Mean machine

[Ultimate_Haze]

Great.
So it will be interesting winter after all.
Rely think that Musketeer worth efforts.And will be perfect platform for new handmades.
Please tell us what you think for SE when you have time and chance to make fieldtest.

[ivconic]

Don't worry, you will see it soon. I sold one, but i do keep another...
Until winter...

[Ultimate_Haze]

Congratulations!
SE should be great detector.
I saw on news -3C and 20 cm snow right?
Pitty I wanned to see Musketeer traced(((

[ivconic]

Pssssssssst! Beast is sleeping !

Good night Colt, good morning SE!!!

I just sold Musketeer Colt and bought brand new SE !
What a thrill! Best of the best! No doubts!

Just as i bought it it starts raining. Temperature bellow 3 degrees. All of the sudden! Must wait least a week to take it outdoor....
Until than...

[SVEN1]

Question on Musketeer tones

I want to change tones, is it possible to ad a variable tone control?
This way I can choose the tone that is agreeable to my hearing.
Thank you

[joecoin]

"The new Pulse Devil NEMESIS" seems to have vaporized?

[ivconic]

Same old Lamebin, NEW MONEY OLD ROPE and the fact that a LOT of detectorists are, shall I say it, GULLIBLE believing that a "new" machine will make the difference. Of course WE all know better on this forum don't we?

Tesoro started this and are STILL doing it.

The NEW Sovereign, with it's ground trac...ERM same micro and same code if you pull it from the ROM. Worse still is the fact that Limeban told us, when the Sov first appeared that it could "See through" bad ground and the like, it's plain for ALL to see in their early advertising yet now they would have us believe that it needs this new fangled system.

WHAT BULLSH*T!!

OK Milenabs marketing department is one of the best out there, but as Lebanim have were sold by Halcro a few months back I am questioning their viability as a company, in fact a friend who lives in Oz told me that her company had been sent a LOT of CV's from Engineers desperate to flee the ship, could this mean that ML are in financial trouble?

The new Pulse Devil NEMESIS will be the final nail in their coffin. Candy is out of ideas and on more than one occasion attempts have been made to STEAL PD prototypes from Dave Emery's house. How low will guys sink? I could tell you but the US and Oz authorities are still investigating the attempted thefts .

HOWEVER, ALL the above said, the Musketeer is an AWESOME machine and IF you adjust the pots right, it is the deepest VLF you can get, if a little "on the edge". Has anyone traced the schematic yet?

I intend to. But i am waiting prospecting "season" to end (until winter and snow). Because Colt is my most favorite machine, i am taking it with me always. Soon as season ends i will put it on the table and trace out.

About the rest....yes you are right. Almost all manufacturers have same strategy.
Partially i can understand that. It is tough to get new ideas, very tough. Especially nowdays...almost everything already done in this matters.
We have old and uniform concept; coil, TX and RX, indication. Everything in between already done; uPc, ADC, connection to outer world (pc), rich and nice user interface, multifreq. blah..blah.. tough to get new ideas, pretty tough!
E-Trac and Spectra V3 presents last achievements.
I think next would be full integration with multimedia.
How about cell phone with md features?
Take an example....Nokia N96. It has inputs, outputs, uPc, ROM, RAM...it already has extra good synthesizer, generator...fast software. It also has gyroscope, GPRS...Only thing left is...apropriate coil!
Include GoogleEarth mobille version, add more memory, make apropriate coil......that's it!
Audio output at Nokia (and simillars) is strong enough to be converted and used as very descent TX! Microphone input is extra sensitive and adjustbale and can be used as RX. What we need is coil and good application!
Hell of IB metal detector!
Maybe sounds crazy....but it's an idea also!
What new ideas?
White's and Minelab already done everything! What else could be done (in concept; tx,rx,coil...)?
I am stupid ....i cant imagine what else!?

Regards!

[ivconic]

Hi Ivconic!
Do you know how the resistance of the transformer sound?
10x!!!!

Uh...you got me! I have it somewhere on paper. Give me some time to find it...or i can measure again! I will answer you soon..

[Sean_Goddard]

Guys from Minelab probably made strategic marketing move and predicted newer models (only guessing) so they left everything inside same and changed only outlook of models. What was the reason? I really don't know.

