Omega

[Brian NH]

I found a deal on an omega, 2 months old Software version 4 and with 10" Elliptical coil. $370 shipped.
Is this a good deal? How is stock coil?

 

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[Fletch88]

That's about average price. The stock elliptical concentric ran the smoothest on the 2 Omegas I have tried.

 

[Brian NH]

That's about average price. The stock elliptical concentric ran the smoothest on the 2 Omegas I have tried.

What do you think average price for used Omega?

 

[Fletch88]

I have seen them go for $300 with one coil to $450 with both coils. I had a version 4 and then a 6 and could not tell much difference between the two. The 11" Biaxial coil was too very sensitive to EMI for my taste.

 

[Man o' War]

If your going to hunt around power lines I'd stay away from the Omega.

 

[Fletch88]

I'd stay away from it if you are hunting anywhere close to anything electrical. Like a whole city!

 

[lostbaja]

Ive got a version 4 and don't have much trouble with EMI. Most of the "problems" that people have are due to running the sens wide open. If you do that, well yeah, it's gonna chatter. But even then the chatter goes away when you are USING the detector. Watch the videos, you'll see what I mean. For what it's worth, it's a pretty hot unit, and anything over about 65 Sens will get great depth and very little or no chatter. Mine chatters under powerlines, but so does my old Tesoro Bandido 2...and most any other detector.

I have the 11" Biaxial, stock 10" concentric, the little 5" DD and the 5x10" DD white coil. The 5x10 is the best of both worlds. If you are afraid of EMI issues, get either coil except the Biaxial and you will be fine.

I paid $400 for mine several months ago with the concentric coil. It's a little more than some have paid, but I got the box and all and it was like new. I have been very impressed with mine, and wouldn't hesitate to buy another.

 

[sws33]

I've had the omega for a couple years now and live in the city of Huntington Beach California and have no emi issues. One or two places out of the dozens I hunt can get a little chatty with sensitivity above 75 +/- but these places have underground transformers or high voltage overhead lines on towers. I bought a used T2 SE and it gets all my attention now as it is just a superior machine, especially depth wise. I don't understand why some have so many issues with emi unless they are nonstop running the sensitivity at 99.

 

[Fletch88]

I ran sens at 50-70% and had issues with 2 different machines. A version 4 and 6. It still seemed to get good depth even at 60-70% and I finally figured out after much research that that's just the nature of the Omega. A lot of people say "learn to hunt into the noise" much like the older T2 and F-75's

 

[tabman]

I found a deal on an omega, 2 months old Software version 4 and with 10" Elliptical coil. $370 shipped.
Is this a good deal? How is stock coil?

I had both the Omega and Gamma at the same time. The Gamma ran much quieter. I took the 8 inch concentric coil off of the Gamma and put it on the Omega and it ran just as quiet. The 10 inch elliptical coil is noisy but the 11 inch DD coil is nosier. The quietest is the NEL Sharpshooter coil. I've had both versions 4 and 5. I'm able to turn down the sensitivity down on the version 5, still hear the high tone and there's no significant loss of depth. I'm talking about a sensitivity setting as low as 60. The gain and sensitivity are on one knob and when I turned down the sensitivity on my version 4 to control the EMI I couldn't hear the high tone all that well. I like my version 5 much better, because they changed something to make it better. What? I don't know.

tabman

 

[Phantasman]

I wonder if anyone has used the NEL Hunter coil on an Omega. It is 1 1/2" longer than the 11" DD. I've heard better stability and depth with NELs and my Sharpshooter seems made with higher quality than my stock coils for an F2. The F2 is already stable and doesn't get any better depth with the SS, but the F2 doesn't have the parameters of the Omega.

The NEL Hunter coil on the Omega would be the real test to see if NELs advertising of better stability and depth is true.

 

[beano52]

I wonder if anyone has used the NEL Hunter coil on an Omega. It is 1 1/2" longer than the 11" DD. I've heard better stability and depth with NELs and my Sharpshooter seems made with higher quality than my stock coils for an F2. The F2 is already stable and doesn't get any better depth with the SS, but the F2 doesn't have the parameters of the Omega.

The NEL Hunter coil on the Omega would be the real test to see if NELs advertising of better stability and depth is true.

I'd be interested in this also. It seems that the "goto" combo is the Omega with the NEL Sharpshooter. That's the combo I use and love it.

 

[Dirtslinger]

I use the Gamma with a sharpshooter now. It definitely changed that machine. I'm still pretty green with it, so I have a lot of work to do yet, but it seems to fit my sites and styles.