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F70 v. F75

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Shambler

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I have an opportunity to get a good deal on an F70, but I've been saving for the F75. can anyone tell me if I should wait? I don't necessarily want a science lesson everytime I go out so I think the F70 might be better in that regard. BUT I also want the most bang for my buck.

What are the real world differences?

Any help would be appreciated!
 
This has been stated by many F70 users on here not just me which i find rather strange that fisher would allow a $650 detector go deeper than their big sellin $1200 one. So im tellin people get the F70 and save a good amt. a cash. I s a trigger worth over $500. ?????

There's a great deal on a mint F70 in the classifieds still
D.
 
will hit my 6" buried dime with the coil held 8" over the ground, my XT50 will hit the same dime with the coil held 3" over the ground, this is with the stock coil on both. The F70 is the deepest machine I've ever used, this includes the CZ6a. John
 
Imagine the whole forum might like to peruse them even though different areas require different settings...Always thought a CZ coil for coil was as deep as any but your depth is outstanding and perhaps one of us forum members just might learn a bit even though its tough to teach an old dog new tricks...
 
Not likely the machine would be deeper..Maybe different coil gives that impression.
Use same coil on both units, then give a report as to the depth on each.
 
I can't say which one is deeper but I can say that the F70 definitly runs quieter than the F75 and has a great user interface. Being a coin hunter the F70 really fits the bill for that style of hunting. Also seems to me that the F70 gives you that nice soft silver ping just like the CZ's do. For what I use the detector for the F70 does everything the F75 can do minus a few small adjustments you do get on the F75.
 
1. If you set the F70 to speed SLOW it has the same punch as the F75 in the hot JE processing.
2. The F70 can fastgrab over salt in the All Metal mode, on the F75 you have to do it manually if the ground number is lower than 40.
3. If you set the F70 to DE speed it is DE no matter where you have your disc setting.
On the F75 it seems it has slow (JE) from disc 0 to 4 and fast (DE) from 5 to 19 and after 19 JE (slow) again. So DE processing on the F75 seems a mixture of the DE and slow speed of the F70.
4. You can set the DE or Slow speed in the All Metal Mode too. F75 has only one speed in motion all metal.
5. The interface is even easier to use than the interface of the F75.

The F75 still has some features the F70 does not have:

Static All Metal Mode , Manual GB to overwrite the fastgrab setting or offset pos. or neg. GB., Back-light, DD coil ..better for bad ground, depth on the fly meter, armrest can be adjusted by bending the "wings" .

You can see now that the F70 has some things the F75 does not have and the other way around. If you compare the price of the F70 ( $ 649) to the $999 of the F75, the F70 is a heck of a deal.

Andy
 
The ground minerals here on the Texas Gulf Coast are very low, I can run the sens at 80, Disc at 0, SL mode, notch at 1, threshold at O, tone at 3H to get the high tone on nickles, have found alot of nickles. If I increase the sens to 85 it does chatter but not to bad. When hunting areas with alot of trash I do have to back off on the sens to 60 because it does get very noisey. I haven't tried the small coil yet to see what difference that would make but plan on getting one. My XTerra 50 runs super quiet compared to my F70 but can't compete with the F70 for depth but I will admit the XT50 does better in real trashy areas since I have the 6" DD coil on at present. The F70 is one hot machine when it comes to raw depth. I like them both. I still need to use the F70 more since I've only had it about a month but so far I am impressed with this machine. Zinc pennies come in at 59-60, copper pennies and clad dimes at 68-70 with silver dimes at 72-74. On my XT50, most zinc/copper pennies come in at 36 along with clad/silver dimes, the F70 seems to separate the zincs and dimes/copper pennies alot better. HH John
 
I have both and in moderate ground I would have to say that F75 is still deeper. But, I'm impressed with the F70 build quality, reminds of the Tesoros and if the F75 was built like the F70 there wouldn't be any complaining and it would probably shave another 1/2 lb. off the weight. The main thing I'm kind of bothered by is the seeming inconsistancy in the build of these machines and it makes me wonder if the ones I have are as good as they can be, since I don't have anything concrete to compare them against.
 
Hi John,

Thanks for providing the settings that you use over in TX. They are very similar to the ones I use in FL as well. When the ground here is bone dry, the ground grab will set itself to use a value of about 81. The same area when wet will be set to approx 59-65.

Speed = SL is real important to get the extra depth, like you indicated.

The ONLY problem I have running the F70 so hot is that I then end up investigating every tiny chirp the unit makes.

HH
Tony
 
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