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Eric,
I've been gone for 10 days hunting diamonds, forgive the late reply:
I hunt in Florida, am testing the Infinium right now. The silica sands I test in are easy pickings for a pulse unit of any stripe, but I have hunted the western states with a Minelab 2200D, (Goldbug II and Whites MXT as well). I use/test a lot of units from a user standpoint on anything and everything. While frequencies, pulses, etc., etc., are all great discussions and have their place (right here on this forum) -- none of that matters in the real world if the unit is to heavy or to long or to confusing to be practical. Seems you had that figured out for quite some time now. One of the things that made that earlier underwater unit so great was the simple diving shaft that kept it really short, so the diver could wave the detector and fan sand (or use the airlift) without having to back away from the target (difficult underwater with gear). So not only was the SH great, but somebody who understood diving and working underwater designed the shaft as well (best of both worlds). Garrett has got away from that with the Infinium (although if you have a SH you can remount it with that short shaft and the mono coil -- but you shouldn't have to -- they should have thought of this from the get-go).
Have not played with any of your newer units, but, I will say this from where I'm at with the Infinium right now -- there is one more switch needed -- iron cancellation -- to take that particular unit to its full potential. They already have the tone meter, and if they simply added a second circuit so that tone = null = no tone, they'd have got things very close to perfection for the real world. You could then seek all targets (high or low tone), seek iron (low tone), seek gold/platinum/and wouldn't you know it -- aluminum pull tabs -- with high tone, or cancel iron out completely with the switch (ala fulltime Minelab). Hopefully someone will add something like this to a tone ID system in the future -- I'll sure promote it when they do!
I've been gone for 10 days hunting diamonds, forgive the late reply:
I hunt in Florida, am testing the Infinium right now. The silica sands I test in are easy pickings for a pulse unit of any stripe, but I have hunted the western states with a Minelab 2200D, (Goldbug II and Whites MXT as well). I use/test a lot of units from a user standpoint on anything and everything. While frequencies, pulses, etc., etc., are all great discussions and have their place (right here on this forum) -- none of that matters in the real world if the unit is to heavy or to long or to confusing to be practical. Seems you had that figured out for quite some time now. One of the things that made that earlier underwater unit so great was the simple diving shaft that kept it really short, so the diver could wave the detector and fan sand (or use the airlift) without having to back away from the target (difficult underwater with gear). So not only was the SH great, but somebody who understood diving and working underwater designed the shaft as well (best of both worlds). Garrett has got away from that with the Infinium (although if you have a SH you can remount it with that short shaft and the mono coil -- but you shouldn't have to -- they should have thought of this from the get-go).
Have not played with any of your newer units, but, I will say this from where I'm at with the Infinium right now -- there is one more switch needed -- iron cancellation -- to take that particular unit to its full potential. They already have the tone meter, and if they simply added a second circuit so that tone = null = no tone, they'd have got things very close to perfection for the real world. You could then seek all targets (high or low tone), seek iron (low tone), seek gold/platinum/and wouldn't you know it -- aluminum pull tabs -- with high tone, or cancel iron out completely with the switch (ala fulltime Minelab). Hopefully someone will add something like this to a tone ID system in the future -- I'll sure promote it when they do!