maxxkatt
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Minelab introduced the Etrac in 2008 and the CTX3030 in 2012. Thus a four year span between the successor to the Etrac.
There has been no real Minelab successor to the CTX3030 and it is certainly not the chatty Equinox 800.
10 years has passed since the introduction of the CTX3030 and with new hardware, battery and software technology one would think that Minelab could produce true follow up to the CTX3030.
Is the XP Deus 2 possibly the closest successor to the CTX3030? Or does Minelab think the future of metal detecting based on other platforms, not the CTX3030 platform.
Just take the CTX3030 and put in a very light modern battery and reduce the overall detector weight and I would be happy if they didn't change anything else.
Maybe Minelab will not produce such a machine due to the success of the heavy, heavy sales of the Nox line. Well, other companies have failed to obsolete their own machines only to have other companies like the French company come in and scoop up sales with their new XP Deus 2 or the nokta detectors Legend metal detector.
This is probably just wishful thinking on my part that Minelab would make such a new CTX3030.
There has been no real Minelab successor to the CTX3030 and it is certainly not the chatty Equinox 800.
10 years has passed since the introduction of the CTX3030 and with new hardware, battery and software technology one would think that Minelab could produce true follow up to the CTX3030.
Is the XP Deus 2 possibly the closest successor to the CTX3030? Or does Minelab think the future of metal detecting based on other platforms, not the CTX3030 platform.
Just take the CTX3030 and put in a very light modern battery and reduce the overall detector weight and I would be happy if they didn't change anything else.
Maybe Minelab will not produce such a machine due to the success of the heavy, heavy sales of the Nox line. Well, other companies have failed to obsolete their own machines only to have other companies like the French company come in and scoop up sales with their new XP Deus 2 or the nokta detectors Legend metal detector.
This is probably just wishful thinking on my part that Minelab would make such a new CTX3030.