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Steve, OK, I guess that you all deserve the full account of why the PD1000 is not being released yet. This may make you laugh or cry but it is 100% true. The guy who was writing the software for me is a little unusual to say the least. he is autistic yet he is one of the foremost mathematicians on the east coast. Right at the time where the detector was undergoing its first tests, MR. P the software guy discovered a group of people penchant for eating raw food. Mr. P told me that he had to go to several meetings a week and that he was going to host raw food meetings at his home. Things went from bad to worse when another person he was doing work for pulled him in full time to work on their project as he made more money working full time. This all happened at the same time that I was receiving all sorts of feedback about people not wishing to have to wear the control box around their neck or shoulder, not wanting anything too difficult to learn and asking for a light weight detector. I had been working on an analog version all along. The problems of not having a reliable software engineer coupled with the feedback I was receiving led me to advance the Nemesis to be the first production detector. MR. P has now been replaced by a more normal type of person who I understand eats cooked food!!! This will allow me to introduce the PD1000 in the near future. OK, there it is. Now you know the reasoning behind the decision. I will say that the PD1000 no advantage of any kind over the Nemesis other than its selection of different search modes and a whole bunch of tricks such as allowing software to be downloaded to the MPU for upgrades etc. Dave. * * *

Steve, I have to admit that your response was both truthful and very fair. I am the first to admit that my detector is very late getting to you. there are many reasons for it being late. One obvious one is that I have not been able to afford to work full time on the project. One has to eat! Before I go any further, I want to make it perfectly clear that I am neither in any kind of competition with or have anything against Minelab. Indeed, I recently posted my opinion that Bruce Candy is a genius. He is indeed one smart cookie!!! Minelab detectors are without any doubt the best available at this time for prospecting. VLF detectors will find smaller gold than the Minelab PI's but they will neither handle severely mineralized ground or have the same depth on nuggets over a gram. I too own an MXT. It is a great little detector. David Johnson designed it a long time back and it is still a top seller. I also own a Fisher GBII. I have previously owned several Minelab detectors and found them great to use. One exception to this was an old SD2100. I am sure it is a great detector out in the countryside but I had to drive about 45 miles from the city until it became quiet enough to use. The 2100 picked up any and all electromagnetic interference. I also did not like the way it overloaded so easily and the tone sounded like a sick puppy dog to me. (Just my opinion). OK, I am sure that my detector is also not 100% perfect. I do however believe that it does have a few of those edges that you are looking for. I have cast the design in stone now so it WILL be shipping soon. One pleasant suprise is that I am very happy with it. I have no problems releasing it as a coin hunter or a US prospecting detector. I will however wait for the results from Australia before breaking open the champagne and declare it a detector than can be used world wide. The Nemesis is designed to be a light weight, simple to use, easy to transport or backpack coin and nugget hunter. There are no holes in the detectors response to certain size nuggets. Being a PI the sensitivity to really small gold is definitely not as high as a high frequency VLF. the Nemesis can detect nuggets down to a couple of grains. A VLF like a GBII will of course detect much smaller gold. The emphasis of the Pulse Devil design was on the iron discrimination circuitry. You yourself unknowingly set the direction of the design. Let me explain. A long time ago you posted a message on Eric Fosters PI forum asking the technical people why a detector cannot be made that can reject large iron? I guess that you must have lost a lot of time that day digging some up some large, deep iron somewhere? I got to thinking about the question and I figured out a way to do it. I bet that you never figured that you were instrumental in influencing the design of the Pulse Devil's electronics? By the way, all my detectors are Pulse Devil's. Pulse Devil is a generic term. The microcomputer version is the Pulse Devil "PD1000". The detector in the pictures is the Pulse Devil "NEMESIS". I had to smile when you asked bugwhiskers why he did not believe things said about Minelab but you take Dave's stuff as Gospel. There is a good reason for this. bugwhiskers is the senior technical engineer on the Victoria test team. He has built coils to my specifications as well as the transmit section and the coil amplifier - receive section and has conducted tests at Beggary