Live in the UK ? Dont buy a ACE350 Buy the Garrett EUROACE

[acaldin]

Just ordered the new Euro ace 350 .
I am new to this and didnt relaise that the american version wasnt set up for English soil and that the Euro Ace had been designed especially for European soil. I was going to order the the ace 350 iam so glad that i didnt. I might of saved a few quid but in the long run i could have caused a night mare if it went wrong. The circuit boards on the ace 350 and the euro ace are different so if your detector was to go wrong you would need to send it back to the states for repair. This would cause valuable time and extreme costs in transporting the machine back and forth. So please dont make this mistake for the sake of a couple of Pounds saving its just not worth it.

Edit:
Hi and welcome, I have edited your post from the numerous mentions of a certain Company....Whilst this site has no problems with people speaking of their good or bad experiences with companys i just felt that after you had mentioned the company at least on 3 other posts that people now know where you got it from.
Thanks Blackadder

[acaldin]

no problems thank you

[philip formby]

surely garrett would have some kind of repair facility in europe?

[Steve]

Hi,
I'm sorry but I don't see what the issue is with the machines. A lot of people on here have the Garrett Ace's, I for one havn't had any problems with mine, if you learn the tones of machine, you will know when or when not to dig.
I think most garrett machines come with a two year warranty and if your machine plays up and it's not operator error sending it back for warranty repair shouldn't be an issue and the freight costs should be minimal or not at all.

Just my opinion

Steve

[Blackadder43]

The difference with this new euroace is that it has been designed for UK soil conditions and not USA conditions....
This makes a lot of difference with ground balancing.......which many people seriously underestimate, especialy with machines such as the 250 which has no manual ground balance, it is factory preset and preset for USA mineralisation conditions.....

Also the discrim settings i believe have been altered...
Plenty of reason to look into purchasing one...
Having said that Cscope have been making detectors for UK conditions for many years...and are damn good at it....

[baoluo]

The ACE 350 and the Euro 350 are the same. The ACE is not calibrated to "Europe", how could it? You would have to calibrate it to each country or region. Not possible and Garrett knows it. The Euro ACe has a generic faceplate, that's it. The info coming out that the Ace 350 is somehow calibrated to Europe or England is just hearsay and has no credibility. I got my Ace350 from the US for US dollars and I just ignore the US coinage.

[mrix]

The ACE 350 and the Euro 350 are the same.

The Garrett Euroace is not the Garrett ACE350.

The info coming out that the Ace 350 is somehow calibrated to Europe or England is just hearsay and has no credibility

What credibility have you to say different

Cheers
mrix

[baoluo]

Because nothing has come from Garrett's that says otherwise. If they had recalibrated it, they would have been crowing this, but they haven't. All they did was remove the US coinage faceplate. When Garrett comes out and says "Yes, we calibrated the Euro 350 and here is what we did" then we can believe it. Otherwise it's probably just sellers in Europe trying to sell the Euro as "Euro-calibrated" so punters don't take the cheap option and by US.

[baoluo]

The EuroAce has 5 Iron discrimination segments rather than the US 4, but really, I don't believe that it makes the Euro that dramatically different at all from the US version. The proof will be in the testing. But don't be surprised if all it was, was a marketing ploy to get the edge on the European market, like their competitors are trying to do. The 350's modifications were budget modifications.

[simonnett]

So do you go for the Ace 250 or the Euro Ace 350?

What is the difference, is there any for the extra £80 or so?

That dam yellow though .......!

[mrix]

So do you go for the Ace 250 or the Euro Ace 350?

There is no Euro Ace 350, its basically just know as the Euroace

Cheers
mrix

[simonnett]

Anybody actually got a Euro Ace?

Has there been any so called Field Tests yet or comparisons against the 250?

[baoluo]

So do you go for the Ace 250 or the Euro Ace 350?

What is the difference, is there any for the extra £80 or so?

That dam yellow though .......!

I bought the Garrett Ace 350, I have it here with me now and I'm testing it out, slowly. The difference between the 250 and 350 is not that huge. If I already had the 250 (which I don't) I wouldn't buy the Ace/Euro 350 because the changes are not that dramatic. If I was really looking for a 'leap' I'd go for the AT Pro. But then at US$300 more than the 350, is it really a bargain?

[Blackadder43]

baoluo
This is the thing with the 350euro compared to the 250
The changes are not striking in your face ones...
They are subtle electronic and discrimination changes to compensate for the type of finds that UK and euro people are likely to find....Hammered etc...
And the discrimination i think has been tweaked to allow for UK and euro mineralisation and soil conditions....etc....
Its basicaly a 250 but catering for UK and euro conditions and not US coinage and conditions...
I think

[baoluo]

baoluo
This is the thing with the 350euro compared to the 250
The changes are not striking in your face ones...
They are subtle electronic and discrimination changes to compensate for the type of finds that UK and euro people are likely to find....Hammered etc...
And the discrimination i think has been tweaked to allow for UK and euro mineralisation and soil conditions....etc....
Its basicaly a 250 but catering for UK and euro conditions and not US coinage and conditions...
I think

I guess time will tell when a few more people get to testing it out. How much tweaking they have actually done will be known soon.