Competing against Deus and Garrett.
Exactly.
I notice Equinox is rated for depth higher than Deus is on higher conductive coins and relics. If my eyes aren't lying to me.
Competing against Deus and Garrett.
Andy Sabisch said:The conference was a one-day event (Monday) with the CEO from Australia discussing where Minelab has been and where it is going.
Mark Lawrie, the lead on the Equinox project, was there to provide attendees with an overview of the detector and cover some of the features - unfortunately there was not enough time to cover all of what it can do or options available.
As far as release date - Minelab is shooting for the end of the month but the software has not been fully locked down yet and the units already built will need to be loaded before shipment from Malaysia so keep fingers crossed for an initial release date of the end of January. There was no mention of how many units would be going where - remember, there are orders from around the world and the US is not the biggest market so to expect all pre-orders to be filled is overly optimistic at this point.
Clearly the reason the testers have been restricted as to what they can or can't say is because things have been changing continually - features added or removed, options adjusted and more so what you get may not be what the testers used last week or last month.
Mark made himself available to answer questions after the open forum and do some demonstrations which showed some of what it was capable of - but being inside a hotel limited what you could really test; i.e., lighting, 25 other detectors around you and metal in the floor.
Weight and balance was clearly not your typical high end Minelab . . . light and easy to swing.
The small 6 inch coil will be available at or just after the release date but the larger 12x15 coil is going to be down the road a while.
Any other specific questions people have that might have been answered in Phoenix?
Andy Sabisch
Post by Mr Sabisch at FM forum
I'm really interested in that 6" coil. Wish they could give us a price on it or price a package deal like the impact.
Post by Mr Sabisch at FM forum
Are we supposed to read between the lines?
huh? He posted a quote from Andy Sabich and prefaced it with who and where it was from.
Are we supposed to read between the lines?
Steve states you can't do both together. If you.
Good link TNS! thanks!
OK Why 5 CTXs, if I get a good shootin' iron it goes in the safe, if not it goes down the road, Are you saying that one detector will perform better than another one of the same model ? Your thoughts ? MarkTough luck TheCoilist. I've had good luck with all Minelabs myself including the CTX, which I've owned 5 so far. But you've also got to remember that the CTX 3030, like the Whites V3i and XP Deus, are far more sophisticated and optioned detector than most these new 5 button detector. Like a well optioned car there are far more chances that something will go wrong. The price you pay for more features.
....., Are you saying that one detector will perform better than another one of the same model ? Your thoughts ? Mark
Yes, there are acceptable variances to all electrical components and that fact that most manufacturers source ALL components in bulk from china, you are going to get variations.
I don't know exactly how much it translates to a CTX, but I remember there used to be a guy you could send your detector to and he would hook up the oscilloscope and begin making adjustments on the board until it was brought to its optimum level. Sometimes you got a tiny improvement, sometimes you got a BIG improvement.
Yes, there are acceptable variances to all electrical components and that fact that most manufacturers source ALL components in bulk from china, you are going to get variations.
I don't know exactly how much it translates to a CTX, but I remember there used to be a guy you could send your detector to and he would hook up the oscilloscope and begin making adjustments on the board until it was brought to its optimum level. Sometimes you got a tiny improvement, sometimes you got a BIG improvement.