Sven
Well-known member
This is regarding my Canadian experience with it..................
Parcel arrived this morning, grabbed the knife and sliced away at the packing tape, inside was a bunch of bubble wrap surrounding what looked like a metal detector. Peeling away the bubble wrap revealed a new looking used Fisher F5. First thing I noticed, the control box is large,after using small tesoros. A blind man can see the large LCD display screen. The unit balances for my 6'1" stature.
Popped in 2- 9 volt batteries and turned it on. Now mind you I have not read the instruction manual and began to play air test.
I am impressed with response, ID capability, air test depth and sensitivity to silver and gold. After figuring out the Fisher ID Edge and how to
hunt for modern CA clad using the tones and number ID, the F5 is a breeze. And I thought the ID Edge was a CA coin killer. The F5 I have is so much more accurate ID'ing a clad coin flat or on edge. Know the ID numbers and the tones and your good to go. Loonies and Toonies are a piece of cake if you decide to cherry pick. Loons and Toons on edge will ID as iron, low tones, single blip with -8 to -10 numbers. A square nail may fall in around -10 or -11 with a double blip or a single blip. If the nail comes in as a single blip, rescan from a different angle a double blip will sound, you know you have a nail. All mod clad on edge comes in at iron, low tone, easy to tell. Does very nice on small to large gold rings as well and even a small gold chain coiled up and a small 1/8" gold nugget.
What I like is the choice of single tone, two tone, 3 tones or 4 tones. At this point I may favor 2 tone. Audio coming out of the unit's speaker is very nice, when I use my Killer Bee headset the sounds are more crisp but, do not duplicate the lower base pitch of the F5's speaker as well. I'll have to pull out the headset I made using 600 ohm speakers that headset is just a bit bassier, will see if that produces sound similar to the F5's speaker.
First impressions at this point, glad I sold the Fisher ID Edge that I regretted selling. The F5 clicked with me right away. I'm also glad I chose the F5 instead of the Tesoro Golden Sabre.
Have to get it out in the field now.................
Parcel arrived this morning, grabbed the knife and sliced away at the packing tape, inside was a bunch of bubble wrap surrounding what looked like a metal detector. Peeling away the bubble wrap revealed a new looking used Fisher F5. First thing I noticed, the control box is large,after using small tesoros. A blind man can see the large LCD display screen. The unit balances for my 6'1" stature.
Popped in 2- 9 volt batteries and turned it on. Now mind you I have not read the instruction manual and began to play air test.
I am impressed with response, ID capability, air test depth and sensitivity to silver and gold. After figuring out the Fisher ID Edge and how to
hunt for modern CA clad using the tones and number ID, the F5 is a breeze. And I thought the ID Edge was a CA coin killer. The F5 I have is so much more accurate ID'ing a clad coin flat or on edge. Know the ID numbers and the tones and your good to go. Loonies and Toonies are a piece of cake if you decide to cherry pick. Loons and Toons on edge will ID as iron, low tones, single blip with -8 to -10 numbers. A square nail may fall in around -10 or -11 with a double blip or a single blip. If the nail comes in as a single blip, rescan from a different angle a double blip will sound, you know you have a nail. All mod clad on edge comes in at iron, low tone, easy to tell. Does very nice on small to large gold rings as well and even a small gold chain coiled up and a small 1/8" gold nugget.
What I like is the choice of single tone, two tone, 3 tones or 4 tones. At this point I may favor 2 tone. Audio coming out of the unit's speaker is very nice, when I use my Killer Bee headset the sounds are more crisp but, do not duplicate the lower base pitch of the F5's speaker as well. I'll have to pull out the headset I made using 600 ohm speakers that headset is just a bit bassier, will see if that produces sound similar to the F5's speaker.
First impressions at this point, glad I sold the Fisher ID Edge that I regretted selling. The F5 clicked with me right away. I'm also glad I chose the F5 instead of the Tesoro Golden Sabre.
Have to get it out in the field now.................