GPZ 19 Accessory Coil - Coming Soon!

[Steve Herschbach]

Hopefully a fully closed skid plate will be available at launch. This coil needs to ride on the ground instead of my back.

[Reno Chris]

I am looking forward to the larger coil, but also hoping that this means that serious work will begin on the smaller coil for the GPZ. I know the Aussie blokes want that larger coil, but for a lot of situations in the US, the smaller coil will be preferred. The salt groan is bad in a lot of locations that I prospect and increased groaning on the larger coil will be an issue. Conversely, decreased groan on the smaller coil, together with the ability to get in around brush and rocks will be welcomed.

[hawkeye]

Reno,

In your opinion, why would a GPZ 7000 with an 8 inch coil have an advantage over a SDC 2300? 

[Reno Chris]

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your opinion, why would a GPZ 7000 with an 8 inch coil have an advantage over a SDC 2300? 

Who knows! I've never seen a smaller coil for the GPZ, and Minelab may decide to make a 10 incher, not an 8. It might punch deeper than an SDC, but without having such a thing, no one can know. So its all 100% pure speculation at this point and your guess is as good as mine. Ask me what the advantages / disadvantages are or which one is better once I have a smaller GPZ coil in hand and have had a chance to use it. Then maybe I could offer a reasonable opinion.

[Steve Herschbach]

From a technical standpoint the SDC is a PI and the GPZ continuous wave. By definition the SDC is missing certain types of gold from being based on the GPX timings and tuned for a high resistance to hot rocks.

In other words a GPZ with small coil should hit certain classes of gold the SDC misses, but it may also light up more hot rocks in the process. Since it would see less ground however a small coil should handle salt ground much better.

The key for me having a GPZ is that a small coil for my GPZ should cost a lot less than an SDC. I also figure a small coil and the smaller CTX battery on the GPZ could knock a solid pound off the machine.

[1515Art]

I think if you happened to be passing through Vegas and while on your way you stopped into one of the casinos and found yourself at the table where they play the game will my gpz be deeper... Your money will be 40% safer going with the house as the house always wins in the end... Double down on a hard 19 increases the odds by 30% and split 8's.

anything else and you might be finding yourself someplace far out into the desert in a hole in the ground... Hmmmmm

[PhaseTech]

Yeah pretty sure I'll be chopping up an old 18" round skidplate to adapt to the 19Z coil. 

A 12" round GPZ coil would be dynamite. Thinking how deep one might dig a 1 gram piece running Normal (in suitable ground) and HY just boggles the mind. 

Anyone else wish there was an intermediate ground setting between Normal and Difficult? 

[Tryhard]

I would love to see a Ground Type between Normal and Difficult as I find the sensitivity difference between the 2 way to bigger a gap.

[goldenoldie]

I suppose there is a skid plate attached to this new coil however looking at how the loops overlap one another the skid plate must have a step up and down at their overlap points.

[RedDirtDigger]

I can't wait for the 19 inch coil to come out. Since upgrading from a 4500 to a 7000 I have had to drag the crowbar out of the truck to dig holes many more times compared to when I used the 4500. With a 19 inch coil I am sure the crowbar will get a good work out.  I am busting to look for deep large gold on some old patches with the new coil.

In virgin deep ground where the gold is over 5 inches deep (99% of the time) and the surface of the paddocks/slopes are full of BB's and wire  I have been using the double  target response of the Zed coil to discriminate out shallow rubbish and I have been only digging the deeper single signal targets with success. I can cover a lot of ground and am possibly only missing the odd bit of shallow gold. I am guessing with the 19 inch coil the double target response will occur down deeper to say 7-8 inches?. This will be a benefit in some particular spots I have where deep gold lays but the surface is absolutely trash filled.

cheers RedDirtDigger