Fisher F75 - Anyone using one ?

[Montana]

Anyone using a Fisher F75 now days? And had any luck with it ? Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Steve

[Fusion]

"... and had any luck with it?"

This sounds like you're unimpressed by it.
It's not such a commonly used machine as its cousin, the Teknetics T2, from which it was developed. There will be plenty of T2 users on here who will testify it's a competent machine.
The F75 has extra / different features, but they don't seem worth the extra price ( to UK detectorists ).
I have one, but haven't used it in a while ... it's undergoing a shaft modification, putting it out of action; plus it's now a backup machine for my main Australian detector. I need to get it rebuilt, if only for the excellent 5" DD coil. No way am I buying the pricey 6" open spider coil for the Aussie.

Which model F75 do you have?
F75-ltd ( gold shaft )
F75-SE ( black or camo colour )
F75+
DST upgrade ?
+ probably other variants, it's been around since 2007-ish.

There's certainly some settings you need to get right ( or not get wrong ). I found it worked best with zero or 1 disc setting; maximum depth is achieved, and you get to hear everything ( not to everyone's taste, though ).
You have to love the 40 hours battery life.

[Montana]

Thanks for reply. I'm in the States, in Montana. I do like the Fisher F75 SE and have been using it to coin shoot, so yes I like it. I understand its issues when used in 2 or 3 tone and how it puts iron discrimination back into preset iron discrimination zone of 6 to 15, even though set at 6 discrimination or below manually, and hence the need to go to single tone mood or all metal mode and to dig, if hunting in UK sites, all non-ferrous sounding targets, because of your vast range of non-ferrous targets. I'll be in UK MD'ing in October and bringing my xp Deus, which can't go in belly of plane because of lithium battery prohibition. I wanted to bring back up detector to go in belly and so was thinking about Fisher F75, which will be allowed to be shipped in belly of plane. Thus, I was wondering how you Brits, if any are using the F75, like or dislike it. I've read Gary's Blackburn's favorable review of F75, when F75 first came out and before he advocated for GMP and xp Deus I and II, and so was wondering if any of you over the pond like the results of the F75.Stay well and kind regards, Best, Steve

[Fusion]

I thought it was OK, I used it as my main machine for 8 years. But like every machine, it has it's quirks, there are good features and bad:
Good:
40+ hours battery life.
The ergonomics are good, it's easy to swing, even though it's not that light.
Trigger-switch pinpoint is nice.
13 kHz is a decent all-round freq, not so great on higher conductor targets, eg. deep milled silver/copper coins, but good on the lower conductor stuff like ancient coins.
Wide target ID range of 85 points.
Pinpoint mode / non-motion mode performance is very good.
Perfect 5" DD coil - small, smooth flat bottom, decent performance.

Not good:
Weird quirky sensitivity variation with Disc setting in DE mode, and no useful explanations, guides etc in the user manual.
Large coils just don't seem to work on it ( despite T2 users saying they do on that machine ).
I don't care for having the headphones plug in behind the elbow-cup.
Doesn't pack away that neatly - one very long part, one short, one medium. ( part of my shaft rebuild project is rectifying this ).
Garbage quality coil connector, with no provision for any strain-relief. I've lost count of how many times I've repaired mine ... probably annually for 8 years.
Prone to electrical interference pickup, rendering it of limited use in some locations.
Like most single-freq machine that run at a higher frequency, it's hot on coke ( part-burnt coal ), which can get tiring on UK farmland.

It seemed to me that it was a totally new design, using DSP microprocessor to perform a lot of the signal processing. Which worked well, but came with plenty of issues to sort out ready for the next model "F80".
But ... they never did, they just carried on making it for 15 years. So disappointing.

[Montana]

Thanks for taking time to give informative response. I appreciate it. Cheers, Steve