Just a quick update......i put it all back together tonight in readiness for a session tomorrow evening (although the weather isn't looking too good).
The good signs are:
1.Its harder to get stable indoors.......the coil is looking far more sensitive picking up every bit of electrical interference in the house.
2.Its louder.......the volume of the detector is far higher than it was first time around.
3.The epoxy in the coil is finished to a high standard unlike the first one which had the "bubble" in it.
Its a totally different machine to the first time i had it,seems far more sensitive,i was actually surprised the first time i had it that it could be so stable in the house as pi's are a nightmare to get running smooth indoors normally......in my experience.
Next update will be the review.
Yeah buddy, sounds like they got all the kinks worked out. They probably took extra time to give your PI some personal attention, get everything set up and tuned just right. Man, I can't turn my Dual Field on anywhere in the house. That PI picks up metal everywhere. It went off on my metal file cabinet, and I was standing at least 3 or 4 feet away. And that PI sounds off loud on very small targets the size of BB's, I can't get away from metal of any size when in the house, so had to take it outside, lol.
Here's a pic from my very first hunt with the Dual Field, which was also my first hunt in 56 years with any PI. Wife, dog, and I stayed at a small beachside hotel, had to walk about a block up the side street to get to the beach. It was a private beach, for the hotel and local residents that had beach houses there, so I wasn't expecting to find much as the stretch of beach I searched isn't visited by tons of tourists, just locals and hotel guests. But believe it or not, I was specifically looking to find trash. I wanted to hear what a variety of targets sounded like, if I found any goodies, that would be a bonus, but I was mainly focused on hearing targets, any targets, since I figured I'd have a learning curve with a PI. My 56 years detecting gave me a solid foundation, but I found out really quick that a PI is a totally different animal than a VLF, BBS, SMF, etc.
We checked into the hotel about 2 hours before dark, so by the time we registered and took everything to the room, I only had about 1.5 hours to hunt before night fell. I was so psyched to try out the DF, that I threw our bags in the room, grabbed my pouch, scoop, DF, kissed the wife, then headed out. IIRC, I think the white wire twisty was the first target I located, but the penny was the 2nd, so I took that as a good omen, at least I didn't get "skunked", lol. But look at that tiny eyelet/ferrule thing next to the penny. That thing is so small it drove me nuts, because the PI hit on it like it was a refrigerator, but it kept falling through the holes in my scoop. I dug 1 scoop to get it, so it was probably down about 6" - 8" or so. I never take my pinpointer when hunting the beach, but with the DF, I think I'll need to make an exception, since the PI hits so hard on very small targets. A pinpointer would have saved me a lot of time trying to find that small thing.
