Mike Hillis
Well-known member
I had Friday off and I wanted to spend some time with the larger coils i have for different detectors. One of the detectors I spent some time with was the Eurotek Pro.
I spent about an hour of the day with the Eurotek Pro outfitted with a 10"x14" Ranger coil and the FX-1 Sunray inline probe. I had purchased both of these for my F75 but found out that they also worked on my ETPro.
Hunted a soccer field of a close by local park. The coil ran fine. Dug round pull tabs down to six inches, square tabs as deep as five inches and zinc cents down as deep as five inches. Other than a few dimes most of the coins were zinc cents I and others had passed on before. The ground was really dry so accurate pinpointing was a must which leads to the subject I really wanted to post about, and that is the FX-1 Sunray inline probe used with the EuroTek.
On the Eurotek Pro, the FX-1 Disc side depth is a bit hampered. With Sensitivity on 8 which is where I set it, in Disc mode it high tones a dime to about 1" maybe 1-1/4" and a nickel out to about 1-1/2" inches. Not very good as far as inline probe Discrimination depth goes. BUT the All Metal pinpoint depth is very good.
I was pinpointing with the large coil, detuning and turning 90 degrees to get dead on (a detuned coil will pinpoint in front of the rod between the two ears) good enough to poke a four inch deep penny with a screw driver. But that take a bit of time and I had the sunray to do the fine work with. So I switched to pinpointing with the toe of the coil and using the FX-1 for the fine work. The FX-1, in pinpoint mode ( holding down the pinpoint button with one hand while pinpointing with the probe in the other) was giving clear threshold rises on 4 and 5" deep targets as measured by my digger after I got them out of the ground. I was impressed with the All Metal depth of the probe. It helped me keep a small hole in the dry ground.
The detuning process works just as well with the probe as it does with the coil and it was pretty easy to find the side wall coins with a simple detune.
Another place where the FX-1 helped me was with the steel bottle caps. The Ranger coil on my Eurotek read those steel crown caps as 84 high tones. The FX-1 used in Disc mode told me those were iron targets every time so while I still had to do the initial investigation once I got the probe close enough to use the disc feature and it gave me the low iron tone I could stop and move on with out having to finish the retrieval.
Well. That was that. Just wanted to talk about the FX-1 probe and how it worked for me on the EuroTek Pro. I like it better than the handhelds and just switch it between the Fisher and Tek detectors I'm using. The Disc function can suffer a little but the All Metal pinpointing works just great.
HH
Mike
I spent about an hour of the day with the Eurotek Pro outfitted with a 10"x14" Ranger coil and the FX-1 Sunray inline probe. I had purchased both of these for my F75 but found out that they also worked on my ETPro.
Hunted a soccer field of a close by local park. The coil ran fine. Dug round pull tabs down to six inches, square tabs as deep as five inches and zinc cents down as deep as five inches. Other than a few dimes most of the coins were zinc cents I and others had passed on before. The ground was really dry so accurate pinpointing was a must which leads to the subject I really wanted to post about, and that is the FX-1 Sunray inline probe used with the EuroTek.
On the Eurotek Pro, the FX-1 Disc side depth is a bit hampered. With Sensitivity on 8 which is where I set it, in Disc mode it high tones a dime to about 1" maybe 1-1/4" and a nickel out to about 1-1/2" inches. Not very good as far as inline probe Discrimination depth goes. BUT the All Metal pinpoint depth is very good.
I was pinpointing with the large coil, detuning and turning 90 degrees to get dead on (a detuned coil will pinpoint in front of the rod between the two ears) good enough to poke a four inch deep penny with a screw driver. But that take a bit of time and I had the sunray to do the fine work with. So I switched to pinpointing with the toe of the coil and using the FX-1 for the fine work. The FX-1, in pinpoint mode ( holding down the pinpoint button with one hand while pinpointing with the probe in the other) was giving clear threshold rises on 4 and 5" deep targets as measured by my digger after I got them out of the ground. I was impressed with the All Metal depth of the probe. It helped me keep a small hole in the dry ground.
The detuning process works just as well with the probe as it does with the coil and it was pretty easy to find the side wall coins with a simple detune.
Another place where the FX-1 helped me was with the steel bottle caps. The Ranger coil on my Eurotek read those steel crown caps as 84 high tones. The FX-1 used in Disc mode told me those were iron targets every time so while I still had to do the initial investigation once I got the probe close enough to use the disc feature and it gave me the low iron tone I could stop and move on with out having to finish the retrieval.
Well. That was that. Just wanted to talk about the FX-1 probe and how it worked for me on the EuroTek Pro. I like it better than the handhelds and just switch it between the Fisher and Tek detectors I'm using. The Disc function can suffer a little but the All Metal pinpointing works just great.
HH
Mike