New Minelab Gold Monster 1000

[Steve Herschbach]

The Gold Bug 2 14" coil has a harder time in bad soil being a concentric, plus the higher frequency. The GMT 14" is a DD coil, so advantage there, plus running at 48 kHz. My tests on the GMT always had it doing better than the Gold Bug 2 for depth in bad ground, although the Bug always had that edge on the tiniest of stuff. No surprise then we see the GM1000 at 45 khz and with a 14" DD coil plus Minelabs ground tracking it might be a superior rig - for a VLF. Certainly lighter than the GMT. The Gold Monster looks a lot like something White's could have done many years ago but did not.

[~LARGO~]

35 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

 The Gold Monster looks a lot like something White's could have done many years ago but did not.

...yep, coulda, shoulda...   

LARGO

[TX Todd]

New guy here. 

Was a Minelab dealer for a while.

I am just curious about this new machine. I watched the video and as usual Minelab did a good job tweaking interest in their new offering.

If it's been asked and answered I apologize for asking it again. 

Is there a threshold and threshold adjustment for this Detector? I didn't hear it in the video. I could only hear audio tones of targets and the loud techno music.

 

Thanks

 

[Steve Herschbach]

Welcome to the forum!

There is no threshold adjustment. That's all we know at this time. Maybe the powers that be that watch this forum will provide a clearer answer.

[Guest Jennifer]

I have a couple comments I would love to share but I believe we're still bound by the NDA we signed before going into the presentation... my lips are sealed till they hit the street :(

[Cabin Fever]

Hope that time comes soon. The chart they show is a little vague in ways. 

It apears to beat other current gold detectors in "sensitivity" to gold but that looks to be in a very narrow range of nugget size.  

Bryan

[Steve Herschbach]

It's a marketing chart, simply illustrating 45 kHz as a nice compromise frequency between 18 khz and 71 khz. Frequency choice in a single frequency detector is always a trade off. What you gain on one end you lose on the other. The trick is to try and pick what is "just right" for the desired goal. Trust me, the GM1000 will detect larger gold!

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[Steve Herschbach]

Here is the GM1000 compared to the machine it replaces, the Eureka Gold. Click for larger image...

[Reno Chris]

Right - if you look at the chart and not pay close attention, it does kind of look like the curves means that the GM1000 will not see larger gold. After all, on the tiny end of things there is a size so small that it wont see tiny bits - every detector has that sort of limitation. If you read it that way too literally, you'd almost think no VLF could detect a large multi-ounce nugget - but that is not the case.

Instead, I think the chart is more to indicate the sizes for which the detector is optimized for. The concept being that the GM1000 is optimized for a wider range of targets in the small gold end of nugget sizes. Like Steve says, there are always choices to be made and trade offs in the design of metal detectors. The engineers who design metal detectors always have certain product goals in mind - different goals result in different kinds of detectors. I think the chart is showing that optimizing over a wide range was an important goal. I am sure that the GM1000 will see larger gold  just like other VLFs - no problem there.

[Cabin Fever]

I wasn't worried about it finding bigger gold. My thinking on the chart was that if it only out performs current gold detectors on the market in 0.1 to 0.9 gram range, would it be worth buying if you already own for example a Gold Racer like myself. 

There is definitely other features about the detector that make it attractive besides it performance though. 

Bryan