Garrett Infinium LS
Street Price $1000 - Beach, water
Number of Reviews: 26
on 3 pages.
Email this page to a friend.
Also in this price range:
Minelab Excalibur 1000
Fisher CZ 20
Garrett Infinium LS
Mis named, Not L&S , it is not for the Sea
Mike in Hawaii -
Will not work in sea with waves. It simply goes crazy in salt water with the slightest wave action. Un-usable in the surf zone. Mine is brand new and i will try to return it. It works satisfactory on land but the tone is maddening. I would much prefer a mono tone machine. It's called a discriminating machine but you will soon learn HiLo or the LoHi signal could be anything . I feel like I just trashed my allowance and have purchased a machine mis represented by it's manufacture. I will call Garrett tomorrow to see if something can be done. I purchased it mainly for surf hunting and mine will not function at all there.
Aug 16, 2009
7 Yes
9 No
Infinium LS finds the gold and silver!
Sandmagnet in USA -
I bought my unit used with the 8" and 10"x14" coils. It was falsing so badly and driving me crazy and I'm a very experienced MDer. I finally sent it to Garrett and they were great. The unit had a bad EMF filter, needed mode E and, new o-rings and they replaced the coil all under warranty.Now the unit is very quite and I haven't had to change anything on it in salt water. I hunt neck deep in water and it doesn't have any problems at all. It's a great unit and I wouldn't get ride of it for any other unit. I have found 9 rings in the last four trips! So, if you have trouble with your unit send it to Garrett and have them check it out. It will be worth the wait!
Jun 24, 2009
12 Yes
0 No
New up date
Scrooge in Florida -I posted earlier about false signals etc. I placed a call to Garrett and ended up sending the unit in for repairs. They replaced the coil and complete control unit. The unit is now quite and works well, it really is a deep seeking machine. I dug the back of an earring at about 6 inches.
Jun 08, 2009
5 Yes
0 No
The gold in my safe says it all.
Terry in Nor Cal -I was saving for a Minelab to work my claim. I barrowed my dads Infinium and found a one gram nugget in just a few minutes. This creek is highly mineralized and I have not seen a vlf machine that could handle the job. The Infinium operated silently up and down the creek. I raced home and bought my own. That summer I found countless nails, bullets, and six nice nuggets. One nugget was 12 grams. Only a couple rocks gave me a problem with a slight signal, but thats nothing compared to vlf machines.I dig everything, forget hi/low or low/high. Don't try to test for Iron unless you want to leave the gold for someone else to find. As nails and other metalic objects work there way down a stream they fall into the same cracks in the bedrock as the gold. Three out of six nuggets I found were shareing the same crack with a nail. The 12 gram nugget was in a large crack next to a quarter pound nut from a bridge. The rust on the nut stained my nugget. I got a signal 3 feet away and it was screeming low/hi. I found the nut first and tested the hole again and got a hi/lo. I pulled out the 12 gram nugget and let out a little hi/low of my own. If I used a discriminator I would only have found two nuggets last summer. My smallest nugget was without a nail and weighed a half gram, found at two inches. Any smaller than that and I can't pick them up. Anyway, great machine I highly recommend.
Mar 19, 2009
17 Yes
0 No
Infinium Handy Hints
Gold finder in Australia -I have had my infinium for a while now and it continues to outshine my other detectors for depth at the beach and in the goldfields.
Here are some handy hints by Adrian SS from the Garrett Infinium Prospector Network Forum.
MAKE SURE THE DISCRIMINATION CONTROL IS AT ZERO BEFORE YOU GROUND BALANCE.
Adjusting the disc control above zero may help quiet some ground noise in the gold fields, but setting it above position 3 will reduce response to gold by about 50% at a rough guess which will all but kill your chances of finding small gold between 0.3 and 1 or 2gms.
When you start getting some ground noise, re balance over that spot (MAKE SURE DISC IS AT ZERO BEFORE GB,ing) as best you can and also, switch to slow or fast track settings as necessary.
The discrimination control is normally used to get a rough idea of what type of metal you may have detected when searching the beaches or parks etc; When you get a signal, keep scanning the target and gradually turn the disc control up until the signal goes quiet or just changes from HI/LO to LO/HI or visa versa and note the position of the disc control at this point. By experimenting with various targets both in the ground and as a bench test and by learning the signal drop out or tone change point of your favorite target types you can now use the disc control to help identify these targets.
The best way to identify natural gold from iron in gold field conditions is to DIG ALL SIGNALS that are HI/LO or LO/HI in normal mode that REMAIN OR CHANGE TO HI/LO in Rev Disc at a REDUCED signal level or that disappear completely.
