Fisher F-75

serious quaulity issues

Terry in Anytown, AT 55555 -
Nothing but trouble since day one. Spends more time being repaired than in use.In the field.All kinds of noise. Jumping display.I think these things are being slapped together to fast down south of the border. And problems are not caught until you buy one.If you read around and check forums you will see many owners with problems. At least before they are deleted that is. I see most reviews here are not that favorable of the 75. With exception of that guy who lives close to the factory. Who is constantly pushing this machine. Not sure what his motive is. But i remember him trash talking all machines until this one. Anyway i would have to say buyer beware on this one. I would give it no stars but the ratings dont go that low.

Aug 15, 2007

14 Yes
18 No

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The more I use it the more I like it.

Mike Hillis in Albuquerque NM -
The more I use the F-75 the more I like it. I like jewelry hunting with it in city parks and athletic fields. I put it in JE mode, set the sensitivity to around 30-35, raise the disc to the max and then go back and notch in high iron and both the lower and upper foil notches and then add the lower nickel notch and use 2+ tone mode. FastGrab and go. Swwwweeeeetttt. The key is a good steady tone, watch the depth bar and dig it!

Sometimes I'll just clad hunt with it. DE mode, senstivity between 40-50 and 3 tone mode. Easy to tell coin from trash. Sometimes my nickel count will outdo my dime count. How often can a person say that? In the high trash spots I'll lower the sens another 10 points and use the notches to reduce how much audio I have to process. Works just as good as a 4" coil that way. Sometimes the bottle caps will get to me but most of them will either give a wide number variation or the deeper older ones will spike the FE meter. I can't say the steel bottle caps have really been a problem with my F-75 like they were with my T2.

In the iron sites, DE mode, 2+ tone, disc at 6 and just piddle around listening for that high tone. Use the pinpoint feature and see if you can seperate whats down there as well.

In the homesites/ghost towns, watch the FE meter. All those buried flattened cans and flat iron will give often give a high tone but the FE meter will give them away. When in doubt pull the pinpoint trigger and listen to that large response.

The hardest thing to learn about the F-75 is turning down the sensitivity setting. That and learning how to look at all the information displayed on the faceplate. But once you do, man, I am finding it to be a sweet machine.

The only draw back is the response speed will ruin you toward using some of the more traditionally engineered units.

I would have liked to see the notches go all the way into the high coin range.

I really like being able to choose if nickels will give a high tone or medium tone.

I rate it 5 stars.

( I also use the ExplorerII, Golden uMax and until just recently the DFX, Xterra 70, and CoinStike)

I am a Fisher shill :)

HH

Aug 14, 2007

18 Yes
5 No

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Problematic

terry in anywhere -
More time being repaired than in field. Goofy noises, numbers jumping, etc. I know electronics, I work in this field. And sorry to say, but I feel this detector is crap, and have had many to compare to.

Aug 13, 2007

6 Yes
26 No

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What i like in a detector

Lars in Seattle WA -
What i like in a detector. Is a machine i can turn on and not listen to what i would call excessive chatter. such as the 75. and not have to make excuses for the thing. such as it makes alot of noise because its so sensitive. and you cant turn the sensitivity past 10. in one area. you cant turn it on and use near cell phones. big buildings. radios. etc and on and on and on. its big selling point was how much better it would be than the t-2. interference wise. but the t-2 i had was much better than my 75. it did not have to be out in the boonies to operate. but it was another machine i did not care for. to sum up what i want to say is for a thousand dollars.it should be fantastic. but i get much better results from a x-terra 70 or a whites m-6 or a cz-3d and many others. what i like in a detector is one i turn on and it just works. and operates smooth no excuses. no build quality issues.

Jun 30, 2007

21 Yes
7 No

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Not a good coin hunter

dave in pa -
So many rave reviews. but not what i thought it would be. This thing is supposed to be working in the iron, but I don't see it. Static noise, crazy jumping display. I could not pull one decent target out of my stand by spots. Dug lots of iron + alum can slaw not one high tone until I switched to another detector.

