wings53476
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Just trying to find out about any reviews on a Fisher impulse, AQ.
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Fisher Fisher Impulse-AQ
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I've got two. They are deep, smooth threshold. Some people pan the discrimination capabilities; the discrimination is not like a VLF detector but I find it is useful; you still need to develop an ear for the width and shape of the sounding on targets to avoid digging most of the iron bits. The stock battery only lasts about three hours on a good day which is not enough. More battery capacity is needed and Fisher has not addressed that yet. Mine have more than paid for themselves. As Jim noted, a lot more info over at detectorprospector.
Here is my best outing with the AQ, although I suspect that the Excal would have found it all too on that day since none were that deep, the bottom was holding the targets and the water movement had washed away much of the covering sand. The chain does test as 10k solid gold.
Was such a good AQ day I had to post some finds
Was out for about 4 hours around low tide with the Impulse AQ. Found some soft bottom cuts in the water then found a cut that had a hard shell pack bottom that was holding stuff ... maybe a hundred feet long and thirty feet wide that at low tide was only knee to waist deep. Spent nearly all my...
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OldBeechnut
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Love my AQ's but I would not recommend the current model due to poor battery life. Hopefully in the future we will see the next generation which offers drop in batteries and run time of 5.5 hours. Performance is about the same, very deep. As far as the discrimination side, which I rarely use, it does well but a hair adjustment can make all the difference in how that setting works.
A few video's.. If you look close at the first two video's you will see the next Gen model..
A few video's.. If you look close at the first two video's you will see the next Gen model..
If you can say ... any insight about whether or not the potentiometers have been replaced with more robust ones? And is there actually going to be a release of the next Gen model?
Thanks!
OldBeechnut
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I think this one is still using the original Potentiometers, but I did hear possible big changes are being worked on? Now which......... and if any will make it into our hands is the Big Question. I'm just glad I snagged a second unit for my clock is ticking and I don't see anything coming out soon. And this is my opinion for First Texas shares no information.
And THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I still hold a (small) piece of hope they might still be working on a few things. HH jim tn
Thanks for the info. Hope you are making best use of your AQs. I'm splitting time between detecting, fishing and family. Digging the deep targets the AQ finds during a day's use takes me a day or two to recover now ... and it will not be getting any better as the years continue to roll by.
I'm hoping that "possible big changes" means digitizing the processing ... first issue will be isolating the A to D converter from the noise of the high powered pulse ... but once digitized a whole realm of possibilities might open up if they have one or two very good coding mathematicians on the team who know signal processing. That could also put things behind a touch pad and solve issues related to keeping salt water away from pot shafts.
Cheers!
Not sure who you are asking ... as for me, I'm just getting old with aches and pains after exertion that take a lot longer to recover from than when I was younger.