AT Pro...US vs CAN version

[rick (nova scotia)]

Well I won't be able to get my hands on one till the new year. Little matter, the season is shot here anyway.
This is what I'm thinking; If the canadian version is going to pick up our modern (about 2000 and newer) iron core coins, surely that is going to diminish it's large iron discrimination abilities ? Frankly if I wanted to find 10 year old coins at a 20 year old site at 4 inches, I could do so with a 200 dollar detector.nuff said.

I want this machine for older, deeper stuff, and it's biger / thick iron discrimination. I would gladly pass by a 2005 quarter in those older sites, if one was there. So I "think" the US version is going to be the better machine, given what "I" want one for. Any thoughts ?

Thanks,
Rick

 

[Willee - Texas]

Well I won't be able to get my hands on one till the new year. Little matter, the season is shot here anyway.
This is what I'm thinking; If the canadian version is going to pick up our modern (about 2000 and newer) iron core coins, surely that is going to diminish it's large iron discrimination abilities ? Frankly if I wanted to find 10 year old coins at a 20 year old site at 4 inches, I could do so with a 200 dollar detector.nuff said.

I want this machine for older, deeper stuff, and it's biger / thick iron discrimination. I would gladly pass by a 2005 quarter in those older sites, if one was there. So I "think" the US version is going to be the better machine, given what "I" want one for. Any thoughts ?

Thanks,
Rick

Rick, you say nuff said ... but you continue.

This detector is so new I dont think there is enough field use information about it to assume much of anything yet.
I do know the iron rejection is adjustable so that should not be a problem.
I do know it works very well in wet salt sand.
I do know it air checks further out than most detectors.
My use at the beach seem to indicate it will detect as deep as a Tejon ... but that has yet to be proven.
It does have sensitivity to small gold items that is better than most (other than the gold detectors).

Did you really expect this under $600 detector to outperform a $1500 E-Trac or a $1200 F75 LTD or any PI?
Perhaps it can ... I dont expect it to ... but who knows ... only time in the field will show its shortcomings.
I look forward to all the reports this summer from our Canadian friends using this new detector.

 

[rick (nova scotia)]

Well I won't be able to get my hands on one till the new year. Little matter, the season is shot here anyway.
This is what I'm thinking; If the canadian version is going to pick up our modern (about 2000 and newer) iron core coins, surely that is going to diminish it's large iron discrimination abilities ? Frankly if I wanted to find 10 year old coins at a 20 year old site at 4 inches, I could do so with a 200 dollar detector.nuff said.

I want this machine for older, deeper stuff, and it's biger / thick iron discrimination. I would gladly pass by a 2005 quarter in those older sites, if one was there. So I "think" the US version is going to be the better machine, given what "I" want one for. Any thoughts ?

Thanks,
Rick

Rick, you say nuff said ... but you continue.

This detector is so new I dont think there is enough field use information about it to assume much of anything yet.
I do know the iron rejection is adjustable so that should not be a problem.
I do know it works very well in wet salt sand.
I do know it air checks further out than most detectors.
My use at the beach seem to indicate it will detect as deep as a Tejon ... but that has yet to be proven.
It does have sensitivity to small gold items that is better than most (other than the gold detectors).

Did you really expect this under $600 detector to outperform a $1500 E-Trac or a $1200 F75 LTD or any PI?
Perhaps it can ... I dont expect it to ... but who knows ... only time in the field will show its shortcomings.
I look forward to all the reports this summer from our Canadian friends using this new detector.

I did not mention expectations of outperforming ANY other detector, don't know where you got that.
Maybe I should have just asked; If the canadian version is able to detect iron core coins, will that make it less effective at iron discrimination in general ?
Your probably right, in that it is too early to ask that type of question. I'll try somewhere else, and if I get a straight answer, will add here.

 

[Uncle Willy]

The proof will be in the pudding when enough people in enough places check it out for a long period of time.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

And then again it could turn out like the 250 - the surprise of the year. It just hasn't been used by enough people ( especially professionals ) in enough places for enough time. It takes a multitude of hard hours in the field to fully familiarize yourself with a totally new machine. Every totally new model of any kind has a world of undiscovered quirks that even the engineers miss or never have the time to check.

Every new model produces a trick or two that the builders were totally unaware of and is stumbled upon by a new user or a field tester. I know when I test a new unit I'm always searching for those unknown quirks that may just be lurking out of sight. I'm sure as sophisticated as the AT is that it probably harbors a few. So it will all come out in the wash eventually.

Bill