Let me paraphrase a well-known saying. There are three things you can look at for a long time without stopping. How fire burns, how water flows and how Deus fans and Equinox adherents argue in the comments.
However, all lovers of instrument search can be safely and confidently enrolled in two main camps. The first are those who believe that a metal detector should work according to the principle “Switch it on and don’t need to think anymore.” That is, such a magic wand, where engineers have come up with everything and thought out everything for the work of a simple man in the street. The second category of diggers is confident that the device should give the user the right to choose to independently configure all possible and expected modes, formats, frequencies and energy consumption during the search.
And, each of these groups has its own truth and its own shortcomings in the philosophy of application. Oh, let's go through these examples.
The first category of people are lovers of instrument search, who go to the mine to relax. Well, here many will reasonably notice that all the diggers except the blacksmiths go to the mine to relax. I will explain that in my example I want to talk about people who go on vacation precisely from intellectual stress, workload and overload.
Well, you understand, after two weeks at work, in my head there are constant bills, contracts, acts, shipments, loadings, invoices, somewhere they messed up and the goods got stuck, there’s also a trial with my ex-wife, a lawyer, something’s stirring up, the elevator has been going on for two days didn’t work, the neighbor’s grandmother said “Call the housing office, find out, Stalin is not on you” And so on in many other equally detailed life options.
Why do such people go out into the field to dig, this is a typical escape to the ends of the earth from the category “Let me go to the Himalayas?” Honestly, there is no time and no need for such a person to sit for hours on specialized forums and figure out why a DD coil is better/worse/it makes no difference than a mono . The user of the metal detector wants the device to have only one button: “turn on and off.” Everything else must and must be thought out for him by the manufacturer’s engineers. There is a demand for this, and according to the laws of the market, the demand must be satisfied.
The obvious disadvantages of this approach to instrumental search include low efficiency and total omission of good places. It often happens that a digger, after walking through a field for a couple of days, will only dig up a dozen coins. Then, in the evening, he will meet a competitor (comrade) by the road, and he, sticking out his chest like a wheel, will show a swag filled with scales, plastic and coins.
The second category is people who really lack intellectual load in their lives. These are citizens who at work, day after day, turn the same conventional nut. For example, lawyers or marketers, or the head of the quality control department, or the head of the human resources department. I am convinced that each of our readers immediately remembered one of his colleagues who has a work load of two or three days in total per month. And they keep it only because according to the state there should be such a thing.
These days there is a carriage and a small cart. So they want and can, and even write something from their experience on the forums. These can spend hours telling friends from the first category why multi-frequency is needed and what the correct configuration of board components is. And naturally, such diggers are recognized only by metal detectors, where understanding the settings is more difficult than hacking the Pentagon website.
The most obvious disadvantage of complex metal detectors is the human factor. It can be most vividly characterized by Murphy’s first law (the law of the sandwich in French or the law of meanness in Russian) “If an engineer gives a technically complex device two connection options. Correct and incorrect. The installation technician ALWAYS chooses the wrong one.”
Simply put, a technically complex device, in most cases, is operated at one third of its real capabilities. At the same time, the user is sincerely convinced that he is getting all the goodies out of an expensive metal detector.
These are the thoughts out loud. Do you have your own thoughts on this theory? Write in the comments, it will be interesting to hear your opinion.