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On the Eureka Gold i never saw one work or know of any one that has one.............So could i get some information on how good they are to find gold............. If some one can give me the good points for the Eureka .... And the bad points on the Eureka.........I really can not find to much posted on the Eureka..And what i do find is so conflicting it is either great or no good........... Then some say it is a good coin & Jewlery detector ???



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/2010 10:09PM by keppy.

I think it would be great to have if someone gave one to me. I would not pay for one. It preceeded the X series by ML. I would not pay for one of those either. It would be great if you wanted to detect somewhere there is no chance of trash. Without much more than a variable discrimination, -in clean areas it would be a dig-all detector. So if you were to say detect in the remoteness of the Soo-DAn, you might like it.But if there is any trash there, dig 'em all. Look into Fisher products, they are the benchmark and the GBII is still a favorite standard even though it is like several decades in production. Are they still making the eureka? How is the service these days in product support? I swear, ML has changed hands more than the town bicycle.
SJ

Thanks for the information and..Yes they are still makeing them and from what i hear and read there service these days is not that great.....

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Sunny Jim
It preceeded the X series by ML. I would not pay for one of those either. Look into Fisher products, they are the benchmark and the GBII is still a favorite standard even though it is like several decades in production. Are they still making the eureka? How is the service these days in product support? I swear, ML has changed hands more than the town bicycle.
SJ

Jim, yes maybe on some farms-homesteads for coins, or, in the bush or desert for gold or meteorites the F75(Special Edition) might be better, but run an X-Terra 705 against a Fisher F75 in the city near power lines, etc. where most people hunt because the 705 handles EM Interference much better.

Minelabs service and support has changed from Las Vegas to near Chicago and is much better I have heard. As far as I know they have only changed hands once to Codan.

Nope. No EM problems with the F75. No need for filters, it has DSP and a well shielded coil. Eureka is a dig-it-all detector, and good in virgin country.

How is the 705 doing in the North-South competitions? Not rating or just not entering as a team machine? Yes the Eureka works and will detect the smallest of foil, but likely not under power lines where all the gold is. The power line EMI seems to suck the gold up to the surface. I usually just stroll along under power lines and pick up the nuggets lying around. Thats why most seasoned detectorists do not hunt under power lines for all the gold nuggets I already scooped up. But hey, knock yourself out with the 705.

Make sure though, that you use the gold coil on your 705 when looking for gold. It is made just for gold. In fact to use any other coil would just not make sense because it will miss the gold. I have used one and you would be surprised at how small of gold it will find, just not deep. Nothing like wasting ten minutes on a speck of surface gold every few feet. Is there a filter for that? Maybe the 710 will have one.

I have never seen a machine before that got so detuned and freaked out on a speck of mineralized dirt stuck to the bottom of the coil. An exceptional machine! No wonder you need filters. Use them all.

One mans treasure is another mans trash. I can do much more with one coil than you can, and I do not have a gold coil. If and when there is strong EMI, the F75 can punch through it with the secret inverse- square law fulgetra circuitry. EMI never shut me down or made me desire a filter. Never got cross-talk from another machine. EMI as I said does not make the F75 go nutz like you would like to think it does. Real owners know, as do the no-filter North-South boys. The F75 is very quiet.

My F75 is very quiet, fast in response and deep with excellent target separation. No match with the Gold Bug PRO that also finds coins and rings masked by trash.
Keep the 705 and happy digging.
SJ

I thought I was the only Xterra hater on the planet, and then you show up
HH
Mike

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Hi Keppy,

Here is a youtube video about the Eureka.