GPZ 7000 Software Update 2 - Ground Smoothing & Semi Auto Ground Balance

[goldenoldie]

13 hours ago, Jennifer said:

This is great news, some may have seen my rant (and video clips) on Bill's forum experiencing a severe case of this side to side moaning causing me much grief and making it unusable as I learn this new monster,  thanks for the info Steve.

Jen 

Jen from reading your reports on the GPZ you certainly call it as it is, so good on you.

Therefore I look forward to further reports now that you have performed the latest update 2 to your GPZ .

I also enjoy my 5000 as you do, however I am interested if the new update Locate Patch setting will allow you to use the Normal Ground Type setting on hot ground such as at the RP, which you say is a perfect test bed for this update.

In regards to your video clips you make mention of on Bill's forum do you have a link to them?

Thanks and keep up informed with your honest and no holes barred reports.

 

[Guest Jennifer]

9 hours ago, goldenoldie said:

Jen from reading your reports on the GPZ you certainly call it as it is, so good on you.

In regards to your video clips you make mention of on Bill's forum do you have a link to them?

Thanks Golden, I don't work for a Minelab dealer, am simply a user so have no bias eather way so I simply state what I feel....

Sorry, the video wasn't on Bill's forum, my rant was, the video was here.... (I know the swing speed's fast, wanted to get the video quick to save upload time, still showed the sound it appears we now have a solution for)

 

 

[goldenoldie]

Thanks again Jen.

I am somewhat sceptical when reading reports from ML dealers.

I would expect our 5000's in Normal to be the same over that ground with our Evo coils?

Therefore it will be interesting to see how well the Locate Patch setting in Normal can tame cranky ground and hot rocks.

[mn90403]

I made it back from my moonlight trip.  I'll post it in a separate thread.  Let me just say here that most of our ironstones have been removed as a target with the Locate Patch software.  That still does not make more gold to replace that we already found!

[Mike54]

G'day All,

I finally broke my short drought (since the update) today, also I worked out how to get rid of those dreaded jitters I was experiencing with the GPZ.  I had to adjust the threshold up to 29 and wallah the jitters were gone.  The first Nuggy I found pushed the scales above the gram mark my best for a few weeks now.         The GPZ in my opinion is now the Machine that we have all been waiting for.    "THANK YOU MINELAB".     

Cheers. 

Mike.

[vanursepaul]

I upgraded at the Visitors Center in Georgetown

[1515Art]

I used the new update in the hot rocks and mineralized soil of the high Sierra for a few days and must comment the update is terrific, ground balance is faster and after running the coil over the ferrite ring and surrounding soil the ground noise for the most part melted away, this was true both on the first gb in difficult and a much better gb after switching to normal than before updating. I ran mostly; high yield, normal, sen-9, thresh-27 (will try 29 next time), audio smooth-off, vol-8, semi auto gb, everything was reasonably quite, switching to locate patch made everything very steady and subtle targets seemed to stand out against the background threashold better than with it off. The worst hot rocks still gave off a little high/low groan that was easy to differentiate from a compact metal type signal response. This was a great update for the conditions I was hunting (now if only the iron disc...). 

Need to put the coil over the yellow stuff as none this trip, still...the zed felt one with the force and I had little doubt I would hear the signal if it came.

cant wait for the next release, zed is getting so much better the next go should be sweet!!

[WesD]

I was kinda disappointed  with the locate patch filter on our local California Motherload red mineralized clay schist. In the past, the 7k was only operable in difficult ground setting, as every other swing results in a false signal using Normal ground setting.  Locate patch did not kill the false signals in the least, although at another patch with groaning ground,  the noise  was smoothed out nicely.

[Guest Jennifer]

9 minutes ago, WesD said:

I was kinda disappointed  with the locate patch filter on our local California Motherload red mineralized clay schist. In the past, the 7k was only operable in difficult ground setting, as every other swing results in a false signal using Normal ground setting.  Locate patch did not kill the false signals in the least, although at another patch with groaning ground,  the noise  was smoothed out nicely.

I had/am having the exact same experience in Rye Patch, several areas around here are workable but the update didn't fix the groan I was having in the Rye Patch proper area at times....

There's an area around here (not on Rye Patch/Mujuba Placers proper) that I pulled gold from but had heavy hot rock issues in, I'm going back there tomorrow so will try out how it does on hot rocks in that area.... I have a collection of them piled up sprinkled across the valley floor.. hahaha

Oh well.... still swinging in peace and serenity my trusty 5000.

Jen

[Norvic]

On the threshold at 29, I`ve found same even before this update for me tis important to keep that vol at 8 or lower, stops all that "internal machine" noise coming through and allows that stable threshold. JP on a few occasions has posted this, seems better to use an external booster rather than upping vol if you can`t get a stable threshold. But as always is a individual user thing I suspect.