Some guys on the forums say this is the best detector out there, I wont use his real name [will fagg] must be paid by first texas or something, because this thing is not so good. Demo this machine before buying. In an area with some modern trash. Relic hunters seem to do better with this one. Not what one would want in a park. One thing I have noticed alot of 75s and t-2s for sale, so its not just me.

Jun 23, 2007

11 Yes
17 No

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stinker

half dime king in NYC -
lots of noise. likes bottle caps.seems very fragile especially thin plastic faceplate cover. and power supply box for batteries under cuff. this really takes away from its looks also should be inside control box like xterra. also it was so hyped up that i was expecting super depth that it did not seem to have. but this is only the new fishers. first machine.if they work on it maybe in a couple years they will have somthing. not the worst detector i have used but far from great.

Jun 22, 2007

5 Yes
10 No

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Fisher F75 Thoughts

Roger in Norfolk uk -
Over the last five years i've tried most top line machines, none of them managed to replace my old favourite the MXT based on "finds rate", well not until the Fisher F75 came along.

The F75 is a very powerful machine and the sensitivity needs setting carefully for best performance, the controls and setup of this machine are a pleasure to use, one of the best systems i've used on a detector, so far i've found the PF processing mode and 2F tones work best for the conditions on my sites (plenty of iron), in tests i did the Pf mode also gave me the best depth and stability, although JE mode is possibly better for the small finds but seems more prone to interference with it's high gain.

I found it a nicely balanced machine you could swing for long periods, one niggle is the "spokes" on the coil, when working wet ground they tended to gather and hold the mud on top of the coil making it hard work unless you cleaned it off every so often, obviously no problem on the dry ground.

I usually use the discim set to 0 as this gives the best depth for me, i noticed raising it to 6 you do lose several inches of depth, so i try to go no higher than 4 and only go to 6 if i'm picking up plenty of interference, amazing how a setting of 6 cuts any chatter to a minimum.

A top class machine if the sensitivity is set sensibly for the conditions, you do not lose a lot of depth by reducing it, a test i did showed the machine only lost two inches between a sens setting of 99 and 55, raising the discrim loses much more depth than lowering the sens i found.
Thanks to first texas for this well thought out machine, ideal for hunting those low conductive hammered coins here in the uk.

Good Hunting.....Roger

Jun 18, 2007

21 Yes
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FISHER F75

scott in uk, lincolnshire -
im sorry but this machine is a total waste of time ,just awful ...it seems all the hype on how good it is was is tosh,and i fell for it ,complete waste of money,discrim is just awful,and ive found the machine to be irratic at times.cant wait to unload this machine,so i can go buy something decent.should have stuck with my xp goldmaxx.

Jun 07, 2007

7 Yes
15 No

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Kudos to Fisher for the F-75

Charlie P. (NY) in Upstate NY, US of A -
Well I?m glad I used a more interactive media than these reviews or I might have ended up with a different detector. I?ve owned my F-75 just one week, but that time includes the Spring Fun-Hunt put on by my detecting club.

The controls are brilliant. On/Off & Volume on the battery case up at your elbow. A single push button to advance the menu pointer one step and a knob to increase or decrease settings. The display is split into two columns, Discrimination vs. All Metal, so you only have to advance through half as many options ? use the knob while in the title bar at the top to chose the column you want. All routine options are written on the display, so you don?t have to carry the manual with you. A couple (like moving between the seven available frequencies or restoring the factory defaults) are button w/trigger and you?ll just have to remember.

Yeas: 40 hours on a set of AA Alkaline, 3.5 lbs all up weight, nicely balanced, easy to use. Good, solid coil to shaft attachment knobs. DD coil with 11? footprint on 6? width. Handy for poking in tight spots in STAT mode. Backlit display. Comes with rain covers and F-Point pinpointer.

Nays: Three piece shaft has some ?flex? when sweeping fast or encountering saplings/weeds. Faceplate is thin. This can be remedied with a PDA screen protector overlay from Office Max. Hard to read some of the display comments with bifocals (small lettering). Coil looks like a flounder skeleton.

