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quattro: hardly any posts....why????

I own one & sorry to say that it's the biggest Turkey I have ever owned!You have heard of the race between the Rabbit & the Turtle...compared to other detectors the Quattro is the turtle.
I have had My Quattro 2 years but only used it 1 year as My Quattro "at least" is horrible.SLoow recovery
& when I hit a target it take s a wave of my trowel across the coil to get it to overload just to get it to recover,amongst other problems (small) .I told Minelab & sent it to them & I got it back saying there is nothing wrong with it!! So here I was stuck with this expensive piece of junk.I have been on the phone with one of the owners of Tesoro & am impressed & intend to buy a Tesoro this Spring & the "Minelab Quattro" and all the extra' I bought for it..rech batt. pack,lower shaft,extra cuff,extra battery packs,case etc. will be thrown in the trash as I am so fed-up with it.

To all the Quattro users on this forum: I mean no disrespect to You as this is My (solo) experience with the Minelab Quattro & You can see I am not to happy.
PS: I am not new to metal detecting as I am 54 yrs old & have had a few detectors in My life being My first was a Heathkit detector!!! :)
 
It is a killer on the beach, especially with a X-12 or 10X14 Excelerator coil where targets aren't as close together. It works fine with the 8"coil with lots of targets, but I agree the slow recovery time on the Std coil is hard to deal with among lots of signals. Like most posters, I feel you need more than one detector for multiple applications.
 
I found a ton of beach stuff with the quattro, but got tired of the SLOW recovery. although I won't part with my Quattro, I recently purchased an Excal for my beach wotk..Larry (tPBP)
 
Don't worry, it is a popular machine. There just haven't been too many posts made recently. Go back into the "archieves", if they're still there, and you'll see a ton of good threads. Marc. It's still a great machine.
 
I owned a Quattro for over a year - It is a great machne - but - if you like to hunt any areas other than beaches - and those areas have trash - its just way to slow to recover between close targets.
Its just the way it is - I went to a Explorer II - its the same technology but recovers almost immediatly between targets. Its like night and day when compared to the recovery speed of a Quattro.
The Exp II does have a heck of a learning curve (even more so than the Quattro).
I also feel that the Quattro can lock onto a target better than the Exp II - but its recovery speed makes it almost useless in trashy areas unless you are willing to really slow way down and use it in all metal mode with a small coil.
The quattro will find the good stuff, it will find it deep but you have to really pick your way slowly and deliberately with it.
I suggest that if you feel like its a useless paper weight - do not give up on Minelab - get an Explorer series. If you have any extra coils for your quattro, they will plug right into an Explorer. In addition any good habits you learned using the quattro (like moving slowwwww) will play right into the Explorer's strenghts.
 
Don't worry, this is a great machine. I still own one, and it is amazing. There just haven't been many threads lately. A couple of year ago , hopefully still in the Finds archieves, you'll find tons of great reports and information that'll thrill you to death, and as far as I'm concerned, (because I've read most of them), it's good info. This machine, will go a foot deep at the beach sometimes on a penny, (I had that happen), it'll discriminate, like you can't believe, and give you a very accurate depth reading on coin sized objects, not to mention that it'll detect over almost any soil on the planet including salt water, black mineralized sand, and other tough dirt. You bought the right detector, you just got here when things are extremely slow on this forum for Quatro. Marc (backslyder).
 
For us Quattro owners in the northern states I live in Michigan. Where we have 6 months of winter and 6 months of bad snowmobiling. It is hard to get out and detect till maybe april this time of year. Ron
 
We just got our Quattro about 3 months ago and are still learning but having a great time and some great finds...true it is slow on recovery it seems like...but it does find deep coins and jewelry and we have been hunting in quote "hunted out" places and still find coins and jewelry..but one area has tons of trash!!! And the flute does play but you just have to decide what you want to dig...we finally gave up on some numbers when we learned what the pull tabs were and these are old pull tabs from like the 80's but still we have found a alot of coins in this area...we are looking forward to going to the salt water beaches possibly this weekend....Happy hunting to you and lets keep on another posted here......
 
Well for one thing it's winter and although I go out and dig snow hills there has been too much thaw and rain everything is really frozen in you need a pick axe and a blow torch to get at anything. The next thing would be I own multiple machines and just how much time I have to dedicate to everyone is minimal. Last "Take What You Can Give Up Nothing", I take it to heart, I will talk about issues and performance but not to much about what I find.
As far as slow recovery my old compass recovers the fastest of all my machines. Tesero is second but the target area is small and sweep overlap is req'd, The Garretts are next and the Quattro is last. But I have found that I have one swing speed for all these units. I have found that will miss things If I am a speed sweeper. I sometimes wonder what is slow and fast I am in no swinging competition. If I sweep fast and wide with no overlap what am I missing?? lots!! thats why no spot is worked out to many speed sweepers, I can follow a guy up the beach right behind him and get the stuff he missed. I have used my brother's excal 1000 and don't swing any faster than any of my other machines. If I am in a heavy trash area I will dig it all any how, can you take a chance that the possible trash/ring reading is the trash, not me. I don't need to spend anymore cash.
 
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