sofiap
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Hi all!
I was wondering if anybody has any experience with these...
I was really happy when my "new" Eagle II SL arrived in the mail last week.
I ordered it all the way from the US, and I live in Japan. It is my third detector. The first was one that no one has ever heard of, a Famous Trails, the second I recently purchased, an Excalibur II and the third is this Eagle II SL, which I was hoping that my husband would enjoy using. I am not very experienced at metal detecting, but I have been doing it for about a year.
I had heard such good things about the Eagle II, in the reviews and in the forums, it seemed simple and like a good machine, so I ordered it off of Ebay. It was pretty pricey for such an old machine, and at this point, I am kind of wishing that I had bought a newer machine like an M6 or AT Pro for the 250 extra it would have cost
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We have used it a few times. I read the manual and it seems that I am properly calibrating it to air and ground. I am not sure what I could be doing wrong. Here are some things that it does.
- After selecting the program and doing AIR/GND, it does not immediately give VDI numbers. I have to press buttons and change stuff for it to respond.
- I cannot seem to adjust the volume.
- When it does give a VDI signal, it is not something that happens over and over. Even if I go over the target several times, the number either does not appear or another number appears. Like 17 or 19, or 85 then something low like 30 something. It often seems really random, especially when things are still in the dirt. Sometimes it isn't random, though, like once we got a can out of the hole, it gave a solid 95 ever time, but when it was in the hole, it was 85 or 34 or 95 or other numbers or no number. The deeper the hole got, the more it gave a 95 or a 05 , which we assumed to be some iron at a deeper level. When we air tested it, it would come up with two signals for my gold wedding ring, and two signals for another piece of jewelry, three signals for a nail clipper. The platinum ring was a 17 or 19 every time.
- Often there is no VDI signal at all, but it still beeps loudly. I thought that this must be iron, but iron has a signal from 00 to 09, right?
We have air tested it, tested it in the mountains in a gravel parking lot, and in a trail area.
I was wondering if it is broken and I should try to send it back and get a different machine,
or
if it is broken but it is such a good machine that I should send it to White's so they can fix it.
If you have the time, I would be ever so grateful for some advice!! Thanks a lot in advance!!
-Sofia
I was wondering if anybody has any experience with these...
I was really happy when my "new" Eagle II SL arrived in the mail last week.
I ordered it all the way from the US, and I live in Japan. It is my third detector. The first was one that no one has ever heard of, a Famous Trails, the second I recently purchased, an Excalibur II and the third is this Eagle II SL, which I was hoping that my husband would enjoy using. I am not very experienced at metal detecting, but I have been doing it for about a year.I had heard such good things about the Eagle II, in the reviews and in the forums, it seemed simple and like a good machine, so I ordered it off of Ebay. It was pretty pricey for such an old machine, and at this point, I am kind of wishing that I had bought a newer machine like an M6 or AT Pro for the 250 extra it would have cost
...We have used it a few times. I read the manual and it seems that I am properly calibrating it to air and ground. I am not sure what I could be doing wrong.
Here are some things that it does.- After selecting the program and doing AIR/GND, it does not immediately give VDI numbers. I have to press buttons and change stuff for it to respond.
- I cannot seem to adjust the volume.
- When it does give a VDI signal, it is not something that happens over and over. Even if I go over the target several times, the number either does not appear or another number appears. Like 17 or 19, or 85 then something low like 30 something. It often seems really random, especially when things are still in the dirt. Sometimes it isn't random, though, like once we got a can out of the hole, it gave a solid 95 ever time, but when it was in the hole, it was 85 or 34 or 95 or other numbers or no number. The deeper the hole got, the more it gave a 95 or a 05 , which we assumed to be some iron at a deeper level. When we air tested it, it would come up with two signals for my gold wedding ring, and two signals for another piece of jewelry, three signals for a nail clipper. The platinum ring was a 17 or 19 every time.
- Often there is no VDI signal at all, but it still beeps loudly. I thought that this must be iron, but iron has a signal from 00 to 09, right?
We have air tested it, tested it in the mountains in a gravel parking lot, and in a trail area.
I was wondering if it is broken and I should try to send it back and get a different machine,
or
if it is broken but it is such a good machine that I should send it to White's so they can fix it.
If you have the time, I would be ever so grateful for some advice!! Thanks a lot in advance!!
-Sofia
