RavRad
Active member
Good Morning All,
Yesterday FEDEX dropped off a new Teknetics Patriot, and quickly threw it together and ran out to the test garden. So far as First Texas is concerned, I previously ran an F75 LTD 2 for a season (loved it to death, sold it to help start a business), and currently have an Omega 8000 v4 and Eurotek.
First impression is that either First Texas completely solved their EMI problems, or I have a factory freak detector. I first kicked it on in the house which should have thrown the detector in a schizophrenic fit, but in the default program, it stayed completely quiet wearing the stock coil. Took it out to the test garden and didn't get my first hint of interference until sensitivity crossed over 85 with threshold set at -2, and this with my heat pump chugging away 20 feet away. The F75 with DST would go bananas until sensitivity was dropped down below 30.
Hit everything in the test garden (deepest target is 12") pretty easy and solid. Like all my other First Texas machines, VDI can be jumpy but I've found that to be a bonus of sorts. I second guess less on the VDI and more let the tones do the talking while figuring out the depth and shape of the target. I think that's why my F75 was a gold ring vacuum, easily paying for itself in less than a month.
Will be taking it out today for a thorough workout, using both the stock coil and the Cors Fortune/NEL Sharpshooter. Overall I'm super impressed from the start, even though I plan on picking up an F75+ package (I love the trigger), I think this is definitely a keeper.
Yesterday FEDEX dropped off a new Teknetics Patriot, and quickly threw it together and ran out to the test garden. So far as First Texas is concerned, I previously ran an F75 LTD 2 for a season (loved it to death, sold it to help start a business), and currently have an Omega 8000 v4 and Eurotek.
First impression is that either First Texas completely solved their EMI problems, or I have a factory freak detector. I first kicked it on in the house which should have thrown the detector in a schizophrenic fit, but in the default program, it stayed completely quiet wearing the stock coil. Took it out to the test garden and didn't get my first hint of interference until sensitivity crossed over 85 with threshold set at -2, and this with my heat pump chugging away 20 feet away. The F75 with DST would go bananas until sensitivity was dropped down below 30.
Hit everything in the test garden (deepest target is 12") pretty easy and solid. Like all my other First Texas machines, VDI can be jumpy but I've found that to be a bonus of sorts. I second guess less on the VDI and more let the tones do the talking while figuring out the depth and shape of the target. I think that's why my F75 was a gold ring vacuum, easily paying for itself in less than a month.
Will be taking it out today for a thorough workout, using both the stock coil and the Cors Fortune/NEL Sharpshooter. Overall I'm super impressed from the start, even though I plan on picking up an F75+ package (I love the trigger), I think this is definitely a keeper.