Fisher New Gold Bug series

[bulletman]

What's the difference between the new gold bug and the gold bug pro???

 

[Tom Slick]

Straight from the Fisher website. The Pro has: V-Break TM; Industry's First Variable Breakpoint tone discrimination system, and V.C.O. Audio in All Metal & Discrimination Mode. The basic model doesn't have these two features.

 

[GroundScanner]

Tom can you tell me what the V-break does and what is it , thanks , GS

 

[Tom Slick]

The V break is an adjustment that makes everything above the break point a high tone and everything below the break point a low town. This is set separately from the discrimination. Lest say you want to disc out iron, you'd sent the disc at 40. Everything above 40 gives a beep, below 40 doesn't. You'd like coins to give you a high pitch sound but you'd like other non-ferrous targets, like tabs and gold rings to give a low pitch tone so you'd set the V-Break at say 70. Now every target above 70 will be high pitched and targets between 41 and 69 will be low. You decide where to set the Tone or "V"-Break, or you can not set it if you want and just have everything above your disc setting give you a high pitch beep.

 

[GroundScanner]

Thanks Tom , I always wondered but didn't want to ask anyone. Glad I did. GS

 

[Picker]

According to the kellyco site the Gold Bug has the Vbreak as well... is this not true?

 

[Tom Slick]

Yes, that is not true. The New Standard Gold Bug doesn't have the V-Break. The Pro also has the ability to be manually ground balanced while the standard Gold Bug does not. This allows the Ground Balance to be adjusted a little positive or negative if the user wishes.