Same old Lamebin, NEW MONEY OLD ROPE and the fact that a LOT of detectorists are, shall I say it, GULLIBLE believing that a "new" machine will make the difference. Of course WE all know better on this forum don't we?

Tesoro started this and are STILL doing it.

The NEW Sovereign, with it's ground trac...ERM same micro and same code if you pull it from the ROM. Worse still is the fact that Limeban told us, when the Sov first appeared that it could "See through" bad ground and the like, it's plain for ALL to see in their early advertising yet now they would have us believe that it needs this new fangled system.

WHAT BULLSH*T!!

OK Milenabs marketing department is one of the best out there, but as Lebanim have were sold by Halcro a few months back I am questioning their viability as a company, in fact a friend who lives in Oz told me that her company had been sent a LOT of CV's from Engineers desperate to flee the ship, could this mean that ML are in financial trouble?

The new Pulse Devil NEMESIS will be the final nail in their coffin. Candy is out of ideas and on more than one occasion attempts have been made to STEAL PD prototypes from Dave Emery's house. How low will guys sink? I could tell you but the US and Oz authorities are still investigating the attempted thefts .

HOWEVER, ALL the above said, the Musketeer is an AWESOME machine and IF you adjust the pots right, it is the deepest VLF you can get, if a little "on the edge". Has anyone traced the schematic yet?

[N@SKO]

Hi Ivconic!
Do you know how the resistance of the transformer sound?
10x!!!!

[ivconic]

More i think - more am convinced that there are some major flaw in what we done reversing Relic Hawk. It is not simple mismatch like wrong component value or something. It is most probably some huge flaw. For example minus rail switched with gnd at some point or simillar. Why? Looking now at Musketeer i see pretty "tolerant" design - quite oposite than we thought in the past!
Machine is so stabille, i cant explain! It is not about coil resistances at all. I played a bit with some handmade coils. I didnt gained some extra results, but oscillator never refused to run. It runs on resistances from 1 to 6 ohms! So doubts about to low or to high resistances are not real.
Handmade coil for Caesar (serbian most wanted) runs pretty descent with Musketeer! Rememeber? 75 windings, wire 0.45mm for TX and 170/0.22 for RX.
DD 27cm coil.
Balancing is not easy as on TGSL. I havent measured residual voltage yet at original coils, i just played a bit with TX and RX coils prepared for Caesar.
So far that much. Will continue. Weather here is worse and worse, day by day - meaning i will be captured more in my workshop!
I will inform you when something achieved..

[Qiaozhi]

Suitable to repeat Relic Hawk "reverse engineering" success. Good luck.

You will have ask those who were involved in reverse-engineering the Relic Hawk.

[WM6]

Therefore it is a suitable replacement.

Suitable to repeat Relic Hawk "reverse engineering" success. Good luck.

[Qiaozhi]

Yes Qiaozhi. But dissipation not mean only dissipation. Especially in oscillator stage. Twice and more dissipation mean "twice and more" instability cause of heating drift, more noise added to circuit (more parasitic frequencies / stronger harmonics to basic signal) etc. SMD 857 was used by reason and TO-92 BC557 cannot be good replacement, if one follow to hold primary characteristic of detector.

The power dissipation of 500mW for the BC557 does not mean that it will always dissipate that amount of power. This is the total power that the transistor can handle. If the 857 is replaced with a 557 it will only dissipate 200mW. Therefore it is a suitable replacement. There will be no significant increase in instability, heating or noise for this circuit.

[WM6]

The BC857 is an SMD with a total power dissipation (Ptot) of 200mW, whereas the BC557 (TO-92F) has a Ptot of 500mW.

Yes Qiaozhi. But dissipation not mean only dissipation. Especially in oscillator stage. Twice and more dissipation mean "twice and more" instability cause of heating drift, more noise added to circuit (more parasitic frequencies / stronger harmonics to basic signal) etc. SMD 857 was used by reason and TO-92 BC557 cannot be good replacement, if one follow to hold primary characteristic of detector.

Hi Ivconic I cannot recognize this Colt anymore. Congratulation. And coil set are really fantastic. This is a unique combination. Happy hunting!