Very impressive machine for the price

[markg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD8zavhf-f0

 

[tabman]

Very informative video. Thanks for sharing.

tabman

 

[SkiWhiz]

Nice video Mark, the wife and I each had one last year, we was in need for some $$$ so we sold them. Liked them so much I am ordering one tomorrow, got a surprise check in the mail today (some funds that they held from our last years tax return). Not only are they a good detector they are alot of fun to use.

 

[Dave J.]

Jorge developed the Eurotek. He's gotten pretty darn good at beeper engineering, my role was basically that of occasional advisor.

Yesterday we got dragged into a marketing dept. "problem". A prominent customer had registered a concern that a competitor's machine in the same price range had bested the Eurotek slightly in a particular test which although not literally an "air test", was nearly the equivalent. This same customer admitted that the Eurotek knocked the socks off the competitor's machine when it comes to buried targets esp. in trashy areas. Marketing dept. wanted to know how in one particular air test, the competitor's machine had bested (slightly) the Eurotek.

I'd forgotten what was in the Eurotek software, my first explanation of the little embarassment was wrong. Yi, a relatively new engineer who is familiar with the platform, plowed through the code and explained to me what was actually in there. Rebooting my memory of what we'd done, gave me the opportunity to think through again why we'd done it that way, which I was now able to explain to Yi.

In air testing we were not able to duplicate the little embarrassment that the customer had encountered, but our test conditions were not identical and we can't replicate the customer's test conditions.

The bottom line was that the software and hardware of this platform were not designed to deliver the world's most impressive air test, it was all designed to work well under trashy conditions. And the engineering effort succeeded: its performance "in the ground" is often compared to machines costing 2-3 times as much.

--Dave J.

 

[SkiWhiz]

Jorge developed the Eurotek. He's gotten pretty darn good at beeper engineering, my role was basically that of occasional advisor.

Yesterday we got dragged into a marketing dept. "problem". A prominent customer had registered a concern that a competitor's machine in the same price range had bested the Eurotek slightly in a particular test which although not literally an "air test", was nearly the equivalent. This same customer admitted that the Eurotek knocked the socks off the competitor's machine when it comes to buried targets esp. in trashy areas. Marketing dept. wanted to know how in one particular air test, the competitor's machine had bested (slightly) the Eurotek.

I'd forgotten what was in the Eurotek software, my first explanation of the little embarassment was wrong. Yi, a relatively new engineer who is familiar with the platform, plowed through the code and explained to me what was actually in there. Rebooting my memory of what we'd done, gave me the opportunity to think through again why we'd done it that way, which I was now able to explain to Yi.

In air testing we were not able to duplicate the little embarrassment that the customer had encountered, but our test conditions were not identical and we can't replicate the customer's test conditions.

The bottom line was that the software and hardware of this platform were not designed to deliver the world's most impressive air test, it was all designed to work well under trashy conditions. And the engineering effort succeeded: its performance "in the ground" is often compared to machines costing 2-3 times as much.

--Dave J.

Dave, that's a good thing because believe it or not most of my better finds have been in the ground not in the air, lol. Whatever you & Jorge did when you "built" the Eurotek you did it well. I thank you's for producing such a good working affordable detector.

 

[rubydot]

I've got a friend who believes it is the deepest detector in the price range. He seems to know a lot about the machine and states the 11" DD coil way outperforms the stock concentric coil. Thanks for taking the time to produce a very nice video.

 

[Mark in NC]

n/t

 

[mudpuppy]

Nice work! I like that soft iron audio feature...really a good vid, thank you!
Mud

 

[Furious T]

I said in a review I did last year that the Eurotek Pro is more than just a machine for beginners, or a machine just to have as a back-up. Having now used it on and off for 6 or 7 months I would qualify the word "more" by substituting "far more".

 

[Hank68]

Thanks for the video!

 

[pine3874]

Can't think of any other detector that can beat the Eurtotek Pro in the price to performance category. It is perfectly balanced with the 8" coil and is really a lot of fun to use.

 

[jiamin770316]

bnbg

 

[Hank68]

Yep it's a fantastic machine I love the tones ,I'm not bombarded with tones very nice arrangement !!