Excal VS Infinium

[birdman]

I have an excal and love it for the beach but I know it has a hard time picking up small gold chains. I have heard that the infinium will pick up small chains .I am just wondering if it is on the same level as the excal in other areas. The excal loves gold,goes deep and is great on beaches loaded with iron and also is very stable.
Has anyone used both?

[Sandman]

Relax, the Infinium has a hard time also picking up the same thin gold chains. As for comparing them otherwise, the Infinium LS has more depth but it responds well to small iron like hair pins while the Excal is shallower with the same size coils but has better disc. With the Excal's muilti tones targets can be ID'ed easier.

[scott565]

Birdman:
If you are detecting an area that has even moderate amount of iron objects - even small ones, the Infinium will probably be frustrating.
Being a PI, it will go a good bit deeper than the Excal, but it will scream out at the smallest iron - think single rusty staples.
Yes, there are plenty of good finds made with the Infinium, I own one and like it, but you will probably be more productive overall with the Excal if you really need a discriminator. For example, on a freshwater lake, there is often so much iron debris that I could not swing the coil on one direction without getting multiple hits. Very difficult to spend time trying to ID iron or use a "dig-em-all" approach in an environment like that. There are lots of posts on these forums about both the Excal and Infinium, do a bit of searching and you should get some more information that you may find useful - perhaps you can even connect with a TNet member that owns one and try it out.
HH.
-Scott

[birdman]

Good information. I was told that the infinum was a PI unit with discrimination . Wrong information I guess. Looks like I will not need to buy another water machine any time soon.

[Smudge]

I would not trade an excal for an infinium.

[Sandman]

Good information. I was told that the infinum was a PI unit with discrimination . Looks like I will not need to buy another water machine any time soon.

Oh it does have some discrimination in that some small iron makes a funny sound and other times it makes a regular "beep." It comes down like everything to learning your detector. Worst that can come of it is you could dig deep holes and get tired before you sweep over that shallow ring.

[OBN]

Have both and each has it's place. In the Bay (calm salty waters). infinium works great but near the salty ocean beachs she falses alot. If your hunting a beach with lots of compitition, I would go for a backup excal, if you have a beach that's all yours, and like to spend time digging everything..Ls is tuff at first but it grows on ya.....

I was told that the infinum was a PI unit with discrimination

it does but you end up digging just about everything...hi/lo lo/hi

[birdman]

Nice videos! Gives me the fever for sure. I would not sell my excal for anything,I was just thinking about the Infinium for small gold chains and what not. Overseas the beaches were litered with sparkler wires and the excal would completely ignore them. Awesome machine.

[OBN]

Try this on your small gold chain..lower your senstivity to as low as it will go, think 4 o'clock? Then see if you can get that chain..that's in discriminate, and you have to swing somewhat slower then normal. When I first got the excalibur 800, I did find several small chains/wo pendent and I do think this is the reason. What is happening is when you have your sensitivity...run up around 12, you are covering up that signal with ground noise, the coil is detecting the matrix of the sand, and the chain..but you can't hear it cause she's under the line..this is on the beach and wet sand. I have since switched to hunting in PP, sensitivity cranked up to 9-10, and a doc's audio amp to pull up the faint's that are covered by the threshold of PP/AM..I do miss the small gold but hitting the bigger gold is what I'm after now. You know the feel, I seen your tour over in Korea..Man, what a hunters dream...

Doc's amp, going to do a how to video someday on the amp..last week she was hitting at 2 feet on some coins, with the amp, and the WOT, the diablo scoop sure helped on those deep targets last week

Old video..10inch coil, amp, sens..high, PP mode

[birdman]

OldeBeechnut,fantastic video,really enjoyed it.