The F75 came today.
Initial Pros and Cons:
Pros:
1. This unit is wonderfully light and well balanced.
2. It is fast processor wise and also using it sweep speed wise.
3. At first the menu seems confusing, but just a few minutes of using it and it is a piece of cake. Easy to navigate in very few steps.
4. It is very easy to ground balance.
Cons:
1. It does not ship with a coil cover. I've seen it posted on here that it will come with weather covers, but mine didn't. However, the way I understand it they will send it to the first few buyers and will ship with the units after that.
2. It does chatter some.
I got my unit and had to go use it a few minutes. I took it .5 miles from my home and played with it about 20 minutes and decided that I would benefit if I went back home and read the manual. If you are going to get a F75, I recommend you download and read the manual ahead of time.
I came back home and read the manual and went back out for about 90 minutes of hunting at a school and a local park. It is an old area, but a new park. I didn't stay but a few minutes at the school as the ground keeper was working on the grounds. I found one clad dime and left and went to the park. I've never found anything old at the park, but felt like it would be a good quick test for finding coins. It didn't disappoint.
I found $2.21 in clad and an corroded gold plated ear ring. 5 Quarters,7 dimes, 4 nickels, and 7 pennies. All clad and no big deal, but what I was impressed with is the 4 nickels and 1 pull tab and one bottle cap. I hardly ever find nickels with my other units as they sound like pull-tabs. With this unit (using tones 4H) the nickels sound like regular coins. 4 nickels is more than I have ever found in one day.
I was also impressed that for the 1st time using this machine I found only the 2 trash targets, 3 if you count the ear ring. The reason I dug the earring is because it gave a good repeatable nickel reading (31).
There were places that it was very chatterly. I found out you have to be careful thinking that though.
I think part of the reason was because I was near the walkway and they have lamp poles about ever 90 feet and there was no overhead wires. So I feel like the electric was underground.
I found out the other reason is that there were actually good targets causing this. In other words it wasn't really chatter, but this unit is so fast that it gets them and lets them go so fast that you think they are chirps. I'm talking about surface clad here.
I found out when I heard that you have to raise the coil and what was 3 chirps now becomes one solid perfect signal. After a few pennies, I stopped digging them and went for the 5 cent and above. The point I'm trying to make is when you are in heavy surface clad, investigate the chirps. It is not necessarily noise.
I was also impressed how well the ID #s separate a penny from a dime. You can be certain that a solid hit on 60 is a penny and 70 is a dime. 30-31 will be a nickel (or and earring).
I'm going to try to find a place tomorrow that has the possibility of having deep silver and see if I can make an assessment about the depth.
I think a lot of people are going to like this detector. Having said that, it is not exactly turn on and go, but most will not have any difficulty using it and finding good things with it. Time will tell.
HH Alton
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Initial Pros and Cons:
Pros:
1. This unit is wonderfully light and well balanced.
2. It is fast processor wise and also using it sweep speed wise.
3. At first the menu seems confusing, but just a few minutes of using it and it is a piece of cake. Easy to navigate in very few steps.
4. It is very easy to ground balance.
Cons:
1. It does not ship with a coil cover. I've seen it posted on here that it will come with weather covers, but mine didn't. However, the way I understand it they will send it to the first few buyers and will ship with the units after that.
2. It does chatter some.
I got my unit and had to go use it a few minutes. I took it .5 miles from my home and played with it about 20 minutes and decided that I would benefit if I went back home and read the manual. If you are going to get a F75, I recommend you download and read the manual ahead of time.
I came back home and read the manual and went back out for about 90 minutes of hunting at a school and a local park. It is an old area, but a new park. I didn't stay but a few minutes at the school as the ground keeper was working on the grounds. I found one clad dime and left and went to the park. I've never found anything old at the park, but felt like it would be a good quick test for finding coins. It didn't disappoint.
I found $2.21 in clad and an corroded gold plated ear ring. 5 Quarters,7 dimes, 4 nickels, and 7 pennies. All clad and no big deal, but what I was impressed with is the 4 nickels and 1 pull tab and one bottle cap. I hardly ever find nickels with my other units as they sound like pull-tabs. With this unit (using tones 4H) the nickels sound like regular coins. 4 nickels is more than I have ever found in one day.
I was also impressed that for the 1st time using this machine I found only the 2 trash targets, 3 if you count the ear ring. The reason I dug the earring is because it gave a good repeatable nickel reading (31).
There were places that it was very chatterly. I found out you have to be careful thinking that though.
I think part of the reason was because I was near the walkway and they have lamp poles about ever 90 feet and there was no overhead wires. So I feel like the electric was underground.
I found out the other reason is that there were actually good targets causing this. In other words it wasn't really chatter, but this unit is so fast that it gets them and lets them go so fast that you think they are chirps. I'm talking about surface clad here.
I found out when I heard that you have to raise the coil and what was 3 chirps now becomes one solid perfect signal. After a few pennies, I stopped digging them and went for the 5 cent and above. The point I'm trying to make is when you are in heavy surface clad, investigate the chirps. It is not necessarily noise.
I was also impressed how well the ID #s separate a penny from a dime. You can be certain that a solid hit on 60 is a penny and 70 is a dime. 30-31 will be a nickel (or and earring).
I'm going to try to find a place tomorrow that has the possibility of having deep silver and see if I can make an assessment about the depth.
I think a lot of people are going to like this detector. Having said that, it is not exactly turn on and go, but most will not have any difficulty using it and finding good things with it. Time will tell.
HH Alton
2.
