You know what I'm buying, you followed this thread long enough to know exactly which three detectors I own.
Only one, meets the above criteria, it's extremely durable, well thought out, and very very good at what it does,
Unfortunately it's not worth a dime anywhere near trash, but that's Ok.
If you want to dig it all it gives you that option.
It opened the world of gold prospecting to me and that's right what I needed.
Pulse induction has its place, and I don't feel that a $2300 it was at all overpriced.
Now the other two (one runs about $1000 retail the other $2500), are both also very capable, but both are strangely lacking in different ways
I modified the shaft on one of them using electrical PVC and an electrical hinge fitting.
now it folds, I don't have to drive a Cadillac or a pick up truck to take it wherever I'm going.
The alternative was taking it apart and putting it back together every time I used it. Or just leaving it in the backseat for the whole world to see.
Well thought out? Are you for real?
Do you ever actually use your equipment? Are you kidding me?
Who is the professor? Who is the brain surgeon who designed that?
None of you find this lacking?
None of you have asked yourselves, why does this thing in its standard form always have to be 5 feet long?
Its not a cheap tool. It cost a lot of money.
I didn't purchase it with discretionary income.
When I use it I'm on a mission.
I expect it to make sense. I expect the people that design and manufacture it to have more experience than I do.
Do you think at the manufactures level a remedy would've taken any effort at all if they actually had any respect for the end users?
Do you think they put a lot of thought into "a day in the life of" their customers??
Then why, please explain to me, do I have to carry it to some of the most remote places on earth, while all the while it measures over 5 feet long?
Are you kidding me?
Are you going to argue with me?
Now you're going to write something like "I like good beer"and then get another 37 likes
Well, in the meantime, no.
The equipment presently offered as standard state of the art by the major manufacturers in general is not well innovated, well thought out and well built and neither is yours.
It's generally overpriced and is lacking in many many ways,
For a few hundred dollars it wouldn't be, for $2500 yeah, it's lacking.
It is lacking intentionally. The manufacturers know that spending an extra dollar to highly improve the devices is not warranted and will simply detract $1 from their bottom line. Their customers wouldn't notice or appreciate the the improvements anyway.
Most of you are buying the ads and the hype, not the equipment.
