TXKajun
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Looks Like I'm Going Into a "Learning Curve"
Oh, man!! The Minelab Eureka Gold arrived and I made it home without having a heart attack or going crazy after Sweetie called me at work this afternoon and told me it was here finally!! AIIEEEEE!!!
One thing's for darn sure.....this baby is NOT gonna be a "turn on and go" machine! It's about orders of magnitude more complex than my little Ace 250.
It started with opening the box it was delivered in. Solidly taped together in a USPS Priority Mail labelled box, it required my knife and several minutes (it was WELL packed). *g* Then, opened the Minelab box ("Treasure Through Technology") and there's about a gazillion pieces! Ok, so it was only about 15 pieces, but compared to the Ace that had about 4 pieces, holy cow! Got out the manual and started reading and putting together. It only took about 15 or 20 minutes to assemble the Eureka, but it seemed like forever.
Then I figured, ok, I'll try turning it on, but didn't expect it to fire up like the Ace that came with batteries installed. Well, it went "BEEP" and fired right up!! YEEHAW! So I swept it over the concrete floor of our covered patio and it started singing like one of the better kids on the American Idol auditions (hey, it's a new season. Anyone else watch it??)!! LOL It's got tones and sounds like I've never heard! It's definitely gonna take a while to learn it's language. But dat's ok. I speak a bit of French, some German, a smattering of Spanish, a tad of Russian and can curse a word or 2 in Latvian...not to mention being able to mangle English. ROFL.
I took it out to the back yard (dark by now) along with a 1.5 gram gold sample and passed the detector over the gold. Kinda strange signals started sounding, but nothing near as strong as I figured. Drat! So I go back onto the patio and read about ground balancing. Go back out to the back yard and tried ground balancing, then detecting the gold sample again. Drat! Still not as strong as I think it should be. I toss down a quarter, pass the detector over it and SHAZAMMM!! Darn near blew my eardrums out! LOL
Anywho, I called Rob (of Rob's Detector Sales, who I bought the machine from) and let him know it arrived. He gave me some hints and tips, but mostly said "Read the manual, test it out again and again and learn what it's telling you." He said call anytime with questions.
Sooooooo, long story short, it's gonna take a bit of work with this sweet detector to get it going and telling me stuff I can understand, especially gold-nugget-finding-related stuff. Not a real surprise. If anyone has any tips or helpful info, I'd sure appreciate either a response in the forum or a PM.
I'll keep ya'll posted.
HH, ya'll!
Oh, man!! The Minelab Eureka Gold arrived and I made it home without having a heart attack or going crazy after Sweetie called me at work this afternoon and told me it was here finally!! AIIEEEEE!!!
One thing's for darn sure.....this baby is NOT gonna be a "turn on and go" machine! It's about orders of magnitude more complex than my little Ace 250.
It started with opening the box it was delivered in. Solidly taped together in a USPS Priority Mail labelled box, it required my knife and several minutes (it was WELL packed). *g* Then, opened the Minelab box ("Treasure Through Technology") and there's about a gazillion pieces! Ok, so it was only about 15 pieces, but compared to the Ace that had about 4 pieces, holy cow! Got out the manual and started reading and putting together. It only took about 15 or 20 minutes to assemble the Eureka, but it seemed like forever.
Then I figured, ok, I'll try turning it on, but didn't expect it to fire up like the Ace that came with batteries installed. Well, it went "BEEP" and fired right up!! YEEHAW! So I swept it over the concrete floor of our covered patio and it started singing like one of the better kids on the American Idol auditions (hey, it's a new season. Anyone else watch it??)!! LOL It's got tones and sounds like I've never heard! It's definitely gonna take a while to learn it's language. But dat's ok. I speak a bit of French, some German, a smattering of Spanish, a tad of Russian and can curse a word or 2 in Latvian...not to mention being able to mangle English. ROFL.
I took it out to the back yard (dark by now) along with a 1.5 gram gold sample and passed the detector over the gold. Kinda strange signals started sounding, but nothing near as strong as I figured. Drat! So I go back onto the patio and read about ground balancing. Go back out to the back yard and tried ground balancing, then detecting the gold sample again. Drat! Still not as strong as I think it should be. I toss down a quarter, pass the detector over it and SHAZAMMM!! Darn near blew my eardrums out! LOL
Anywho, I called Rob (of Rob's Detector Sales, who I bought the machine from) and let him know it arrived. He gave me some hints and tips, but mostly said "Read the manual, test it out again and again and learn what it's telling you." He said call anytime with questions.
Sooooooo, long story short, it's gonna take a bit of work with this sweet detector to get it going and telling me stuff I can understand, especially gold-nugget-finding-related stuff. Not a real surprise. If anyone has any tips or helpful info, I'd sure appreciate either a response in the forum or a PM.
I'll keep ya'll posted.
HH, ya'll!
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So not a total loss. Now, hopefully, I can remember to remember all the things I forgot or forgot to do 1st time out! I think I may start making a list (lists are our friends! LOL) and include the info you so generously shared. Many many thanks!
