Fisher CZ 20
Street Price $1000 - Beach, water
Number of Reviews: 25
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A.W. Cole in PA -
I bought a cz20 in 1996, after having used a Fisher land detector for 15 years before...I should have known better.
The original VLF555D detected and discriminated well, but was not of production quality- looked like it was put together in somebody's basement. Terrible engineering and support from Fisher, with a user manual that was an absolute joke. Positively stupid battery packs (2 packs of 6 AAs each)quickly replaced with 2 alkaline 9 volt batteries, and the machine worked better and did not eat batteries nearly so quickly. All through ownership customer support on any problem (and there were many due to poor construction/ soldering) was non-existent.
So I bought the cz20 to do beach, surf, and underwater work. Much better balance than the older model, nicely neutral underwater, but highly variable results. CZ20 LOVES lead, will go deep to find small pieces however often can't find copper or silver coins at 2". Once reached thru almost 40" to yield a 2 lb lead bullet weight. If you want lead, and are prepared to dig, this might be your machine. Again no help from the factory except "Send it back with lots of $$ and maybe we'll fix it or maybe we'll make it worse".
I will never spend another penny on a Fisher product.
Mar 28, 2009
18 Yes
3 No
lemon cz21
nicky harvell in fort walton bch., florida usa -
I purchased a brand new cz21 in April. It arrived broke. Sent it back and instead of sending me a new they said they only fix it. Got it back after more than a month used it very little and it went completely dead. Now its back and fisher is giving a big run around. I paid $1200.00 for this nightmare and warn anyone out there not to buy a fisher. They are of poor quality and over priced not to mention of the poor customer service.
Nov 25, 2008
34 Yes
20 No
Feel good from Fisher Labs Customer Service
Suwan Kansanoh in Thailand -I feel good from Fisher Labs Customer Service's message, even I felt guilty that I was disappointed when I first heard about the repair cost.The Fisher Labs proved that the company is a professional one. The service comes first. My new detector must be Fisher's, ofcourse.
Mar 11, 2008
18 Yes
21 No
Bad service form Fisher lab
Suwan Kansanoh in Thailand -
I have a bad experience with the Fisher Lab's service. My only one CZ-20 was broken down in September, 2007. I contacted the dealer in Thailand that I bought the detector from. He's a nice guy, actually. It later was sent to the Fisher Lab in USA. I was informed after one month pass by that the cost of fixing is $US 928.77, including freight and labor cost. It's costly, isn't it? The point is that I think the Fisher Lab is tricky. They don't mean to give you CZ-20 service anymore. They want to sell the coming CZ-21 rather than fixing the old model, CZ-20. So, they charge you so higher that you can do nothing, but you are forced to buy the new one. This is the way company cheats you. Next time if you want to buy a new metal detector, I want to remind you that think over the good service, rather than the new body cover of the CZ-21¯ There are many brand names and types of detector at the moment. Make sure you get new one with a good service. Fisher Lab is not providing you good service anymore, I bet!.
Oct 29, 2007
28 Yes
5 No
CZ 20 THE BEST
Bob Uhl in Lakeland,Florida -
I have had my CZ 20 sence they can out 1993 0r 94.some where in there. It is all beat to ^&%$# the best detector there is.I hunt from Florida to Nevada to New York State...#1 AAAA
Sep 20, 2007
9 Yes
3 No
Wish I could find another CZ20 with my CZ20...
kanuckster in brunn am gebirge, austria -but whoever has one will make sure never to lose it!
originally from canada now living in austria, iˇve found it "all" over here, unbelievable.
I primarily do land and the unit is outstanding.
if this unit could only find the brain of the person who lost theirs and decided to stop production of the CZ20!
Jul 24, 2007
4 Yes
3 No
For scuba diving the CZ-20 is an excellent choice!
Marco in Northern Europe & for scuba diving only -Since three years I use the VLF dual frequency CZ-20 with a small 8" coil exclusively for scuba diving in the Baltic Sea. It is a great machine and I do a lot of nice findings with it. The CZ is very robust and an effective detector with a good search-deep. I never used it on land but I think it would be there a very heavyweight detector.
Positive:
Underwater a lightweight with a stabile shaft, a robust small searchcoil (ideal for underwater searching). The detector and his knobs are easy to handle and this with three-finger-gloves for the wintertime, too . The wires are ok and the headphone is easy to clean and very robust. The CZ has a very good discrimination. The batterybox is seperate, so if the detector gets some water in, the main electronic will not get any damage. It is resistant against fine sand and mud, like in lakes or the open sea. The three tone ID is very precise. You can see the objects ID at the 2 red glow lamps, too. If necessary, you can also use spare-parts from Fisherˇs 1280 (knobs/seals). It has a small updraft. You can use it up to 76 meter water depth (124 PSI water pressure)!
Negative:
It uses four expensive 9 Volt batteries. The pinpoint button will probably break if you use it very often. I suggest to use the "Autotune" mode instead of the button, because it has the same function. Once a year the machine had some problems with a type of red-alga on the seabed of the western Baltic Sea. The cells of these algas are full of iron, so the machine runs very instable. The machine is not so effective or easy to handle on high mineralized seabed.
My judgement:
It is a great machine and I would buy it again. The shaft is very stabile in comparison to other detectors like Tesoros or Minelabs. Its a turn on and go machine, easy to handle and high efficient. After a year of experience you will find much more in shorter times. I dont know why Fisher stops the production of the CZ-20! It is much more powerful than the weaker 1280.
May 28, 2007
18 Yes
1 No
Awesome!
Karl in Sarasota in Sarasota, FL (USA) -I've had the CZ 20 10 1/2 coil for 2 months and still learning it, dug a penny at 20 inches couple weeks ago, been hitting the same beach and others in Sarasota but they are out of the way, learning curve showing results as I dug 80 or 90 coins today all low denominations, micro pennies, nickel and dimes mostly and have heavily worked this beach and mostly stuff I've missed, competition I just don't think they have the right stuff, talked to a couple guys hitting the water using Excalibur 1000's and they said they were hitting stuff at a foot deep... a Bounty Hunter can almost do that?!? I just won a 8 inch CZ 20 on E-bay today to add to the 10 and the Pulse 8 (its to deep to play with on the beach,only water)next will be the 5 1/2 CZ if I can find it! Wanting to find a Salvage crew on the east coast next year to ply the experience!
Dec 10, 2006
13 Yes
2 No
Wish I had two CZ 20s
John Mulder in At the bottom tip of South Africa -Have used CZ20 for more than 4 years and found uncountable coins and heavy metal jewelry, mostly in the white water. Dec/Jan 2005 found 52 rings in 60 days.
Nov 21, 2006
15 Yes
0 No
Excellent Customer Support
BJ in Spain -Had the CZ for a short while and took it diving, it broke, so shipped it back to Fisher Labs, they fixed it, took it diving and it broke again inside 20 minutes. Contacted them and said that I could not afford to keep shipping it back as I live in Spain. They no longer make them but did build me a new one from scratch, so far have only used it on the beach and will probably never use it in the water, have a Garrett for that now.
Is a great detector and finds many coins and a few rings but not at the depths some people state, usually at a max of 6" and as I have found well over 300 coins with this I would argue that the CZ is capable of those coin detection depths but in defence of those claims the European coins are quite small and it may have something to do with the metal composition as to why I am not getting any deeper coin finds. I have had deeper finds but Always large trashy things like cans, foil or large bottle caps..
In summary a very good beach detector with outstanding support..
Oct 24, 2006
4 Yes
1 No