Oh boy what a day a the beach!
Today's test was at the beach..just in case you couldn't figure that one out Blue's Clues lol
After applying (liberally) spf40 we where off to the races
One your terrain changes, so does your ground balance! Then you do the Turkish two-step.. again
Pinpointing is really easy!..right smack under the centre part of the coil. Now it has a different type of targeting system that took a bit to get used to. If you see in the picture here with the joystick, you will see a black button. (the guy who designed this played allot of flight simulator) when you hit a target you get a sound and a light alert, you sweep it twice then you move it away and press the (side-winder missile )button and move it over the target again, and then it tells you either ferrous or non..
Oh let me get back to the pinpointing.. the centre part of the coil illustrated in the picture. Smack dab right under the centre part, as long as you keep it 8-15 cm (about 3 1/2" from the ground) Funny once you lift the coil from the target even a few inches....lost! This thing does not do well in the air test at all! But then again, I'm not searching rain clouds for treasure!
I will be honest, my first impression of the unit was... is this their prototype? I have worked in the manufacturing business from concept to cash sale and I know production quality. They have not invested a whole bunch in tooling or material finishing. I think all the money was spent in the box!... Lemmie explain Lucy! From what I can tell, most of this device was put together by hand. Things like the foam pad on the arm rest where cut by hand (not symmetrical) The tooling marks on the device from the moulding and production suggests that they didn't refine their tool dies. Or they just didn't have the resources to do so. they got to phase 2 of the tool and die step and figured.. Meh, good enough! Parts where obviously trimmed by hand and glued by hand in some places. This was not put together by automation. This was put in front of someone at a work bench.
I am just being picky, but when you drop 2k you want to know where the money went. If I had the choice I would obviously choose to have a great guts in a crappy container any-day!
I still feel that the guy who designed the handle watched a little too much TopGun! I can here IceMan in the background "It's a pull-tab Mavrick, not a diamond ring!"
I don't mind that it feels like a prototype, because it feels solid. the toggle switches and dials all feel solid and not weak and cheap flimsy.
The headphones where defiantly cheap-ass Like a set you would get from AirCanada for 10 bucks and use once! and given an adapter for the larger jack size. It does have an external speaker and volume control. I found that I just ditched the phones and went with the speaker.
Not too sure why they went with an external battery pack... I mean the thing is really light and they could have easily incorporated it into the design. So your attached to this fat cell phone clip that connects to the back port of the MD (if you go back to previous pics you can see...oh hell Ill just repost it)
I didn't mind it soo much.. I didn't even really feel it at all. Any way, most of the day yesterday was testing and groping by the other MD guys (the device, not me!) Lots of Ohhhs and Ahhhs and "hey let me hold it, no I wanna touch it!"
One thing that we did find while testing and Oogling was a cable!...yeah, right by the volleyball nets on the beach. I get a hit and start diggin..and diggin.. and wondering when the parks n' rec guys would come over and say "what the heck are you doing...we got a lake already.. look behind you" Yeah so this cable (12/2) was about a foot and a half or more (we should have pulled out the ruler for this one) under the sand.. We had a whites, garrett and tesoro guy and they never detected it.. We figure it must have been used for lighting way back in the day because it was not live... yeah tesoro guy tested it with a nail...I reminded him that he too was conductive. That was a Darwin award nomination right there!
Well the day was soon done and these guys returned to their wives and I went back to our kitchen reno... not much in the MD'n that day, more just chatting and testing. I hope today to really get out on the field for pure MD'n
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