The Fisher
®
Gold Bug™, the predecessor to the Gold Bug™-2, was
designed and engineered by Fisher
®
engineers from the ground up for
the sole purpose of finding deep, small, and large gold nuggets in highly
mineralized soil. Almost overnight, the Gold Bug™ became the standard
against which all other gold-hunting detectors were compared.
The next generation Gold Bug™, the Gold Bug™-2, is not meant to
be a replacement for the original Gold Bug™. Your Gold Bug™-2 offers
many of the successful features of the Gold Bug™ as well as some new
features, making it a distinctly different detector, but still designed for the
sole purpose of finding gold nuggets.
The first and foremost of these new features is the operating frequency
of the Gold Bug™-2 (71 kHz). This ultra-high operating frequency is
extremely sensitive to small gold nuggets, and it also offers a side benefit.
Because the Gold Bug™-2 operates at a different frequency, it can be
operated near an original Gold Bug™ without interference.
Also, a new mineralization switch on the Gold Bug™-2 can be set for
high, normal and low mineralization ground conditions. When set for
high mineralization, this new circuitry allows prospectors to hunt in areas
previously off-limits due to high ground mineralization or numerous hot
rocks. Although the original Gold Bug™ is known for finding small nuggets
in highly mineralized soil, the Gold Bug™-2 will set new standards for
both size and depth under many soil conditions.
Iron discrimination is another new feature. In the IRON DISC Mode,
you can identify hot rocks and small trash items like iron nails and other
ferrous trash before digging them. Use this mode in extremely trashy
areas to check a target for its iron content.
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Length.................................Extended ............................................ 53”
Collapsed ............................................ 40”
Weight ...............................Complete ......................................2.9 lbs.
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Control Housing ............................1.0 lbs.
1
Handle and Coil ...........................1.9 lbs.
1
Frequency ...........................LF Search ................................. 71.01 kHz
Response ................................... (V.C.O.)
2
Operating Modes ................1. All Metal Auto-Tune (Normal)
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2. All Metal Auto-Tune (Audio Boost)
3
3. Iron Discrimination
3
Mineralization Settings .......1. High Mineral
(attenuated, fast Auto-Tune)
2. Normal Mineral (fast Auto-Tune)
3. Low Mineral
(gain boosted, slow Auto-Tune)
Ground Adjustment ............Manual,16-turn, vernier dual-shaft,
precision potentiometer
Control Housing .................Dust, Moisture Resistant .....................Yes
Audio Output ......................Speaker .................. 2” Moisture Resistant
Headphone Jack ................................ 1/4”
stereo/mono
Manual Threshold Tuning .........................Located on rear of housing,
effective in All Metal, Auto-Tune Mode
Searchcoil ..........................Type .......................... Elliptical, Co-Planar
Size ..............................10” X 5” standard,
other sizes available
sPeCIfICaTIOns
abOUT YOUR GOld bUG™-2
