Pro  and 2 Deus 11.

I sold an E.Trac,  my Legend and my Nox 900.

I am on the way to a beach with a Deus 11 today.

Until I get round ti learning the Manticore I won't use it . I don't like Minelab factory programs and don't know what to set up the machine to for beaches.

It must match my settings on my ET. 

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