Jeff McClendon Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 John in Edmonton AB made this short video showing VDIs including a small gold picker and two short target recovery/separation tests. https://youtu.be/vxdeA1F91Yk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Thanks for the link, Jeff. A couple (small) surprises for me: a) he said he's had it for about a week; b) the lead bullets didn't appear to air test as deep as some of the gold (relative to size, anyway). I assume he's not a Garrett shill even though he was wearing an advertising t-shirt. Maybe they include those with the first released detectors? I wonder when he did the recovery/separation part of the video if he was notching out iron. I didn't hear the nail. I suspect (hope) we'll be seeing a lot more on the Apex even in the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff McClendon Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 12 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said: Thanks for the link, Jeff. A couple (small) surprises for me: a) he said he's had it for about a week; b) the lead bullets didn't appear to air test as deep as some of the gold (relative to size, anyway). I assume he's not a Garrett shill even though he was wearing an advertising t-shirt. Maybe they include those with the first released detectors? I wonder when he did the recovery/separation part of the video if he was notching out iron. I didn't hear the nail. I suspect (hope) we'll be seeing a lot more on the Apex even in the next few days. John was an official Apex tester. The Apex he is using in the video is a production model. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 On 8/27/2020 at 10:49 AM, GB_Amateur said: Thanks for the link, Jeff. A couple (small) surprises for me: a) he said he's had it for about a week; b) the lead bullets didn't appear to air test as deep as some of the gold (relative to size, anyway). I assume he's not a Garrett shill even though he was wearing an advertising t-shirt. Maybe they include those with the first released detectors? I wonder when he did the recovery/separation part of the video if he was notching out iron. I didn't hear the nail. I suspect (hope) we'll be seeing a lot more on the Apex even in the next few days. John is not a shill but what I’d call a brand loyalist, uses Garrett pretty much exclusively. Informative posts, never talks down the competition. Good guy, but don’t expect he’ll ever say anything but nice things about Garrett. The Apex shipped out to “influencers” like John is boxed with a Apex hat and shirt... another smart marketing move by Garrett. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazzie Ozzie Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 Hi guys I am told the Garrett AT max ground balances verywell in our highly mineralised WA goldfields in Australia (175 points of ground balance). It also picks up a lot of small gold here. Knowing this would the garrett ace apex behave similarly, i.e. does it have similar ground balance features etc? Waz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 15 minutes ago, Wazzie Ozzie said: Knowing this would the garrett ace apex behave similarly, i.e. does it have similar ground balance features etc? No. They are completely different metal detectors from a performance perspective. If you mean control similarity, there is a lot of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazzie Ozzie Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 Cheers Steve. I was really asking does the apex have the same ground balancing capacity/settings as the AT max? Some guys here in perth said they can ground balance well with at max in our wa goldfields. So was hoping the apex was similar with regards to ground balancing. .... Waz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL NINO77 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 HI-RESOLUTION GROUND BALANCE175 points of ground balance resolution (like the Garrett AT Max), ranging from ferrous ground to saltwater. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazzie Ozzie Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 The AT max has found some pretty small gold after ground balancing in hot ground (so im told)...so hopefully there wont be any issues with sensitivity to gold once I ground balance in the mineralised soils. Unless something with the Apex settings suggests it may? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemia Miner Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 At first I'm thinking, no threshold, no small gold. I did an air test (@ 20 kHz) and it found a 1.5 grain nugget at 1 inch ! I was glad to see that as the launch video indicated it would find "small gold nuggets". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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