It's here - the Garrett Infinium LS detector! Garrett Electronics has introduced a ground balancing pulse induction (PI) based detector at an affordable price. Very few PI detectors offer interchangeable searchcoils, and fewer yet have the ability to compensate for ground mineralization with automatic ground tracking. This unit is called the Infinium LS. The Garrett Infinium LS is seeing use water detecting, relic hunting, prospecting, and more.
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| General Information: Advanced Pulse Induction (API) Technology 730 Pulses Per Second Microprocessor Controlled True Ground Balancing Capability Adjustable Automatic Ground Tracking 32 Adjustable Frequencies Pulse Induction Discrimination System Completely Submersible When Used With Optional Underwater Headphones Multiple Shaft Mounting Options Hip Mount or Chest Mount Options Standard With Above Water Headphones Standard And Chargeable Batteries Supplied 110V And 12V Chargers Included Two Year Warranty Operating Controls (3): 2. Discrimination (Target Elimination) Fully Adjustable Discrimination Mode (This Control Doubles As A Frequency Control, See Below). Increasing This Control Increases The Amount Of Conductivity A Target Must Have To Produce A Signal. 3. Threshold Control - Variable Threshold Control With Frequency Adjust Position At Full Clockwise. This Control Is Adjusted To Produce A Faint "Threshold" Audio Sound. Some People Find It Easier To Think Of This As A "Squelch" Control. 4. Frequency Adjust - When Threshold Control Is Set At "Freq. Adjust" Position, The Discrimination Control Becomes A Frequency Adjust Control, With 32 Separate Frequencies To Choose From. Setting A Different Frequency Can Reduce Electrical Interference From Electrical Mains Or Other Detectors. Discrimination: 1. Dual Tone Audio - The Audio Signal For Low Conductivity Items Is A High Tone Followed By A Low Tone. The Audio Signal For High Conductivity Items Is A Low Tone Followed By A High Tone. | 2. Standard Discrimination - Increasing The Discrimination Control Sets A Higher Level Of Conductivity That A Target Must Have To Produce A Signal. Many Low Conductivity Trash Items May Be Eliminated This Way, Such As When Coin Hunting. Also, Certain Large Trash Items May Be Identified As They Cannot Be Tuned Out, Whereas Many Valuable Items, Such As Jewelry Or Gold Nuggets, Will Be Tuned Out (Reverse Discrimination). Control Housing: 3-Piece Stem Design: Searchcoil: Battery Data: Headphones: Operating Weights: Warranty: |
Includes 14" x 10" Power "DD" Searchcoil, Dry Land Headphones, Hip Mount Pouch & Belt, Instructional Video, Instructional Manual, Deluxe Battery System Including Battery Pack w/ 8-AA Batteries, Garrett NiMH Rechargeable Battery Pack, 110v charger and 12V Auto Charger (Infinium MSRP $1250.00). We are also including a FREE Heavy Duty Sandscoop ($24.95 value) and a FREE copy of "Water Hunting": Secrets of the Pros Book by Clive Clynick ($14.95 value). Get it all shipped to you with FREE FedEx Ground Shipping ($40.00 value). Total Retail Value $1329.90 Our price $1062.50 - YOU SAVE OVER $267.40
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Garrett Infinium LS
AMDS Price - $1062.50
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Garrett Infinium at Ganes Creek, Alaska
I visited Ganes Creek, Alaska over the Labor Day weekend to do some nugget hunting with some friends. I've visited the creek before, and used the Garrett Infinium LS to find a 1.2 pennyweight nugget on an earlier visit in July. We scanned an area that has been heavily hunted, for the same reasons that we were there. Three nuggets over 5 ounces were detected in the area this year.
For long hours of scanning, I prefer to use the Infinium in hipmount configuration. In other situations, where I may be digging more than actually scanning, I mount the control box to the rod assembly so I can set the detector aside while digging. But at Ganes Creek, where I may spend 12 hours a day scanning, keeping weight off my arm is very important. When hipmounted the rod and coil assembly weighs 3 lbs 3.8 oz on the arm, a significant reduction from the total unit weight of over 5 lbs.
The Infinium ran smooth and clear, so much so that I found myself waving my ring over the coil to make sure it was really working. Absolutely no signals from rocks in the tailing piles. Very odd when you are used to constant background sounds back from a VLF detector. But every once in awhile I got a signal, and dug either a shell casing, or an iron trash target. The dual-tone id on the Infinium LS is pretty simple. If you get a "hi-lo" tone the item is most likely a low conductive target like a gold nugget, gold jewelry, pull tabs, US nickels, and foil. Highly conductive targets like copper, silver (most coins except US nickels) and most iron and steel give a reverse "lo-hi" audio signal.
The discrimination on PI (Pulse Induction) detectors is not perfect, and so iron targets that might be rejected with a VLF (Very Low Frequency) may be signaled as "good" on a PI detector like the Infinium LS. It's important to know the dual-tone system is not an "iron rejection" system. It merely separates targets into two categories. Most iron and steel targets are highly conductive, but there are some that are actually low conductive. Bits of wire and flat, very rusty items are the worst offenders. When the Infinium reads on iron or steel targets as hi-lo tone, it has not made a "mistake" or wrong id. It is that there is a wide variation in potentially detectable targets, and some types of iron and steel have a low conductivity. So although the discrimination system on the Infinium was rejecting most of the iron trash, I was still digging some now and then.
I find shell casings and bullets to be encouraging, as that means there are likely more gold nuggets to be found. There is no id system available that will reliably reject brass and lead while getting gold nuggets. If these items remain to be found, then not all potentially detectable targets have been located. The same rule applies to pull tabs and gold jewelry. Leave pull tabs behind, and you leave gold jewelry for me to find. So the fact that the hi-lo tone groups gold nuggets, gold jewelry, bullets, shell casings, and pull tabs together is a good thing. This is the "gold range".
Still, the area had been well searched, and the finds were few. I finally located a 13.8 dwt (dwt = pennyweight) nugget, and then a 3.8 dwt nugget (20 pennyweight per ounce). Both were in an area of old cobbles that had lots of shell casings, and it may be that others had therefore avoided the location. The Infinium did it's job, and did it well. It runs incredibly clean in mixed cobbles that give constant, distracting variations in threshold sound on a high-frequency VLF unit.
All in all, I feel Garrett has done what they set out to do. Design a good general purpose ground balancing pulse induction detector for a very reasonable price. The machine almost totally ignores hot rocks and mineralized ground that give VLF units fits. And the dual-tone id system is a real plus. The machine should see lots of use nugget hunting, relic detecting, and of course water detecting. Now if they would just release the accessory coils - 14" mono and 8" mono. They are slated to be in dealer hands later this year.
~ Steve Herschbach
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