CS4PI C-Scope, Is this an Eric Foster design ?

[Wirechief]

Hi Eric, I hope you are well and just wondering if you designed the CS4PI for C-Scope? It definitely has a different look and I bet it is a bang up beach detector. Ok just wondering and CU later Eric, God Bless.

John Tomlinson
John's Detectors

 

[gatorguy]

I know of a CS6PI?. It is a decent beach detector, runs at around 15-18Usec. Will not be sensitive enough for small gold and thin rings, usually it is the medalion on a chain, if it has one, that you detect.

It has no service in US any longer, they withdrew several years back, it is a British detector, designed by Eric. Don

 

[Wirechief]

Hi Don, I have a loose agreement with Alan at C-Scope to be a dealer for them here in the U.S.. I will approach this with caution but Alan is a really cool fellow and hope to get to try this out and see how it goes. I'm afraid I am going to have to be too high on pricing. They probably won't sell.but I'm open minded and want to give it a shot. Ok Don CU later and God Bless my friend.

John Tomlinson, CET

 

[UK Brian]

The CS6PI and 7UMD were Erics designs but the new C-Scope CS4PI might not be. It has a 20 cm ISOCON coil, uses 8 1.5 volt batteries and has a variable frequency from 1000 to 4200 PPS.
There's supposed to be two new 'revolutionary' C-Scopes due. Regton in their catalogue have a sort of shadow picture which suggests that the CS8PI is based on the design of the Newforce R1. If so, its got a meter. Why have a meter on a P.I. unless its got something special to display ?

 

[Mr.Bill]

The CS4PI looks like it's based on the CS7. Looks like the same housing, same coil.

Just taking a guess, but I would venture to say it's a modified CS7.

A side note:

Eric did design their PI's for them, but they choose to use a PIC chip to control the CS7, a bit different than what Eric designed. In it's day it was the hottest consumer PI one could get on the open market. It ran at 15uS., and was basically a Beachscan cut down a bit.

The CS6 PI was like it but without the PIC controller, and not waterproof, and a tad slower.

 

[gatorguy]

Interesting info, I thought maybe he just had the number wrong in the model, didn't know they had come out with new ones. Don

 

[gatorguy]

I don't think the R1 is a PI??? Don

 

[UK Brian]

No its not. Perhaps I worded it wrong....its looks like they have used the same style of under arm battery container and meter housing as with the R1 VLF.

 

[Wirechief]

Yes they have just come out with the CS3MX and CS4PI.

John Tomlinson, CET

 

[delbert grady]

Does anybody here know what an "ISOCON" IS

 

[UK Brian]

Think its just a term they borrowed, something to do with imaging. They have applied it to the coils on all their machines, VLF, TR, P.I. for years.