I have been loaned the Nokta Fores CoRe with the standard stock coil by Gary and have decided to do a personal review. The manual comes as an A5 booklet in 6 languages. As the manual and detector was on loan I decided to download the manual from the Nokta Detectors website and print out to prevent damaging Gary’s booklet. It is clearly a very well thought out and designed instruction manual in perfect English. One of the easiest I have come across for a while. The Fores CoRe has two displays , one on the body of the control box and one on top of the handle, which gives an instant readout of the target ID value. It is a well balanced machine and very light when compared to my whites V3i. The Fors has four pre-set programmes referred to as GEN, DI2, DI3 & COG. Which are accessed from the main menu and are very easy to change using the up/down rocker switches, once the program is selected the + & - rocker switches change the values. The 2 rocker switches on the side of the control box control all the settings and the display is clear and accessible in large text which is suitable for poorly sighted people. I set it to the COG setting which is the COnductive Ground program and is suitable for wet sand. The beach was originally all sand and now has a very large layer of pebbles deposited on top to act as a sea defence wall. In January this year the beach was all sand due to the storms and within 2 days was coated with pebbles again and the sea defences were back so I expected my finds to be almost zero. This was a very blowy and windy day with temperatures of 4 degrees with a biting cold sea wind. I arrived at the beach around 6.20 and decided to search in the darkness, as High tide was at 10.30 that day I needed to get a few hours in. I turned on the Fores CoRe and switched to COG setting and did a ground balance. The display was easy to read especially in the dark. The setup was easy and due to my disability I switched to mode 2 vibration function which I found to be very effective, combined with the display readings on top of the handle I could tell what was a good or bad target. I chose to reject all iron and set up the discrimination at 40 and above. During the 2 and a half hour search, the Fores CoRe found an impressive array of items. 3 x 1 p 2 x 20 p 1 x 2014 10 p 1 x pound coin I x bottle cap 5 x ring pulls I x silver wrapper 1 x 1 p badly corroded 1 x 2p I was happy with my haul, and found it to be an easy to set up lightweight detector suitable for the visual and hearing impaired. I will be sad to give it back. Many thanks to Gary’s detecting for the loan of the machine Andrew (Impos1) on the Garys detecting forum
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:39:49 +0000
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