T2 (& T2 Ltd) Environmental seals ?

[Cal_Cobra]

Hunted with a buddy this spring and my machine did fine in the drizzle and his T2 crapped out both times we were out in light rain (but was fine once it dried).

Did Teknetics offer an upgrade to get environmental seals on the T2 like FT did on the F75?

TIA,
Brian

 

[Mr.Bill]

All the newer T2's, and most that have gone back to the factory, have been sealed. Not quite to the degree of the F75, but enough to take care of the rain.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Thanks Bill & Elton.

If I decide to go for one of the new LTD machines, I'll have a hard time deciding between the F75 Ltd and the T2 Ltd (which is $200 less).

I need to see one in action here to make up my mind

hh,
Brian

 

[marcomo]

Elton says the T2.

Elton, am I paraphrasing you correctly when you said that your percentage of good targets dug is higher with the T2 than the F75?

And is it correct that the T2 doesn't save your settings when you turn it off?

 

[Elton]

Less rusty caps, and Iron targets. For some reason, I find Wheats in the same area I used the F75 in just prior. You are correct the T2 does not save settings when turned off.

Sens 80 disc at 40 in old school yards and football fields. I have repeated this several times and places.
I have no real explaination why this happens.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

You are correct the T2 does not save settings when turned off.

Have to say this is surprising for a $1000 MSRP machine

 

[jim tn]

I have found in my ground that there is about a "nickels" worth of difference between the two detectors. I have a lot more time in with the F 75, so that could be the nickels worth of difference. I do feel the F 75 gets a touch more depth, I like the settings savings feature and the backlight. I have found on more then one occasion that the F 75 seems to be more stable when I get near some power lines that border a couple of sites that I regularly hunt. ???? Since the F 75 is the flagship detector of F/T, if I do spring for a LTD, it will be for the F 75. But, that is just me. I love my T 2 as well. HH jim tn

 

[jbow]

if you use it a lot, resetting it to what you like is nothing, it's really a non-issue.

J

 

[SteveP(NH)]

It takes me about 30 seconds to setup my T2 at the beginning of a hunt and I would follow most of my setup routine even if the machine saved its settings. First I ground balance using fast grab, which I would do even if the last ground balance was saved, next I set the sensitivity which I do by running up the sensitivity from the default 60 until the machine starts to chatter, then I back off a couple of numbers which again I would do anyway as somedays you can run up the sens higher than other days, I leave the discrim at 10 which is the default, next I set the tones to 2+ - this is the only setting I wouldn't touch if it were memorized, finally I switch to all metal mode and run the sensitivity up to 99 (the machine has separate sensitivity settings for all metal and discrimination modes.'

It takes about 15 seconds for the fast grab to GB the machine and it takes another 15 seconds or so to set the rest of the settings.

I also detect with a Minelab X-Terra 705 which does save its settings and I run through much of the same setup with it so it takes just as long to get going with it as it does with the T2.

 

[SoArk]

Steve,

I do about the same thing each time I take my F75 out. Even though it saves its settings. I just got it about a month and a half ago, so I'm still learning it. I most always turn it on using the button and toggle to reset it to factory settings. Then I will ground balance, and then begin customizing the other settings. I'm doing it now more out of just trying to become as familiar as I can with the newness of it. Plus, with the different kinds of ground around here, moving from one location to another..... it's not a bad idea to set the machine each time anyways.

 

[Elton]

As far as saving the settings after turn off. I always reset my machine for the area I am hunting..I would highly recommend all do that for Max good results.

If I cross the street I reset the machine, and Fast grab GB often. A bad GB setting can cost one a lot of good targets at depth. Sensitivity can be critical in just a small area of ground too. Read the below post of SteveP. He nails the settings value. Higher sens is not always the answer for good results. Stability is a must. A little chatter on the T2 is not a bad thing.Unstable to the point your loosing targets is.

 

[chuck ky]

n/t

 

[millsa2]

$50.00 Seal and battery spring upgrade at factory for older units

 

[Cal_Cobra]

I always setup my machine for the sites I hunt, which for me mainly means a fresh ground balance and setting the sensitivity/threshold for the site. I'm mainly a coin-shooter, but I like to run the same tone settings, low disc, and no notch, so it would be nice if those settings would remain unchanged. Not a big deal to change them, but it seems silly a $1000 detector doesn't have a last setting memory in this day and age.

Perhaps they added this feature to the T2 Ltd since is has a new microprocessor

 

[SteveP(NH)]

Chuck - it gepends on how hard I want to work the site. If I am real focused then I will hunt in all metal while if I don't quite want to work the site as hard and am just enjoying myself then I will work in discrim and just switch to all metal to check deep targets with jumpy target IDs.

A lot of times what happens is I start out in AM hunt that way for a while and then after I have been out for a while then I easy up and switch to discrim. The other thing that happens sometimes is that I will be working in discrim and find 2 or 3 keepers close to each other, then I will switch to AM and work that area real hard and real slow in AM.