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You can cheat with an auto tracking machine if you want to up the GB a bit by ground balancing but only lowering you Coil down to 4 or 5 inches off the ground or even higher and you can make it go the other way by only raising it by about 3 inches from the ground and by letting the coil linger on the ground, So you can off set the GB to suit although you have little control by how much,

I know with one pump of the coil it will be slightly negative and at two pumps it will be slightly positive and by the third pump it will be more so making a bit more noise as you lower the coil, but as a rule it always ground balances with 2 pumps of the coil or if I have had the tracking locked If I press and release the ground grab it update to the current GB setting that the detector see's without have to pump the coil and it only takes about half a second or less for it to GB it's self,

Manual GB is handy for those who like to tweak things but if you only have Auto track and Lock you can imitate it to a fair degree. 

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Yep he is a fast learner and he has all the right gear so success is just around the corner.

the recent influx of LF machines has opened a lot of peoples eyes that were once blinkered by PI machines, finally people are taking note, they seem to forget that the biggest nugget ever found with a detector was found with a VLF in the GT in a time before PI's were invented, Since then Recovery speed has got better so has Disc and ground balance systems work in all but the most extreme conditions, Not to mention that even big Coils are a lot hotter than the little ones we use to use back in the 80's. My largest coils can see bits down to 0.02 on the surface.

Even though I prefer VLF's I like searching hot ground because I can get the detector running right on the edge and a few things happen that either people don't know or they just ignore but in shallow ground and junk sites these LF machines really come in to their own.

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2 hours ago, kiwijw said:

Simon is a good student. Takes advice on board. He will get there.

From what I've read he's damn near there already.

 

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Yep for sure, I wonder how many ounces have been found since by ordinary prospectors, and since then detectors have been used for everything from finding nuggets to clearing mines along with many other uses, Who would of thought a simple hobby would be so far reaching.

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A very interesting thread that I had earlier somehow missed.  Lots of good information and comments.

Given the pricing of PI vs VLF machines and the ability of VLF machines to find small gold the PI detectors miss, VLF machines will probably remain in the game.  Of course, some hardcore professional gold hunters, who have access to places with big, deep nuggets and do it as a living, may find that they do better time-wise using only PI detectors; but, that's really a different game.


It will be interesting to see whether the dedicated VLF gold detectors can compete against the Equinox, which is shaping up to be the ultimate "cross over" machine.  The dedicated machines were designed for gold hunting and offer features geared to gold hunting. But, if the Equinox's mix of frequencies proves able to do the work of two gold machines--finding the smallest gold like a 40khz+ detector but also finding deeper larger gold like a 19khz machine--that may not be enough.

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