petew said:
Thanks to Craig at showmetreasure I have a new euro tek pro coming with a sharpshooter in it.
If it's a
NEW Euro-Tek Pro, which search coil did you get with it [size=small](standard coil)[/size]?
petew said:
I've owned plenty of machines, but never a teknetics.
If you've owned a lot, then you know they can often be quite different from what we are used to. Be patient with the Euro-Tek Pro and put in the time to learn it, both the strengths and weaknesses.
petew said:
I have a explorer SE,and I really like it,but it's not practical for everything.
Quite true, not practical for everything, nor is the Euro-Tek Pro so just learn them and apply your skills with their abilities and things should go well.
petew said:
I like to just park hunt clad and rings sometimes, and I didn't wanna spend a lot of money just to adjust a bunch of buttons.
I had a couple of Euro-Tek Pros, both with the 8" round concentric coil, and I worked them with a few accessory coils. I didn't care for the 11" BiAxial coil, the 5X10 DD worked okay, but I got my best performance for urban Coin Hunting with the 8" Concentric and 5" DD in trashier places.
As for buttons and knobs, I like to keep things 'simple,' but they also need to be 'functional' and provide ample 'performance.' My problem with both of the E-T Pros I had was that the Ground Balance was just fine with the stock 8" coil, and one did pretty well with my 5" DD coil, but both had a GB that was way off with the 5X10 and 11" BiAxial coils, even to the point that they wouldn't respond to a US silver dollar or two silver halves. I had to tweak the GB trimmer on one if them to make it 'functional.'
For many people I think the Euro-Tek Pro can be a useful and handy detector, especially for typical Coin Hunting tasks and even some entry into Relic Hunting. It's an okay detector, but my current favorite Teknetics model is the Omega as it is more versatile.
petew said:
Light,deep and great seperation ...
The E-T Pro, like the other Teknetics models, does have a quick-response and fast-recovery, and does reasonably well in recovery/processing when Discrimination is used. I found it worked better for Coin Hunting.
petew said:
... I'm told with the sharpshooter, Craig sold me on the simplicity and performance of this machine,and it sounds like fun ,can't wait to get it.
I haven't use the Sharpshooter coil on that model, and I hope it works well for you. Give it time to get used to if from your Minelab FBS model, then give us a report on your experiences.
Monte
