Hi all. The Excalibur arrived yesterday just before I left home for my trip, which allowed me to bring it with me. Assembled it in the hotel room last night with the straight shaft assembly with hopes I could sneek out after work this evening for a hour or so. After work today, found a state park beach about 40 minutes away. Made the trip and tried out the Excal for about a hour. Here are my first impressions.
Its heavier than I expected. Even with the straight shaft this thing is alot heavier than the DFX I am used to swinging. I think it may help once I get a strap for the arm cuff. I do not understand why they do not include that with the shaft assembly?. Guess I'll have to call them up when I get back and see whats up with that.
Detector seemed to work very well. Did not hit the water with it but worked the wet and dry sand and it seemed to perform very well. The tone ID is a little different than I expected and will take a little time to get used to. I left the Disc at 1 and dug everything to get a feel for it. I think I will really like it once I get used to all the tones.
This thing goes deep. I first ran in Auto but then switched to manual and adjusted the sens just a little below half way. Got a good sounding signal and started scooping. Took 3 scoops out and signal was getting louder and still down there. Thought for sure I had a pop can. Finally at about 12-14" out popped a quarter. That is the deepest I think I have every dug one. Nice!!
Was able to crank the sens almost all the way up without falsing. Threshold was very stable and would only change when it would null over iron then come back with a lower tone, which I understand indicated what type of metal it discriminated out. Thats kind of neat. Pinpointing with the 10" coil was easier than I expected.
In roughly a hour, didn't find anything spectacular. Found .97 cents in clad and one junk ear ring. Can't wait to get this thing in the water and give it a real run for the money(or Gold).
HH
Gary
Its heavier than I expected. Even with the straight shaft this thing is alot heavier than the DFX I am used to swinging. I think it may help once I get a strap for the arm cuff. I do not understand why they do not include that with the shaft assembly?. Guess I'll have to call them up when I get back and see whats up with that.
Detector seemed to work very well. Did not hit the water with it but worked the wet and dry sand and it seemed to perform very well. The tone ID is a little different than I expected and will take a little time to get used to. I left the Disc at 1 and dug everything to get a feel for it. I think I will really like it once I get used to all the tones.
This thing goes deep. I first ran in Auto but then switched to manual and adjusted the sens just a little below half way. Got a good sounding signal and started scooping. Took 3 scoops out and signal was getting louder and still down there. Thought for sure I had a pop can. Finally at about 12-14" out popped a quarter. That is the deepest I think I have every dug one. Nice!!
Was able to crank the sens almost all the way up without falsing. Threshold was very stable and would only change when it would null over iron then come back with a lower tone, which I understand indicated what type of metal it discriminated out. Thats kind of neat. Pinpointing with the 10" coil was easier than I expected.
In roughly a hour, didn't find anything spectacular. Found .97 cents in clad and one junk ear ring. Can't wait to get this thing in the water and give it a real run for the money(or Gold).
HH
Gary