Haven't got outside to try it yet, but I do see I need to read the owners manual over and over again like Monte says.
Open up the box and see it is in the very nice case with everything in place with Velcro, this is a very nice case and really do like it.
Laid all the part out and read the instruction on putting it together which was easy to do. I notice it really goes together very nice and parts seem to fit better than any detector I have used. I like the cable inside of the shaft and the rods are triangle shape and feel very solid. The locking of the shaft from I see have to wiggle in them at all and time will tell when I can get out with it and use it.Arm cuff to adjust is very nice too and fast too to change forward or back.
Next I had a problem trying to get the battery door open and tried everything for over 20 minutes with no luck as I could not see on mine how pushing in on the tabs and pushing up the door as it should be pulling out on the tabs and sliding up the door. I had to finally pry on the side to get it open and when I went to close it I had to side it in place and push in on the top of the door to get it to close. I must be doing something wrong don't you think?
Turned it on and thought I had a dud as it didn't turn on right away as it takes a few seconds for anything to happen, but when it did it was chattering and I had to turn down the gain to around 50 which made it better.
Waved a few coins in front of the coil to see what the tones sounded like and they sound the same, so i had to read the book a little and see it was just the mode it was in. Tried to get into the basic setting and couldn't get them and after a while I see I have to lock into one of the modes and then the cursor would go down to the basic setting. Was cussing it out a lot being I couldn't get it to do what I wanted as I wasn't doing it right, so it will take a little time to get to know it. On the 99 tones the high pitch is too high for me with my bad hearing as it almost a null for me, so I know on of the first thing I need to do is lower the tone in the 99 mode. Seen where I try all of my detectors on my bar floor which is full of nails and can hear everyone of them too and with a quarter laying on the floor among the nails it was noise, so I tried the iron volume and that made a big difference as the quarter sound came though real good. I even put the quarter on top of where a nail was as I found it in pinpoint and found it gave a very nice signal.
Like I say i have to go back to the manual and read it some more and try to understand it.
I see now why Monte said to have patience and read the manual over and over to get what this detector can do.
Can use any tips I can get to make it a little easier.
Rick
Open up the box and see it is in the very nice case with everything in place with Velcro, this is a very nice case and really do like it.
Laid all the part out and read the instruction on putting it together which was easy to do. I notice it really goes together very nice and parts seem to fit better than any detector I have used. I like the cable inside of the shaft and the rods are triangle shape and feel very solid. The locking of the shaft from I see have to wiggle in them at all and time will tell when I can get out with it and use it.Arm cuff to adjust is very nice too and fast too to change forward or back.
Next I had a problem trying to get the battery door open and tried everything for over 20 minutes with no luck as I could not see on mine how pushing in on the tabs and pushing up the door as it should be pulling out on the tabs and sliding up the door. I had to finally pry on the side to get it open and when I went to close it I had to side it in place and push in on the top of the door to get it to close. I must be doing something wrong don't you think?
Turned it on and thought I had a dud as it didn't turn on right away as it takes a few seconds for anything to happen, but when it did it was chattering and I had to turn down the gain to around 50 which made it better.
Waved a few coins in front of the coil to see what the tones sounded like and they sound the same, so i had to read the book a little and see it was just the mode it was in. Tried to get into the basic setting and couldn't get them and after a while I see I have to lock into one of the modes and then the cursor would go down to the basic setting. Was cussing it out a lot being I couldn't get it to do what I wanted as I wasn't doing it right, so it will take a little time to get to know it. On the 99 tones the high pitch is too high for me with my bad hearing as it almost a null for me, so I know on of the first thing I need to do is lower the tone in the 99 mode. Seen where I try all of my detectors on my bar floor which is full of nails and can hear everyone of them too and with a quarter laying on the floor among the nails it was noise, so I tried the iron volume and that made a big difference as the quarter sound came though real good. I even put the quarter on top of where a nail was as I found it in pinpoint and found it gave a very nice signal.
Like I say i have to go back to the manual and read it some more and try to understand it.
I see now why Monte said to have patience and read the manual over and over to get what this detector can do.
Can use any tips I can get to make it a little easier.
Rick
That's true for all of their devices.