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Documentation
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WaterWalker
Well-known member
Download the file as a PDF file and then print out the pages you might need. Or view the manual off line on a smartphone.
Always Curious
New member
Have to agree it is cheap of Minelab not to include a printed manual. I don't care that it is possible to print out the sheets from the online .pdf file; it just isn't the same as having a printed, bound manual to thumb through.
oltimer1940
Member
I think I understand the non-inclusion of the manual. Just think of the cost and time involved in printing/updaing a detailed manual using all of the many languages where Minelab products are sold. I certainly would be reluctant to do that, especially since a wide portion of the world has internet availability and updating is faster. Just my 2 cents.
Always Curious
New member
oltimer1940 said:I think I understand the non-inclusion of the manual. Just think of the cost and time involved in printing/updaing a detailed manual using all of the many languages where Minelab products are sold. I certainly would be reluctant to do that, especially since a wide portion of the world has internet availability and updating is faster. Just my 2 cents.
It's easy and cheaper than ever before in history for a company to typeset and print manuals. Minelab is probably saving something like fifty cents ($0.50), if even that, by not including a manual. In fact, it already does the typesetting for the .pdf online manual; all it would need to do is send the files to its printshop. Maybe I'll do the same thing, but if I do, having a one-off printed and bound is going to cost me a lot more than fifty cents. Irritating.
WaterWalker
Well-known member
Who reads a manual anyway? 
I would rather a charger or waterproof headphones. Another coil?
What if you don't own a computer, how do you register your new detector or read the manual?
Amazing that we have screen protectors in 17 languages!
You have to admit the packaging is pretty darn good.
let alone the Equinox itself.
Now lets read and play with the detector at home, then hit that worked out area.
I would rather a charger or waterproof headphones. Another coil?What if you don't own a computer, how do you register your new detector or read the manual?
Amazing that we have screen protectors in 17 languages!
You have to admit the packaging is pretty darn good.
let alone the Equinox itself. Now lets read and play with the detector at home, then hit that worked out area.
Jason in Enid
Active member
Always Curious said:I think I understand the non-inclusion of the manual. Just think of the cost and time involved in printing/updaing a detailed manual using all of the many languages where Minelab products are sold. I certainly would be reluctant to do that, especially since a wide portion of the world has internet availability and updating is faster. Just my 2 cents.
It's easy and cheaper than ever before in history for a company to typeset and print manuals. Minelab is probably saving something like fifty cents ($0.50), if even that, by not including a manual. In fact, it already does the typesetting for the .pdf online manual; all it would need to do is send the files to its printshop. Maybe I'll do the same thing, but if I do, having a one-off printed and bound is going to cost me a lot more than fifty cents. Irritating.
You are ignoring the realities of the situation. Minelab is an international company with off-shore manufacturing and world-wide distribution. Look at how many screen protectors they included! Now imagine that many full manuals in EVERY box. Not only is that a huge manufacturing cost, it adds to weight, it adds to shipping cost and box size. Not to say anything of the huge amount of waste of everyone throwing away all those extra manuals.
Face it, metal detecting long ago stopped being an American hobby with American manufacturers only selling detectors in America.
Jason in Enid said:
Did you get quick-start guides in 17 languages, as well?
I only got two.
Two full manuals would add about an ounce and a half...roughly...on good paper stock.
BTW, that's the way most Japanese, Swedish, German, and Swiss high-end camera product (and some watch) manufacturers do it...2 sets of manuals per product.
WaterWalker said:
My brain doesn't work that way, (with reference manuals). If yours does, I applaud you.
I need to be able to quickly flip through, jump from front to back, and skim...all the while holding my place. (Not to mention making notes in the margins.)
It's a habit/technique I learned over many years when my job depended on finding the information (in reference manuals) I needed in the fastest, most efficient manner possible.
I'm sure I could plod through a pdf on my iPhone, but to me, that would be like running uphill in a bear costume while wearing swim fins!
But that may just be me.
HH,
mike
brother steve
Member
trojdor said:Or view the manual off line on a smartphone.
My brain doesn't work that way, (with reference manuals). If yours does, I applaud you.
I need to be able to quickly flip through, jump from front to back, and skim...all the while holding my place. (Not to mention making notes in the margins.)
It's a habit/technique I learned over many years when my job depended on finding the information I needed in the fastest, most efficient manner possible.
I'm sure I could plod through a pdf on my iPhone, but to me, that would be like running uphill in a bear costume while wearing swim fins!
But that may just be me.
HH,
mike
ME too! I need to digest it slowly
Spot on, pass the paper. Some things are just easier to do with a quality printed manual. Try working on a complex piece of electronics
like a TV-DVD combo. You can spend half a day navigating on fiche or a PDF for a simple problem. One of the reasons I left the
biz & stuff became disposable.
As far as languages go English covers US, Can, UK, Ind, Aus, NZ & more. Most in Europe & Russia can speak it to. Add Spanish
& french & you got most the world covered.
Who here would NOT buy an EQ if it costs 2% more to include a nice manual ?
HH
Tom
LFOD !
like a TV-DVD combo. You can spend half a day navigating on fiche or a PDF for a simple problem. One of the reasons I left the
biz & stuff became disposable.
As far as languages go English covers US, Can, UK, Ind, Aus, NZ & more. Most in Europe & Russia can speak it to. Add Spanish
& french & you got most the world covered.
Who here would NOT buy an EQ if it costs 2% more to include a nice manual ?
HH
Tom
LFOD !
trojdor said:Or view the manual off line on a smartphone.
My brain doesn't work that way, (with reference manuals). If yours does, I applaud you.
I need to be able to quickly flip through, jump from front to back, and skim...all the while holding my place. (Not to mention making notes in the margins.)
It's a habit/technique I learned over many years when my job depended on finding the information (in reference manuals) I needed in the fastest, most efficient manner possible.
I'm sure I could plod through a pdf on my iPhone, but to me, that would be like running uphill in a bear costume while wearing swim fins!
But that may just be me.
HH,
mike
Always Curious
New member
Sure, I'd pay for the manual; but I think it would only add a dollar to the cost for Minelab, if even that. I can't read manuals on my cell phone, and it's awkward to do it on my computer. I may have Kinkos print out and bind a manual for me, but unfortunately that is sure to cost me a lot more than it would have cost Minelab, since it's a one-off, not to mention my time. Really, really cheap of any company to sell something costing the better part of a thousand dollars without including a manual--I'm sorry, but that's just the truth as I see it.
WaterWalker
Well-known member
I got the important operations pages down to 24 of the 69 in the manual. I then printed them out 2 per page front and back. Total of 6 pages 8 1/ X 11 to carry around in the car. They would be useless in the water. If you can't print them at home, have them printed in black and white only, staple and forego the fancy binding and save a couple of bucks for coffee or have two copies printed. The average detectorist more than likely will not need to reference the manual after a couple of months of hard use. Still it is nice to have one.