Anybody here ever use one? One came up for sale on another forum and I managed to grab it. Wanted to try one for many a year, but they're like hen's teeth.. few people seem to want to part with their Diablos. Wondering what I can expect from it in bad ground and the relative sensitivity to small gold (vs., let's say, an older White's or GB 1). ...Willy.
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Diablo uMax
- Thread starter willy
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Hey there Tabdog. The Prospecting forum seems kinda dead. I tried out an original Diable a number of years back and was impressed by it's performance on small gold (1 grain test nugget). I'm hoping that the uMax version is even better. It really seems to be a 'keeper' detector, judging by the dearth of units seen for sale on the classifieds. Definitely a lightweight unit and good for hiking in. Nice thing is the coil interchangeability between it and the V/C/T. ..Willy.
Desert_Rat
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Willy, you'll love it. I took mine it for a tune-up last fall. It does wonderful in bad ground, and especially with the Hot Rock balance. I'll never let mine go, 
.. have you ever compared the Diablo to machines like the White's Vsats, GB1, and such re. ability to find small gold? reason I'm asking is that, at presemt, I have a GMT. It's a wonderful nuggetshooter, but I wouldn't mind replacing it with an MXT (found a lot of nuggets with one in the past) and have the Diablo for the tiny stuff and bedrock. Might even pick up a Vaquero to complement the Diablo and for the expanded coil selection that would result. ..Willy.
I have a gmt, a lobo supertraq ,a diablo gold deamon2 and a diablo umax. The umax is by far my favorite machine,the gmt seems noisy and confusing to me,the supertraq is smooth but you have to have the threashold up to high and you cant manually ground balance the machine. The gold deamon2 does not have the power of the diablo umax.The diablo umax is incredable smooth, deep, you can lower the threshold down to the tiniest hum and it stays contsant, where the gmt and the supertraq threashold will disapear.I love manual ground balance ,I dont trust tracking.The diablo is so easy to ground balance and with two ground balance nobs you can do so many things with it,have one spot on and have the other one negative for an alkali patch or one spot on and the other a little positive for checking out the small or weak signals.I just wish it had a 180 disciminator like the lobo supertraq.I cant wait to take it out west to see what it can really do, and compare it to the gmt.
amcjavelin
Active member
what frequency does the diablo run at?
Desert_Rat
New member
The Diablo uMax runs a 17.8 kHz