Hill and Kingower as well as in other places. bugwhiskers knows only too well what a Nemesis can and cannot do. The guys from Prospecting in Oz have been a fantastic asset to me. Sure, the forum gets a bit bloody every now and again but most Americans don't understand the Australians. They love to fight. It is also extremely common for them to pull down large name brands. They are however the best bunch of people that you will find anywhere on the planet. OK, I will soon be releasing an explanation of the Nemesis. I will post it on Prospecting in Oz first. After 72 hours it will be available to all. I am really looking forward to taking some time off to do some detecting. I am currently suffering from a bad ear infection so I cannot fly until I get fixed up. I also have a sinus infection to go along with it that is resistant to antibiotics. With luck I will get back on schedule soon. I will be making a trip to England, France and Bulgaria. After that I will be going all around Australia. To end this message, I would like to let you all know a most important lesson that I have learned. NEVER announce that you are working on any product or products. Wait until you are ready to release them. I will be strictly adhering to this in the future. This said, I am about to file another patent. Dave. * * *

Hi everyone, I released the Pulse Devil "Nemesis" pictures early due to advice from many people who were worried about those who might be wondering if the detector was real or not. I was going to wait until I could add a write up and at least the field testing results from Europe. I decided to release the pictures first although I suspected that there would likely be an outcry about the lack of the supporting material. I guessed that I would still get some negative responses if I waited to release the full write ups and reports I have of course been proven right as one can tell from this forum Let me first expalin the Australian connection to the Pulse Devil "Nemesis": Although the US market is of prime importance, there were other some other major considerations. Australia has ground that most people here in the USA cannot even imagine. I was lucky enough to get some of the Prospecting in Oz guys to do some initial testing for me. They took two different search coils and the transmit and receive circuitry out into the Australian bush and performed tests for me. The places they went to had the very worst ground known to them in Victoria. This same ground has yielded thousands of ounces of nuggets and it still produces a lot of gold to this day. The signals from the ground were measured on an oscillosope powered by a gas powered generator. The team sent me pictures of the oscilloscope display of the ground signals by email. I would stay up until 4:00am to wait for the pictures to come in on test days. Without the help of the team in Victoria I can assure you that my detector would have failed in the worst ground to be found in Australia. I really owe the guys in Oz for their help which was so freely given. The test team are still involved in testing my design as well as comparison testing with other detectors. Some of the people involved have found many hundreds of ounces of gold in the past. The ground we have measured in the USA at its very worst causes a signal which (worse case) is about forty times less that the ground signals from Beggary Hill, Victoria, Australia. Sure I could release a detector that will work great in the USA. Sorry, I won't do that. I will release my detector ONLY after I can assure my potential customers that my design will work ANYWHERE on this planet. As to the testing, the initial development tests have already been made across the USA. The next tests will be made by the three US dealers. As Steve H is on this list he will soon be able to tell you if he likes the Nemesis or not. He and the other US dealers as well as Reg Sniff will be receiving a Nemesis to test. I think that everyone reading this forum will trust Steve and Reg's opinion. We will soon know if my detector will fly or if I have to go back to the drawing board!!! I sincerely believe that it will fly just fine but I like you will simply have to wait for all the test results. Sure the deecor has been a long time coming. I too have to earn a living as well as paying out for the parts etc for the detector. I have obviously not been able to spend 100% of my time developing it. Think about this before making attacks such as "where are the results" and "I am sick of waiting". Those remarks show an almost childish lack of understanding. It has cost me many thousands of dollars to develop my detectors and the technology behind them. I don't think that I deserve to be judged until after I take my first penny from my first customer. This is yet to happen. I have taken no money yet there are those people who are acting as though I am some kind of criminal for taking too long to release a product. Where is the logic in that? I have no partners, no investors and I have no bosses. I do however seem to have critics before my detectors have even gone on sale!!! Go figure if you can. Dave. * * *