What frequency is the TR Discriminator American S2

[Southwind]

I'm trying to remember what frequency the 80's Garrett TR Discriminator American S2? I had one back in the 80's and it seems to me it was pretty high.

 

[quarterhorse]

All the reference I find list it at 50 khz

 

[Occupant]

Garret's American Series (beginning in 1981 or so) used the same accessory coils as the Groundhog which runs at 15.5 kHz. The Americans were the same circuit as the Hog but without some of the external controls (Ground Balance, Sensitivity, Discrimination) and ran on two 9v. cells where the Hog ran on four 9v. (actually it did fine on three, two for the detector circuits and one for the audio amp circuit, if you used headphones) The housing was more compact and overall weight was slightly less.
The '81 Garrett catalog is available for download on Sven's site at: www.treasurelinx.com
HH
Roger in VA

 

[Occupant]

Oops, got distracted and failed to add this:

The S2 is another story and may well have run at 50 kHz, the catalogs don't say, but they did use different coils and even had 7.5" DD coil and 10.5" co-planar coil available. It was not listed in the '81 catalog, so it looks it was in production for only one year. That would be a very rare machine. Garrett also sold the same machine as their International version called the I-2.

The '80 Garrett catalog is also available for download on Sven's site at: www.treasurelinx.com and the American S-2 is on page 14.
HH
Roger in VA

 

[Blackie]

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?32,297547


http://members6.boardhost.com/classicdetector/msg/1281864742.html

 

[Muddyshoes]

Detectors around that era had a small round gold sticker on top of the searchcoil that often listed the frequency.

I love seeing 1970s era detectors still being used.