Tabdog has me thinking.. what do you guys think of the 180 vs 120 machines?

[digitaltim]

The 180 seems hotter, but at the expense of more iron and aluminum in the diet. Its easy enough to tell, but I get tired of hearing only iron and I start to dig the better sounding ones....results = more buckles. Some aluminum and crumpled foil signal in as tempting digs all too often. So there's a little more trash in the diet. New pull tabs can be ignored, but the old thick ones sound wayyy too nice not to dig. results = more rings and a lot more pull tabs.

the 120 machines can be set to break up on the same items 180 machines can't ignore.

I like them both and can't decide which I prefer. I think I lean towards 120 most days, because if I'm going to dig every thing I can, but if I want to ignore more I can do that too..


What do you people think?

 

[Monte]

[size=large]are being compared. There are many w/ED-120 and several w/ED-180. Some of each discriminate versions can be quieter in iron trash than others, and some have more 'issues' in nasty iron debris.

A quiet-running ED-180, such as the Compadre, can have the rejection increased to duplicate the iron nail rejection of an ED-120 Bandido, for example, but it can also be fine-tuned to accept a little more than the Bandido w/o responding to everything. Both are quiet hunters in iron trashed sites.

This is just one example.

Monte[/size]

 

[tabdog]

Hay Digitaltim,

You said:

I like them both and can't decide which I prefer. I think I lean towards 120 most days,
because if I'm going to dig every thing I can, but if I want to ignore more I can do that too..

I feal pertty much the same way. But I tend to use the ED 180 a little more than the ED 120
and the Vaquero, what ever ED it is.

I usually don't use disc. The ED 120 or the Vaquero gives me some disc naturally while still
getting max depth and sensativity.

But sometimes I do use some disc on the ED 180 and it makes it somewhat like the ED 120.

It's a matter of what machine I want to use for the hunt. Also the conditions of the hunt.

Can't add much to what you said. I feal the same way.

Just to add. My Machines are:

Euro Sabre and Compadre have true ED 180

Silver Sabre uMax has a ED 120

Vaquero reported to have an ED 180. But we all know that it is not the true ED 180.

Happy Hunting,