Fisher CZ 20
Price: $1000
Avg. Score: 
4.45
Based on 29 reviews
4.45Based on 29 reviews
Avg. Durability:
5.00
Avg. Ease of use:
5.00
For scuba diving the CZ-20 is an excellent choice!
May 28, 2007
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 FisherŽs 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.
Overall Rating
Marco from
Northern Europe & for scuba diving only
451
Awesome!
December 10, 2006
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!
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Karl in Sarasota from
Sarasota, FL (USA)
154
Wish I had two CZ 20s
November 21, 2006
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.
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John Mulder from
At the bottom tip of South Africa
201
Excellent Customer Support
October 24, 2006
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..
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BJ from
Spain
112
Cz-20 gitts'er done.
October 09, 2006
Of the many water detectors, the CZ-20 is built like a tank and has two
trans. Frequencies. It gives you 3 different tones for target ID. You can
increase your finds by setting the Disc. At 1 and skip digging the high
tones which are coins and only scoop the mid tones which are pull tabs and
90% of the gold rings lost. Only two problems with it.
1. Fisher is now owned by First Texas, the Bounty Hunter people. Everyone that has one wants to upgrade.
2. The repair now is impossible for it thru Fisher as they won't repair them except at a huge $$$ cost.
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Sandman from
USA
211
Makes things easier
September 23, 2006
It's like this, I have used a White for a long time and have had good
sucess, however, I have a good friend that uses the CZ-20 and watching him
it seemed he was having better sucess finding things that I wasn't finding.
So haveing money to blow I decided to go and buy one today and go to an
area I had hunted over and over for the past two or three months to see if
I had left anything. We all know you can prety much find something
everytime you go back but not the amount of things that I found. Believe me
when I say I covered that small area heavly. Right off the bat I found a
walking liberty half about 6 inches down, a watch and a varity of other
coins. I believe I'll set the White back to use as a backup.
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Gary from
Tulsa, Oklahoma
110
Cz-20
July 07, 2006
Crazy deep, found gold ring with stones first weekend I used it, if you can
get your hands on one grab it and run.
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Bruce from
Toronto
140
Great Machine
June 05, 2006
Well built just like other fisher detectors long battery life and gets the
gold! Impulse id good too!
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Dave from
Japan
120
Greatest of all beach and underwater detectors
April 19, 2006
Best water machine ever built. I have two of them and have dug hundreds
of gold rings. Glad I have two as Fisher no longer makes this model.
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Ken from
Hawaii
170
Best water machine made!!!!..........
December 03, 2005
Hands down, it is the Rolls Royce of water machines! Built like a tank to
last many years, with a lifetime warrenty. Goes very deep too! I love it!
:)
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Mike from MI from
SW MI USA
230