Hsjrev
You got it right. I researched for months trying to find the best bang for the buck and eventually stumbled upon the $59 one at Amazon.com.
As many of you already know, I have somewhere between zero and few opinions on anything and I don't post my opinions either. I tolerate people's opinions primarily due to being understanding of those who rely primarily on their own personal "feelings", instead of dealing with facts, but that's the only reason I tolerate it. I don't bore people with my emotions or my gut feelings either. I stay as strictly to the facts as I humanly can.
The guts inside the cheapie I speak of are surprizingly similar to the Tesoro Compadre's circuitry but has a slight bit less voltage sending and receiving. This roughly equates to somewhere between 1/2" to 1" less depth than the Compadre, but it's IDEAL for small kids due to it's weight. Additionally, it makes it very responsive to the real tiny objects and those of lower conductivity too. I can not find anything else as light in weight nor easier to operate as that little "China junk" detector. It even has a volume and sensitivity control, and both of them work quite well too. It even has a facade meter, one that swings no matter if you find a needle or a trash can lid, but kids like the meter so that's the only reason that it's there. My one very slightweight 36 year old daughter liked it more than any other detector I have shown her. Her diminutive daughter age 3 and at at a very tiny 30 pounds can use it, but my Prism 3 is too heavy for her and so is an Ace 250 and the F-2. She might be able to handle a Compadre but she is just too small to carry such a heavy thing, and when you do the math, this sort of starts making a bit of sense too.
Here it is in a nutshell: I'll avoid using Set Theory or any complicated or linear algebra, but if you want it, PM me and maybe I'll bore you to tears with all kinds of formulas and other unnecessary BS that would waste everybody's time on this post.
At 30 pounds, a 1.5 lb detector is at a ratio of (20 to 1) for a 30 pound girl, or, 5% of her body weight
At 30 pounds, a 2.2 pound detector is a ratio of (13.6 to 1) for 7.3% of her body weight
At 30 pounds, a 3.0 pound detector would hit a whopping 10% of her body weight
At my 210 pounds, an easily carried ratio of (140 to 1) for a 1.5 pound detector, but to equal the massive weight ratio of the 2.2 pound detector compared to what the little 30 pound girl has to carry.. I would be using a $$%*@# detector that weighed in at a massive 14.7 pounds!
An equality ratio of a 3 pound detector for a 30 pound girl would have to weigh 21 enormous pounds for me at my 210 pounds!
Now who in Hades would want to use a detector that weighed that much? I may not be the smartest person on the planet, but I'm not the stupidest either.
So why would someone buy a detector that weighs enough to cause someone to have to be arrested for child abuse?
Not me.
Go with the lightest of all detectors, and one that works and has been proven by someone or some ones who know a bit about it and won't BS anybody with just their opinions and liberal-group-rhetoric or unfounded BS. And when the kids get to be around half my weight get him or her one that weighs half what another detector weighs. It's in the math. And the little cheapie works super well too, and a lot better than one could "feel".
'Nuf said
Have a pleasant day all.
EasyMoney
