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Date Posted: 11:36:31 08/22/02 Thu
Author: Steve Herschbach
Subject: Re: Infinium Hype
In reply to: Jeff K 's message, "Re: Yesterday's Infinium Field test" on 18:56:06 08/21/02 Wed

Hi Jeff,

I've had an SD2200D for a couple years. And I've used three Infiniums so far (two prototypes, and one production unit). I like the Infinium a lot.

But I have to disagree with the Infinium being able hit large nuggets deeper than the SD2200D. With 11" round DD coil the SD gets about the same depth as the Infinium with 14"x10" DD elliptical. With any of the larger coils, like the Coiltek 14" mono, the SD2200D gets better depth than the Infinium. The larger the nugget, the more of an edge the SD gets with larger coils.

I really do like the Infinium, and I therefore hate to see it get promoted as "beating the Minelabs". Doing this has already resulted in significant backlash in Australia, and the same will happen here in the US.

There is no reason to hype the Infinium. It can stand on it's own merits. I find it to be an affordable and quite practical detector. Telling Minelab owners this machine might out-perform their current unit is asking for trouble.

What the Infinium does do is offer performance comparable to a Minelab SD/GP detector with an 11" round DD coil. It does so at a much lower price, in a lighter, fully waterproof package. It does not require an external battery pack. And a hip mount case is standard.

Another issue I'm seeing is that some people buying the unit are not familiar with PI tech, and therefore think the unit will work like a VLF detector. This is leading to problems. The main being assumptions about the discrimination. The disc on the Infinium is very good for a PI unit, which is to say very poor by VLF standards.

The best way to think of the Infinium, or any PI unit, is to consider them all-metal units. Be prepared to dig it all. Then, if you find you do get some correlation between what you are digging, and the limited disc info given, use it to your advantage. But discrimination is not a great PI selling point.

Anyway, had to get my two-cents in, as the Fisher Gold Strike got ravaged because of inflated expectations, and I see the same now happening with the Infinium. The machine does not deserve bad press because of unfair comparisons to machines costing three times as much.

Steve Herschbach

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