TDI Beachhunter VS Garrett sea hunter

[persiatic]

HI guys!
I have a Garrett sea hunter with the big coil which found me a lot of goodies in the salt water. I havn't find any comparisson between the sea hunter and TDI beachhunter regarding the depth anywhere.Have anybody any clues? I have have in my minde for a long time to buy a TDI but Fisher impulse aq has stoped me doing that. Sometimes i'm getting a super faint almost non hearable signal(deep) which is very easy to miss,how about the TDI in this situation? Cheers

 

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[OBN]

I had the TDI in my sights but let it go, for now. Hopefully see the "AQ" before spring.

On the compare, not sure. Good Luck!

 

[Octopulse]

I used to run the Seahunter with the larger coil......nice detector but the TDIBH is in another league. A 12” deep target will be seen an extra 2” to 3” deeper with the TDIBH with the stock battery pack......and another couple inches deeper again running the 14.8v battery pack. This is my first hand experience.
I hope this helps
Tony

 

[persiatic]

Thanks OBN you are my favorite Hunter. I'm hoping too having AQ before Christmas.The sea Hunter has tendency to miss super faint targets if you don't have a pro ears.

 

[persiatic]

Hookahforgold, I have no problem worth depth,it is very deep machine,some super faint signal is easy to miss because you just get interruption in threshold not the sound.I see that the TDI have actually sound compare to sees Hunter threshold which maybe you can hear deep targets better

 

[Octopulse]

Hookahforgold, I have no problem worth depth,it is very deep machine,some super faint signal is easy to miss because you just get interruption in threshold not the sound.I see that the TDI have actually sound compare to sees Hunter threshold which maybe you can hear deep targets better

A faint Sea Hunter signal will be an obvious TDIBH signal

 

[OBN]

A faint Sea Hunter signal will be an obvious TDIBH signal

I seen a guy over in the Uk that did a TDI Pro....I fell in love...see if I can find the picture

 

[Irishgoldhound]

Wow! What is that!

 

[persiatic]

i have a big area in the water full of small and big iron pieces scattered around and i managed to pull out some gold rings during some years and i know there is still more gold.Most of the time i dont even dare to aproach the area because of the amount of iron. Therfore Fisher impulse aq can maybe help in this sitution,i dont know,but i saw a video demonstrating a TDI finding gold ring under nails like AQ.Can TDI beachhunter help me in this situation too??

 

[OBN]

i have a big area in the water full of small and big iron pieces scattered around and i managed to pull out some gold rings during some years and i know there is still more gold.Most of the time i dont even dare to aproach the area because of the amount of iron. Therfore Fisher impulse aq can maybe help in this sitution,i dont know,but i saw a video demonstrating a TDI finding gold ring under nails like AQ.Can TDI beachhunter help me in this situation too??

I think your better off waiting for the "AQ" ..........seems to be easier to get thru tough area's like that. Me, I am looking for raw depth...and smaller gold. But If I don't see the "AQ" by next May I may go TDI BH...then upgrade the battery pack to a LiPo 16.8.

 

[persiatic]

Thanks for the reply OBN ! by the way, regarding the test Whites doing with the TDI BH new coil,do you know if its a bigger coil or smaller? any benefits either those coils compare to currently 12 coil?

 

[chub]

I think the Fisher AQ is just a pipe dream. I wish it wasnt but ....

chub

 

[Octopulse]

Let’s hope the AQ will be realised.......and hopefully soon.

 

[dewcon4414]

Chub..... i dont think so. Its tied to the TERRA .... i think Fisher needs both. I believe water hunting needs this step as well. We need the competition to look at getting more depth in the salt water..... without people discounting the normal ... i dont want to dig it all, something you do with a PI and why most use VLFs. If we can get them started doing disc PIs who knows where that might go. All that said thou...... i believe there maybe hold ups which may keep us from seeing it by Christmas. IF its a coil issue ....making them all by hand or it NOT wanting to run at 7uS in the salt..... we might see fewer available. That of course would make them pricy. Then most of us would set back ... watch... and listen to just how well they disc and run. If you have to turn them up ...of you loose a ton of depth when in disc ..... could be only the experience full time hunters would grab um up...... others wouldnt find the price worth the advantage.

Joe..... i know the FCC has limits on freq... ya think these battery upgrades violate that? NOT that the FCC would coming running out on the beach after you lol.

 

[SurgTech57]

Joe I can't begin to imagine you going from your Excal II to anything else.

 

[gazw]

I seen a guy over in the Uk that did a TDI Pro....I fell in love...see if I can find the picture

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I saw that facebook post as well Joe, It has a mono coil and 8us delay i believe!

 

[BeachBunnyTRHunter]

I used to run the Seahunter with the larger coil......nice detector but the TDIBH is in another league. A 12” deep target will be seen an extra 2” to 3” deeper with the TDIBH with the stock battery pack......and another couple inches deeper again running the 14.8v battery pack. This is my first hand experience.
I hope this helps
Tony

I have both detectors and I think your comments are correct. I am very nervous about taking the TDI Beach Hunter into the water because there are rumors that it does leak and I was warned by the previous owner that I could do anything I wanted with the detector but not get it completely submerged in the water. What is your experience? Thanks, Brittany.

 

[Slimpickins]

Does the coil on the TDI float like the coil on the Dual Field? If so, is there any coil that doesn't float that would work? That's the only drawback on using it in the water as you constantly have to push on it. If there isn't any substitute coil, I'll get the Anderson straight shaft as the S-rod is ergonomically awful. It's unfortunate that someone in the Whites family couldn't keep Whites Electronics in business.

 

[1LWiL15]

HI guys!
I have a Garrett sea hunter with the big coil which found me a lot of goodies in the salt water. I havn't find any comparisson between the sea hunter and TDI beachhunter regarding the depth anywhere.Have anybody any clues? I have have in my minde for a long time to buy a TDI but Fisher impulse aq has stoped me doing that. Sometimes i'm getting a super faint almost non hearable signal(deep) which is very easy to miss,how about the TDI in this situation? Cheers

TDI all day.

 

[BeachBunnyTRHunter]

I have both detectors and I think your comments are correct. I am very nervous about taking the TDI Beach Hunter into the water because there are rumors that it does leak and I was warned by the previous owner that I could do anything I wanted with the detector but not get it completely submerged in the water. What is your experience? Thanks, Brittany.

There are now 3000 mah AA batteries available that put out 1.7v, and when multiplied by 8 gets you pretty close to 14.8v, good enough for now. I am testing the benefits of these high output AA cells.