You will find that the signal from most small nuggets and large deep nuggets will disappear in rev disc; It is when you are getting close to them that the signal in REV DISC from gold will be heard as a HI/LO tone which is why you have to dig these reduced level tones; They may not always be gold but it is better to be sure than to leave a nice nugget in the ground.
You will find that the signal from rusty tin lids and some rusty nails will disappear in REV DISC but when you get close, the signal from these items will be LO/Hi....YOU WILL NOT GET A LO/HI FROM NATURAL GOLD IN REV DISC.
Adrian SS
Oct 04, 2008
42 Yes
2 No
Some things are just too danged good!
drayegon in Northern California -I started reading all these reviews of the Infinium LS. Everyone who wrote a review loved the one they had for this reason or that reason but no specifics. At least not to many this did it better and that did it better. Well folks here is a little bit different review. The first thing I found in the first hole Was a Large metal Clip. It was down maybe only an inch. It had been a while since I detected anything so I almost forgot to double check my self. I just took a second swipe and still had a small sound to the hole so I started my double check. I scooped everything into my plastic scoop. Gee it was in there. I figured it must be a small nail or maybe a screw from the clip. Well it turned out to be a rock. I spit on it. Sorry I do not stick lawn dirt in my mouth as I have several dogs and cats. The rock felt a little heavy and it started to show some white quartz. OK this is different. So later on it turns out to have a fine very fine line of color thru it. I am saving it for now. Next day out I found a large chunk of what later turned out to be lead. It had a funny white coating on it though. OK it was big weighed at least an oz. It was about 1 in x.5in.x.25in it did start to show some shiny surface after I scrubbed off one end of it. Yep lead. must have been from a bullet. I had not searched more than a couple of feet from where I was until it screamed at me again. I search and dumped it on the ground twice. I then started using from hand to hand. It got down to the size of a number 6 bird shot. Yes that is exactly what it was. I have even found some areas of black sand and maybe a few flakes. Still no big nuggies but what the heck it has only been three weeks. This is fun folks. Good luck to all. I would not trade mine. 73
dray
Sep 28, 2008
12 Yes
0 No
Black Sand
James in Garden Grove, CA -I've always liked the VLF detectors for their pinpointing ability. But there are many areas here in S. CA that you just can't hunt with a VLF due to heavy concentrations of black sand. It is liked you are being locked out of certain areas and that always bothered me. I've only been using the Infinium for a few weeks now but can honestly say I don't feel locked out of anywhere anymore. The tones and the pinpointing take some getting used to but if you want to walk through heavy black sand areas like you own them...then this detector gets the job done.
Aug 23, 2008
10 Yes
1 No
False Signals
Goldfinder in Australia -I have noticed a few people on other infinium forums and this one who say that they get false signals while operating in water. I wonder if these people are having some cable/coil shielding problems. My infinium is an older model but I do not get false signals while operating in saltwater beaches, that is,I do not get HI/LOs or LO/HI tones, I do get some very weak wavering of the theshold as the water level moves up and down the shaft which does not cause any problems, and I only have to re ground balance two or three times in the day.
I am pretty happy with my machines performance at the beach; It consistently locates Aussie 5 cent coins at better than 15 inches in the wet sand while using the 10x14 DD. These coins weigh around 3 grams and are about 0.05ins thick x 1/2ins diam.
One thing to be sure of when ground balancing the Infinium is that the DISCRIMINATION IS AT ZERO, and AFTER GBing the disc control can be moved up to around the 2 position if necessary to reduce the effects of the salt.If it set higher than 3 you will loose sensativity to gold.
Jul 08, 2008
25 Yes
0 No
18 inch mono/ Phantom No voter?
Goldfinder in Australia -I wonder how long it will be before we get an 18 inch mono for the Infinium. Gold will be going up in value soon so we will need the best chance possible of finding those deep nuggets.
I wonder who the gutless wonder is who keeps saying no to these reviews but won't say what he/she doesn't agree with. Come forward turkey and say your piece.
Jun 24, 2008
17 Yes
42 No
Garrett Infinium LS
Scrooge in Florida -I am not new to detecting, been doing it for over 20 years. Mostly on the beaches of Florida. The Infinium so far has been a pain to setup. You need to keep the coil wire wrapped tight to the rod or if worn on the waist don't let it get above the coil or you will get false signals. You must stay on top of the ground balancing and may have to do it multiple times during your hunt. I would not recommend this unit for a first time user. If you are going to buy this machine join some forums and read read read.
May 20, 2008
30 Yes
2 No