As a ?close and play? unit I rate it very high. I was able to dig 9 clad coins and ZERO trash at a local park for the first time out (on my lunch break the day after I received it) and using factory default settings plus 55 discrimination level with 35 (nickels) notched in. My Minelab Musketeer Advantage (my detector for the past three plus years) would have had me digging two pulltabs and screw caps to every coin in that same park along with lots of foil.

I tried some ?tough? spots at the park near my workplace (I hunt there on my lunch-hours) and was able to find a quarter INSIDE of the metal monkey bars and coins at the base of metal ladders. Powerlines and a busy road just a Frisbee toss away and I had none of the snaps, crackles and pops the Southern Gentlemen seem to have experienced. I also start low and set my sensitivity up while listening to the ground where I will be hunting. Not in my kitchen days before a hunt. Deepest target I have dug to date was in the white sand at a volleyball court. Read a low 38 (tabs/trash) but the depth said 16?(!) I dug it just to see what it was. At 14? (two Lesche blade lengths) I found a 7/8? glob of mashed and twisted wire (aluminum ground wire maybe?).

The F-75 reads fast enough that I got a consistent 45 to 53 and 53 to 45 repeatable sweep (?de-dip, dip-de?) over what turned out to be a .30-06 cartridge case. The neck read 45 and the base 53.

At the Spring hunt? No interference from nearby detectors (I did mess up an older Garrett, or so I was accused ? so I moved and kept away). I found $1.45 in silver (six coins), next best I spotted for quantity was five dimes (hey, it was a free hunt for members, we?re low budget) and I didn?t see anyone else who did as well, though an MXT user trounced us all for copper cent-sized tokens. He?d locate and pocket two in the time it takes me to hunker down and spot the coin in my bifocals. Kids. He was also the one who got the five dimes.

I wrap my coil wire tight (a wobbly cable is moving metal and therefore a target to the coil). I use the best headphones I can afford (Detector Pro Black Widows and Rattlers), ground balance frequently and I don?t carry a cell phone or an ?on? pinpointer ? all sources of EM signals. Another trick for silent running is to use the two-second FASTGRAB ground balance and then switch into all metal mode and add two to the number. (i.e. from 75 up to 77). This makes a very silent search mode as it eliminates the falsing caused by the little and almost inevitable lift at either end of the sweep. You can also manually ground balance it slightly positive. That is tune to allow just a small increase in signal volume when you push the coil towards the ground.

If you are befuddled by the flow of information the unit is passing on to you, switch to 2F (two tones) and discriminate up to Tabs (55) and then notch in Nickels (I use 35 which notches in both high and low Nickel ranges; 26 through 35). Runs nice and quiet in my park. I like the delta pitch as the high tones really wake me up. Once you hear a 50¢ silver in delta pitch you?ll want to download that siren?s song for your cell ring tone.

I have no beaches, salt saturated sand or black sand to worry about. Perhaps that is the difference with my results. I did my research and chose the right detector for my needs, wants and personality.

May 23, 2007

17 Yes
3 No

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Fisher labs is back! !!!!!

DelawareDigger in Middletown, DE< USA -
The f-75 was worth every penny i saved up to get her! I sold a couple heavy- outdated units and couldnt believe how light this baby is! Even with a 10 inch DD coil. I now see why everyone wants one. This baby is soooooooo sensitive for both relic and coin! especially in the jewelry mode! Deepest disk mode I ever used. As soon as I heard David Johnson was involved with this I hoped he could help fisher get back to their glory days of the CZ + 1265-66 era- when they was #1. This detector has the potential to put them back on top. I had to wait as they was on back order- but right away i began pulling tiny items out of spanked to death sites! Deep as I want to dig is best way to describe. Had it working well on the beach to.
Not sure why this site lets people make false posts below? One dude in FL posts twice- why is that allowed? Shouldnt it be 1 per person? Maybe I'll post ten 5 star reviews then. The only other guy who disliked the F75 showed his obvious ajenda by telling people to buy a a Tesoro instead:( Overlook the adjendas and try one for your self! Or maybe you shouldnt or every site might be hunted out soon!
DD.

May 18, 2007

16 Yes
4 No

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