Is the F75 LTD really "useless" in the city?

[markg]

I can get both my F75's (orig & LTD) to do that in certain places. Or that machine may have needed to be rebooted. Every time a sensitive machine comes out, people seem to complain about "interference". All sensitive machines, if not tuned properly, will be noisey! If its chattering, you dont have it set properly. Even at a Sens of 10, the machines are hot. With the F75, to really make it work to your advantage, let the machine tell you where to set everything. Turn the Sens down until the machine is stable, no matter what that number is. Switch freqeuncies. Try running in All Metal (that really quiets the machine down). You might be surprised.

 

[Shambler]

It is very quite and I can use 0 disc remember that what you hear is what is in the ground where other detectors don't see that

The ground must've been FULL of stuff in that video and it was still picking it up 10" off the ground. Amazing.

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

I don't think you are ready for a LTD or F75.

 

[Shambler]

You're the one that said, "what you hear is what's in the ground" - look at that video and say it again. It will make you sound even more

Allow the guy to make an informed choice. I use the F75 but certainly not in the city if I want to find deep silver. Will it work in the city? - hell yes it will. Will it perform like others in the industry in the city - hell no it won't. If you're buying one detector and it's the F75, you'll be able to use it anywhere, but not at the levels where it whips all other detectors. If you're using it in the forest or a field or at a rural house site, you can max or nearly max it's abilities and it's unbeatable. If you tell it like that, he'll buy one and be pleased with the Fisher brand. If you tell it like, "it'll find gold at 14" in a city school yard", he'll buy it and be upset with the brand - not the detector.

Unfortunately, when we talk on a level of reality, it makes people angry. It needs to be all awesome to be posted here and that's just not realistic.

I've seen posts by you on other forums saying essentially the same thing. The detector rocks - most of the time.

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

The LTD is way more tame when being swung but the sound you hear is what is in the ground bits of iron and so forth. I just may be too much for some people. My LTD is a lot more quite then the F75. Anyway I love it and have found a lot of targets that other units may have missed. But to each their own peace out!

 

[Mojave]

Low boy, have you done any depth testing with the LTD? If not ,what's the deepest item you've found?

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

I have found that the LTD is deeper then the F75 in general without compairing I have dug holes about two to three inches deeper on the LTD. IN fact I have hunted places I have hunted before finding I am digging deeper. In my soil the LTD has made a difference. The LTD runs a lot more stable then the F75. I can hunt in 0 disc where I never could with F75. I did find a lot of histroy with the F75 there have been a few places where I had to hunt in AM becasue of EMI but I pulled out a really nice old key that way and it made my day.

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

I have found that the LTD is deeper then the F75 in general without compairing I have dug holes about two to three inches deeper on the LTD. IN fact I have hunted places I have hunted before finding I am digging deeper. In my soil the LTD has made a difference. The LTD runs a lot more stable then the F75. I can hunt in 0 disc where I never could with F75. I did find a lot of histroy with the F75 there have been a few places where I had to hunt in AM becasue of EMI but I pulled out a really nice old key that way and it made my day.

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

I have found that the LTD is deeper then the F75 in general without compairing I have dug holes about two to three inches deeper on the LTD. IN fact I have hunted places I have hunted before finding I am digging deeper. In my soil the LTD has made a difference. The LTD runs a lot more stable then the F75. I can hunt in 0 disc where I never could with F75. I did find a lot of histroy with the F75 there have been a few places where I had to hunt in AM becasue of EMI but I pulled out a really nice old key that way and it made my day.

 

[Scully]

Hold your coil in the air, not moving, and if you hear "noise" or "chatter", its EMI. If your machine is relatively quiet in the air, but chatters when you lower the coil to the ground, then your interference is from ground minerals.

The machine usually runs quieter with ground matrix under the coil, but only if the ground is not hot. The other kind of chatter you can get would be from lots and lots of iron targets, but that is easy to tell by the sound and ID on the screen.

 

[Shambler]

I agree 100% Scully - that's why you know that video is EMI not ground targets - the only motion of the coil is up and down.

It's great news to hear the LTD is quieter, so here I go again buying one based on posts at Findmall I'm ---->

 

[M-scope]

I've hunted city and rural with no problems except a sore back from digging. I just hate those gold items the F75 ltd keeps making noise on.

I'd recommend not getting an F75 ltd, as too many folks probably already have one, and why get something with so many problems?

Just saying. Good luck on your decision.

Yeah, maybe you better pass on owning one. Other brands have so-few issues and work really great regardless of conditions, and are so-much deeper. Why would you want one of these?...Guess I'll just lag behind and keep mine for now, re-checking for all the shallow "junk" other detectors left behind...

 

[go-rebels]

Yes, my F75 LTD is JUNK! I run strictly in JE mode, DISC=0 and SENS=99 and all I hear is noise. In fact, I've never found a thing running in this manner!

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

You have a bad unit or should go to boost and not run it so hot and see if you can hunt that way!

 

[Mojave]

Yes, my F75 LTD is JUNK! I run strictly in JE mode, DISC=0 and SENS=99 and all I hear is noise. In fact, I've never found a thing running in this manner!

Do I detect a note of sarcasm?

 

[M-scope]

 

[tab-nabit]

Yes, my F75 LTD is JUNK! I run strictly in JE mode, DISC=0 and SENS=99 and all I hear is noise. In fact, I've never found a thing running in this manner!

So "JE" stands for Junk Electronics? Oh Okay

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Yesterday I found a SLQ that was 10" or deeper under a big root (the hole was deeper then my Garrett Propointer is long, and it's 9" long!) and that was using the F75 LTD with the sensitivity set to 90 in boost mode in downtown Oakland! I doubt you'll find a city with more EMI then that The quarter rang in the high 80's and was a nice, solid signal. I was hunting with FOUR Etrac users at the time, and I'm fairly certain that at least one of them walked right over it. Draw your own conclusion

 

[Sonny(IN)]

that would have been the ideal time to have them try with their E-trac before you dug the coin. That is the way we try to compare detectors . I feel as if they would have got the signal and also solid id. Next time compare and see for us. thanks

 

[Cal_Cobra]

that would have been the ideal time to have them try with their E-trac before you dug the coin. That is the way we try to compare detectors . I feel as if they would have got the signal and also solid id. Next time compare and see for us. thanks

Although it would be a somewhat unfair comparison as I'd already located the target, I agree it would've been interesting to see what their results were. In retrospect I also wish I'd tested different settings on my machine, such as lowering the sensitivity to see how low it could go and still "lock" onto the target. Also would've been interesting to see if DE mode would've hit it. I have compared some deep coin signals with an Explorer SE/procoil and I was able to clearly hear everything he was hearing. That darn hindsight eh?