Difference between Deepstar 1 2 and 3

[Poseidon]

Mr foster,

I am French. I am passionate about yours detectors technology for several years now...

Can you tell us what is the difference Harware between versions 1, 2, 3 of DeepStar
What is the difference in power on the ground?

I tried but I have not found the history since the first model of diversion and models of detector ?

One last question a little more delicate, what is the difference between hardware and TDI PRO Deepstar.

Thank You
Alexandre

 

[verylazybeachbum]

Since no one has answered this, I will give it a shot. I have the Aquastar 2, which supposedly has the same circuit as the Deepstar 2(just in an Ikelite case), and I have a Deepstar 3 (among others). My Deepstar 3 seems to go a little deeper (maybe 10%, some of the time, this may depend on EMI). Now the Aquastar 2/(Deepstar 2) is what I use most of the time, because it is waterproof. As far as the Deepstar 1, I have never seen one, but i have read that the 2 was much improved over the 1. I guess not many of these are out there or still around, hence no response. Anyone Else?

 

[UK Brian]

The original Deepstar was the least deep and perhaps more important had the least controls. The Deepstar 1 had Reject,Frequency,Sensitivity and Threshold. The 2 added the very important S.A.T. control to one side and the not that important but really nice to have, power switch to the other (so if the battery meter was about to drop into the red you could flick into the low power mode and continue detecting....this reduction of TX power didn't lose you much that much depth).

At some point the coil was reduced in weight. The 2's all seem to have the lighter coil but it could have been introduced on the later Mk 1's, only Eric would know. Its been suggested you can tell the newer from older coils by the colour but Eric mentioned in the past that coils could be of either colour depending on the materials he had at the time though the older original open coils did always seem to be white.

Lots of the originals still around as they seem pretty reliable and were built like a tank.

 

[verylazybeachbum]

Brian, I have the Deepstar 3 and it has an open white colored coil. What other coil colors or shapes were there that might have been on the earlier coils?

 

[UK Brian]

Only black or white for Eric's later coils. Early detectors (before the Deepstar) only seemed to have white ones but with an offset, "cogged" (none slip) "loop ear" rather than the two most other detectors have. Going right back in time to the Deepscan it had a large solid coil of grey plastic type material.

 

[david.di]

n/t

 

[Jose Antonio Agraz Sandoval]

I have properly placed these ICs? in Deepstar
not work...

U1 = TLC555CP
U2 = TLC555CP
U3 = TLC555CP
U4-U5 = HEF4538BP
U6 = UA709CP
U7 = TL061CP
U8 = TL062CP
U9 = TL061CP

Thanks