White metal detectors
White’s metal detectors are valued to be the best in the business. But the company did not start out with metal detectors. Actually, Ken White and his wife, Olive White, started as prospectors for uranium. When their Geiger counter was not adequate, the headphones used made them not hear rattlesnakes approaching, he decided to build his own. The product has proven to be very good, so he offered his design to the manufacturer of the discarded machine, but they ridiculed him. He decided to go into business on his own, employing another worker, whereby they were able to build one Geiger counter a day. They became very successful, they had to expand and within a decade employed over sixty workers. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter, the United States government abandoned the public purchase of uranium.
One of the dealers suggested to the Whites to switch to manufacture of metal detectors. They built one prototype, which the dealer used to check the efficiency. He found some artifacts, coins and a silver item, which has proven that the product works. From that time, the company constantly expanded and developed the metal detecting apparatusses; recently there are over twenty different units in their product catalogue.
Son Ken White and Mary White are leading the company now, improving the designs and bringing the metal detecting into the twenty first century. Their current flagship model, DFX 300 E-Series metal detector, is a sophisticated machine with the capability of accepting user programmed interfaces, or using one of the many available user and professional designed programs. The patented signal filtration uses up to six ground filters, in order to work better in waste laden areas. The supplied nickel cadmium battery is able of up to fifteen hours of uninterrupted function. Pricing is a bit steep, around twelve hundred dollars, the British outlet, located in Scotland, has the price tag set at almost nine hundred British pounds.
But there are metal detectors available for any purpose and also for any pocket, most notably a waterproof unit, called the BeachHunter 300, which allows for metal detecting in and out of the water. It does not matter if it’s saltwater or freshwater, is meant to provide the ultimate ease of use and employs batteries which are of the common “AA” kind, providing up to twenty hours of treasure hunting. The control box is detachable and there is a pouch delivered with the unit, in order to wear it on the hip or mounted on the chest. It is waterproof up to twenty five feet below the water surface.
