will this challange e-trac

[chipmonky]

http://www.xpmetaldetectors.com/uk_detecteurs_DEUS.php Looks like it could be good some grate idea's

 

[John - Maryland]

Interesting concept, but I worry about wireless and remote control.Sometime simple and less complicated is better.Electronics is my profession and like hearing about new technology. Thanks for posting.

 

[silvereagle]

WOW~!taht is a great idea wireless,we will have to see how it performs.i think minelab could incorporate thisidea going full wireless,also i thiught about them going with a carbon fiber shafts and coils that would make them half the weight they are now.i am not complaining just thinking it would be cool.IMO

 

[pro778]

I like the idea of being able to upgrade the software. I thought that's what we would be able to do with the E-Trac.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Finally.
Somebody has finally built a high quality LIGHT WEIGHT UNIT!!!!! I only hope that others like Minelab finally follow.
Mick Evans.

 

[hunter 18]

I like the idea of being able to upgrade the software.and i wish for the E-trac to have this option and
the control box to be water proof to some degree, i don't care for wireless earphones is more trouble and more to go wrong,

 

[digitrich]

Can someone say interference, lag and why? Did the wires weigh that much? Yeah it would be neat to just turn on and go but it just seems like a whole lot of problems waiting to happen. See, if something is wireless and not hard wired, you would never know if you were dropping signals. How many of you had a short in a wire on a coil or headphones and how long did it go unnoticed. Do like the fold up Startrek ship looking design though. So much for a Sun Ray in line probe.

 

[digitrich]

I think the ETrac is read only memory (rom)

 

[kered]

Can someone say interference, lag and why? Did the wires weigh that much? Yeah it would be neat to just turn on and go but it just seems like a whole lot of problems waiting to happen. See, if something is wireless and not hard wired, you would never know if you were dropping signals. How many of you had a short in a wire on a coil or headphones and how long did it go unnoticed. Do like the fold up Startrek ship looking design though. So much for a Sun Ray in line probe.

Do you use a mobile phone, Gps, wireless router for internet, fly model planes or cars, remote sensor burgler alarm in house, or even a remote control of any description? Wireless has come a long way in the last few years, copper is expensive and fails

 

[John - Maryland]

Will have to to see, but I agree with you on this digitrich. One of the first things I read and I quote,

"With regard to actual underwater detecting, this is only possible at very shallow depths, for example in a stream where the coil will only be immersed by a few centimetres. This is not due to any waterproofing problem, but rather because the wireless radio link cannot pass through a greater volume of water."

I can for-see problems with this "wireless radio link" even when not used in water. These kinds of things are very susceptible to interference and Electro-Magnetic Interference EMF.