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Garrett Infinium / Minelab Excalibur

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I have been useing a Minelab Excalibur for many years, but just recent I have been looking at the Garrett Infinium. The Garrett Infinium is Pulse Discriminating metal detector, but can it Id as well as the Excalibur? It says it has Audio tone Id.
I have had Pulse detectors before and I got tired of digging Iron.
If they are really a good discriminating and can Id good maybe time for a change.
Thanks in Advance
Chris
 
I'am very interested in this question also. So I hope there will be some good comparisons.
 
The discrimination on any PI detector is at best primitive compared to a VLF detector. The Infinium has two sounds that it makes -- high-low and low - high. One corresponds to a high conductivity target such as silver and the other to a low conductivity target such as iron or gold. It also has reverse discrimination which means as you increase the discrimination knob, higher conductivity targets will drop out and at the top, only iron is left.
For an excellent article on the Infinium discrimination, see:
 
First thing is the Infinium is noisy in the water unless it is dead calm. The discrimination is not a true discriminator. I dig only the high/low tones which gold,plat,nickle and aluminum sounds. The draw back is steel cap,small iron(nails,pins),some washers and some other byproduct steel also hits. You can tell them if you use the Iron check by spinning the discriminate knob all the way to full. This takes time and if you use it to calm the machine down you have to go back to the same spot.I just dig them. It will be deepper then the Excalibur but you can not beat the Excal for a all around machine.Anymore thought post them I will try to answer them for you,Joe
 
<img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)"> Thank you All for that input. After useing the Excalibur for many years, I think I will stay with what I know works. I know what she is telling me and what is under my coil, before I dig it. Water hunting can be tricky enough.
 
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