Posted by Steve Herschbach Link: American Gold Prospectors
on 9/15/2009, 12:45 pm, in reply to "Re: Just curious, is this the Pulse Devil patent?"
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Hi Reg,
Well, that would be bad news as you yourself passed on to us from Dave in 2007 that he had a patent in the works to protect the Pulse Devil.
So was that just another thing Dave said that has turned out not to be true?
I find it inexplicable that Dave could be days away from demonstrating the Pulse Devil to you at one point and yet to this day has never been able to demonstrate to anyone anywhere that he has a detector that actually does what he says it does. Were the pictures we saw simply mock-ups?
The only reasonable conclusion at this point is that Dave just never could get it to work in the real world, at least not to the degree he promised. I don't care about all the details and production issues that were used so many times as excuses. I'm talking about just demonstrating the claims with whatever version of the instrument that exists. Dave always made statements to the effect that the machine was a fact and worked as claimed. That was always an unquestioned given to be taken on faith. And because Dave is a very intelligent person he has been given wide leeway in making such claims.
But as I noted once, if I claim to have made a cold fusion reactor in my garage, sooner or later I have to prove it. At the moment I really don't care about whether a Pulse Devil or Nemesis ever gets to market. I would just like for Dave to show someone, anyone, that he has not been blowing smoke up our posteriors all these years.
I mean really Reg, if it is just a matter of taking the PPD1 concept and refining it, why has no company or person to this day been able to create such a unit? The one and only thing that could be done to make a Minelab better at this point would be for it to discriminate at depth. But so far it has eluded Candy. I appreciate that other people are trying so no need for anyone to chime in with all the other units that I can't get my hands on that do what I and others are looking for. It is all just talk, talk, talk until somebody can actually demonstrate something that works.
Which is why it is so frustrating that Dave claims to have such a unit, but refuses to show it to any credible third party. Of course Dave would probably answer that he does not have to prove anything to anybody. I beg to differ.
I will write a check for $10,000 to the first person that can give me a unit that does what Dave has claimed he has had for years - a unit that can reach Minelab depths that will discriminate ferrous items to full depth. I'm not looking for 100% accuracy but something on par with VLF discrimination, which we all know is not 100% accurate. I'll bury two large nuggets just a bit deeper than an MXT can reach but well within most PIs reach. I'll bury ten various common iron targets at the same depth. The detector must clearly identify both nuggets as non-ferrous. Calling a large nugget iron is grounds for failure. The detector must identify eight out of ten ferrous items as ferrous. When in doubt the unit should skew towards mis-identifying ferrous as non-ferrous. If the bias were adjustable that is better yet. I don't mind digging a little just just to be safe, and I'm convinced that at absolute max depth there will always be a margin of error. I'm not looking for perfection, which seems to be Dave's stumbling block. I'm just looking for good enough.
I am dead serious. I have the money in the bank, and I will write that check. I do not care what the unitlooks like just so long as it is useable in the field. Now would somebody just put up or shut up?
Steve Herschbach
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