Yes, don’t mean to pick on details. A 30 gram 24 kt ring would signal like a large piece of iron in either of the discrimination modes. That’s a fact. No holes - just a long persisting target registering on the upper side of the balance point.
Should limit sales in China or India, but not so much here.
Besides, pros hunt in all metal and the discrim modes are for special circumstances. So, why get the AQ then?
Because in all metal it is deeper and quieter than any existing detector in the salt - period. the discrimination and especially the Black Sand mode are icing on the cake.
Our pal OBN loves his, but points out that it won’t replace his Excal - but give him a new powerful tool to do jobs the Excal can’t do.
So “Admin” is right. If he never hunts anywhere where his current tools can’t detect big and not so big bits right down to the clay bottom he talks about - he doesn’t need one.
It’s not a Swiss Army Knife - it’s for one thing only - gold jewelry - any beach.
Unlike the Equinox, it makes no claims to obsolete anything - just claims to do one thing better than everything else. We’ll see.
Solid video documentation of its powers and limitations are on the way - everyone can make their own minds up.
As for larger rings and carets, picking 24k at 30g is interesting, but even 18k would be wary of... If you want to add in any other factors, mineralization, water movement, depth, even swing speed feel free... That number is not hard and fast, too many variables, depth loss being one. I believe you are aware of that as well, on a bench is never the same as in the field.
Well I would never consider myself a pro, thought this was a hobby. So you know, on all my machines I almost always run without GB/tone if they even have it. Time and a place for everything. But I find it interesting your tune changed a bit. Before you were saying a loss of 10% in tone, but “all pros” run full pulse. If 19 inches in real world, no tube test, should be 17.1 inches in tone mode.
Any machine I have ever recommended, to anyone, I under-promise and overdeliver. I focus on the flaws... If someone is going to spend their money, I want them to say later that I was looking out for them. I don't have a financial interest, to me my word is more important than any amount of money.
I have already been asked by more than one if they get the machine would I run it through its paces... To be honest, this whole thing has just made me indifferent. I may help them, give them the ins and outs, but most of the people buying this will sing its praises. Most buyers are a VLF hunter, no pulse experience…
According to you “it is the quietest, deepest detector in the salt. Period.” Your opinion, so far with what I have seen, I would disagree (yet the sample size is very small)... Your mind was made up several years ago. I call them as I see them, I am not going to go do what I have seen on different boards and take a trip on the U.S.S. Pander...
You may hold the “golden ticket” as the machine goes, have the say of who gets it and who doesn’t . You spent years going on all the boards posting what it can do, ( which in my opinion Fisher is not even paying you close to the actual hours you must have put in) but I know if I had the machine, then posted my findings on this board, it would carry more weight then all your posts combined… And for me, not only is that enough, that is something that I value…
You are a true pirate!
Take no prisoners!
