Hello and welcome. I was in your same situation just a month ago. I bought a second hand machine for under a hundred bucks, I got lucky, it worked. Im told it takes a hundred hours of using a machine before you really start to understand it. I added that because I now own three machines.
Maybe someone in your area can get with you and let you see how a detector works.
I look at battery type, weight, does the machine have a manual ground balance. Most situations automatic ground balance is ok, but if your going to nugget hunt, its suggested a manual ground balance option.
Interchangable coils make are a option. I dont do wet so cant help you.
The Garret Infinium is advertised as a gold nugget machine, and underwater metal detector. Thats some serious hunting there. I live in the desert, so I dont do water. It uses a audio tone ID which I like, but you are missing out on some of the vdi readouts that can help you from digging trash. 96 freq's and pi with a double dd coil, good stuff for sure. Even uses aa batterys, so not too expensive to run.
The readouts of more expensive machines that tell you the size of what you are digging will save you from digging pennies all day. Oh, to all you garret owners, thanks for the pennies.
Besides no visual readout it lacks a manual ground balance. If I paid that kind of cash, I would want the option to at least switch between manual and automatic ground balance for nugget hunting. Its a very sensitive machine and I would have fits learning it.
My thoughts is buy the machine for the job. Thats a good machine, but too much machine for me.
Be sure to post you choice and finds in the future. I too am looking to my next machine, a nugget shooter. I like the history of the Tesero family. But garret and fisher has some great stuff for the same price.
Good Luck
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