One month after making this review I suddenly found that I forgot about one of the best benefits of the Garrett Ace: You can always sell it for a good price!! (and swap to the twice better unit at no additional expense)
I agree with most of that, Though the coil can actually scan deeper than that to be fair.. The worse design flaw is the battery terminals to the PCB . Open up the controller & your see what I mean, It's built like a cheap Chinese toy & often looses power connectivity. I can see why China cloned these & bumped them out Cheap, because even the Garrett ones cheaply made through out!
Did not know about the internals and connections, interesting! I suppose the Chinese Clones are made with the quality not worse :) (except for their Coils quality that is really bad) Regarding the coil - may be the sensitivity was not maximum (that's my fault because normally I do not use max sensitivity on the other devices, but Ace can work on the Max as I found later). In any case - later we've taken the Coil from Ace and tested with Quasar - and THAT works much better!! (video of these tests is nearby here)
One month after making this review I suddenly found that I forgot about one of the best benefits of the Garrett Ace: You can always sell it for a good price!! (and swap to the twice better unit at no additional expense)
Hi wbat would you buy instead pf this detector... are the 400i much better in your experience?
I agree with most of that, Though the coil can actually scan deeper than that to be fair.. The worse design flaw is the battery terminals to the PCB . Open up the controller & your see what I mean, It's built like a cheap Chinese toy & often looses power connectivity. I can see why China cloned these & bumped them out Cheap, because even the Garrett ones cheaply made through out!
Did not know about the internals and connections, interesting! I suppose the Chinese Clones are made with the quality not worse :) (except for their Coils quality that is really bad)
Regarding the coil - may be the sensitivity was not maximum (that's my fault because normally I do not use max sensitivity on the other devices, but Ace can work on the Max as I found later).
In any case - later we've taken the Coil from Ace and tested with Quasar - and THAT works much better!! (video of these tests is nearby here)