Fisher F75

Bazran09 October 2010

Superbly balanced, so that, even though it isn't the lightest of detectors, it feels as though it is when in use. You can happily swing this detector all day long and not feel strain. The large display is easy to see and adjustments to settings are made with just one push button and one rotary knob. The only other controls being the trigger switch for ground balancing and pinpointing, plus the main on/off and volume knob located on the side of the battery box. Runs on 4 x AA batteries - with a superb 30 hours plus from each set of batteries. The F75 also offers a permanently backlit display, which can be useful for people going out detecting on evenings and will give you an extra half hour or so at the end of a search day without needing to keep a torch trained on the display. The coil is a 'D' type and is excellent, but can be difficult to use in stiff stubble. A smaller 6" coil is available which apparently is even better at sniffing out small coins other machines miss but harder still to use in firm stubble. It can be noisy, especially over iron infested sites - but this is where it excels, since it will find the targets that others have missed due to masking of iron trash. The All Metal mode is its most powerful setting which I personally use most. You hear a lot of signal noises but soon get use to filtering the poor signals out, taking advantage of its powerful ability to 'average out' each sound and give a single, very accurate reading which the Discrimination mode simply doesn’t do.