What a great forum!

[Sekiar]

I just found this great forum this evening after searching the www for updated information on the latest and greatest metal detectors available today. What a surprise for me to see mentioned some of my Circuit Circus metal detector circuits and the cover photo of my dated metal locator book. Once again I'm getting back into detectors and will spend hours here reading up on what new and old. Cheers, Charles D. Rakes

[detectoman]

ok my congratulations for you sekiar you,re welcome

detectoman

[detectoman]

ok my congratulations for you sekiar you,re welcome ok

detectoman

[Geo]

I just found this great forum this evening after searching the www for updated information on the latest and greatest metal detectors available today. What a surprise for me to see mentioned some of my Circuit Circus metal detector circuits and the cover photo of my dated metal locator book. Once again I'm getting back into detectors and will spend hours here reading up on what new and old. Cheers, Charles D. Rakes

Hello Charles.
Welcome here.
You can teach us again.
Some time we made your detector
Best Regards

[ivconic]

Welcome here !

Treasure Witcher...? Right?

I wanted to make it, few years ago....only couldnt obtain CA3035 ic...
Transistor substitution wouldnt give good performances so i gave up.
But that TX i used in other design and it is working right. Later experimented more with it and replaced UJT transistor with quartz oscillator...
Anyway, i still think your idea is very good, only have to find proper substitution for obsolete components.

Again very welcome here!
Best regards!

[Max]

I just found this great forum this evening after searching the www for updated information on the latest and greatest metal detectors available today. What a surprise for me to see mentioned some of my Circuit Circus metal detector circuits and the cover photo of my dated metal locator book. Once again I'm getting back into detectors and will spend hours here reading up on what new and old. Cheers, Charles D. Rakes

Hi Charles,
welcome on board !

Kind regards,
Max

[Carl-NC]

Hi Charles,

What a nice surprise to have you drop in. I always enjoyed your magazine column. I hope you don't mind my posting your detector articles... I did ask Larry Steckler shortly after the demise of Poptronics (a very disappointing end to the fantastic legacy of Hugo Gernsback), and he said he did not mind. I also have your 1967 article I would like to add.

What are your goals for metal detection circuitry? Are you writing for a publication, or looking towards another book?

Regards,
Carl

[Qiaozhi]

I just found this great forum this evening after searching the www for updated information on the latest and greatest metal detectors available today. What a surprise for me to see mentioned some of my Circuit Circus metal detector circuits and the cover photo of my dated metal locator book. Once again I'm getting back into detectors and will spend hours here reading up on what new and old. Cheers, Charles D. Rakes

Hi Charles,

Welcome to the forum!
I have a first edition copy of your book in my collection.

[ivconic]

"...I also have your 1967 article I would like to add...."

C'mon Carl! Add those!

[Sekiar]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Really surprised, and thanks for your kind words. Carl you may use any of my circuits from my books and magazine articles in any way you like.....I hope they won't put every one to sleep. After the magazines closed their pages for good I lost interest and have not been doing any circuit work. However I've become interested in the new breed of metal detectors and was so glad to find a forum that looked on the tech side of things and where people could speak out about the quality/performance of any detector. Will be looking daily to try and catch up from the 80s. Cheers, Charles

[detectoman]

ahhhhhhhhh you is charles rakes? is this truth? , increible, oh man my congratulations and wises for you, and you family, i apreciated to you very much, i read yours projects very times are in geotech, i build anyone, is fabolous your presence here, what years old is you man? i not speak english apologies, i am very suprised, i am your friend, reciba un fuerte abrazo, yo primeramente experimente con sus sencillos pero efectivos circuitos, y fueron muy apreciados por mi, y me ensenaron a conocer los funcionamientos, yo estuve investigando sobre usted y si todavia vivia pero no pude encontrar nada, ahora me siento muy contento de haber sabido de usted, esperamos photo of you for us
un abrazo charles y gracias por sus libros y compartir sus tegnicas sin egoismo, son muy actuales aun y son muy estables
con gran aprecio
detectoman

[detectoman]

hello charles, what brand metal detector is best for you, in vlfs and two boxs or in two antens
hope you put soon opinion in tgsl forum and in two boxs yeeaaaaaaaaa
best regards my apreciate friend