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  1. I talked to friend today today who tried the 15 inch on his Nox. He used it for a few months but said it was to noisy here in the bay. It did provide the coverage but he had to make so many adjustments that there was no depth advantage. After he told me that I remembered the same when I tried a few larger coils on the Excalibur. The WOT, and the Detech ULT13.. the 13 was so hot, once it was in 3 foot of water I could not even adjust the sensitivity down enough to stop the noise. Even more interesting is the "AQ's big 12.6 inch coil. It can be noisy but with coil control (And setting adjusting) it is manageable. I just got a 10 inch special made coil for it and I swear that baby is silent. I'm taking the AQ out tomorrow with the 10 in rough waters. See how all goes.
    5 points
  2. As far as actual genuine additions in the form of real additional performance I expect little. GPZ was a genuine breakthrough, as was Equinox, but next generations are likely to be fine tuning of the original breakthrough. Back to what has been disparaged as drip feed, but reality is genuine advances in metal detecting only come once a decade. So I basically expect more of the same, plus other companies piling on with their versions of SMF and PI, all of which will add up to more of the same. More choices in style, feature mix, and price. But more capability that actually makes a real difference in what I can find in any given day? I’m not holding my breath at all. The good news is I’m very content with what I have now, light years beyond what I started with almost 50 years ago. I’ve personally experienced going from detectors with no ground balance, no discrimination, and no depth to speak of, to the fantastic options we have now. I’m way more focused now on finding better ground than a better detector. That’s the ticket to success, not whatever new flavor of vanilla somebody is brewing to part me from my dollars.
    5 points
  3. Some thing that really woke me up to how hard it was to dig 18 inches was when I dug the holes for the PVC pipe when testing the "AQ" The PVC pipe was 20 inches long..... Honestly, After digging those test holes I don't think I've dug many that deep. If any, when hunting.
    4 points
  4. Got my coil back today (25th) after sending it out last Saturday (16th). I asked for some new washers, and they sent them along with a new bolt and skid plate. The skid plate is not as tight as my original, but it makes it easier to remove! The service was excellent and communication impeccable. It cost me $13.55 for shipping to the facility via priority USPS.
    4 points
  5. It might be OK with the 6000 but would it get off the ground with the 7000 & 19" DOD. 😆
    4 points
  6. I just use the 12V lead off my GPZ battery charger (or you can also use the 12V lead for the SDC Lithium battery) to charge my GPX6000 battery when out bush rather than use the supplied alligator clip 12V charging lead. The other way to do it is to replace the alligator clips with an Anderson plug, most caravan people run an Anderson plug to provide current to the DCtoDC chargers on their rigs. JP
    3 points
  7. Interesting you guys bring up depth. In the water that could be difficult , but done long enough as OBN , you got a pretty good idea. Many moons ago , I actually carried a mini 6' tape measure to check on depth. Then for a few years ( it was posted on the other forum) I put colored tape on my scoop handle. Tilting the point of the scoop on the ground , then measure 12" with a tape vertically , then again at 24". I am confident on eyeballing measurements. But this was more accurate. The problem is , depending on the width of the hole and if you can get your coil to the bottom , is were it can get a bit tricky. I'm sure there are times where the ring was deep and in the side of the hole. And that scoop brought it down. But I know other times I've had that scoop at the bottom 18" and still reading the target solid underneath it. 1 more scoop gets it. Now , It doesn't really matter unless I got a new detector. Then I would just like to know.
    3 points
  8. Some of you blokes might need to lay off the tinnies while you wait for delivery.
    3 points
  9. Early wet Weather in Northern Nevada, sure messed up a few of my hunts! But, this last Hunt was called Rain or Shine! Be there or miss out with the original hunting party. We had half the amount of coils on the ground during this hunt and managed to find a few sweet spots of dinks to add to our pokes. Rain on us with snow in the ground 200’ above us all 4-Days! 6000, Retune Button got a workout. I kept the 11” Mono on. Tried the DD for a few hours with no luck, don’t know if the ground and line I took was bad, but the guys behind me where finding nuggets…so back to the 11”. My truck is out in the drive way in the wet Weather still loaded up with me gear! Getting wet again to unload it, I can’t wait 🤨 Until the next Hunt! LuckyLundy
    3 points
  10. The obvious cheap alternative to using the 18 volt '7000' charger is to repurpose a redundant laptop power supply. They ARE regulated, have plenty of current capacity, and you may have one lying unused; they can be obtained free from family/colleagues, cheap from flea markets/car boot sales etc. They are typically 14V to 18V, use the dropper diode circuit to get them down to 12V or so.
    2 points
  11. I use various cigarette style chargers while in the road, but our cars, or at least the one I have now, do not have “live” 12V accessory plugs unless the car is running, or key in accessory position. My last rig I hardwired in my own always on receptacle. I’m a bit paranoid about it, as I did use the accessory key once, but other things in the vehicle come on, boosting the draw, and I accidentally ran a battery dead. In a bad place, and only got lucky finding a person who could give me a jump. I got an emergency jump kit for that reason. But current car if I want up charge overnight, I’d need to add that always on receptacle, so until then, it’s clip to the battery. Or use a separate charging option. Whatever, lots of ways to go, sure not anything new for me. The worst actually for me was the SDC 2300 and finding a 12V C cell charger that would charge four cells at once - an uncommon item. Even if the battery ran 16 hours I’d have another. It’s not running time for me, but that I refuse to not have a backup, just in case.
    2 points
  12. I know it was all about weight with the 6000 and if it had a heavier longer lasting battery it would be edging even closer to the GPX 5000 weight so at release they wanted it to be as light as possible, however do you think it would be possible over time that they would just release a long life battery for it as an optional extra, obviously it will be heavier but the marketing side of the weight advantage would have done it's work by then anyway and the many users will have told their friends how light it feels so having accessories that add weight wouldn't matter as much as the advantages they bring. My detecting days are usually 8 to 10 hours, normally longer in summer when the days are far longer and I would be a speaker user if I had one that worked so I'm at that point where 1 battery is not enough but a slightly bigger battery would be.
    2 points
  13. If it's priced around $1,000, that would be pretty sweet (although I expect it to be closer to $1,500). That's still too high for me, but it's close enough to the Equinox 800 to impose some serious competition...assuming it performs well, of course. But based on what people say about the Deus, I expect the Deus II to be competitive with other SMF machines.
    2 points
  14. Choices: 1. Wake up and change battery on supplied main charger 2. Use supplied 12 v battery jumpers to charge spare at your leisure. Strick
    2 points
  15. NE, Ive only tried a friends 6000 for a trial and I'm slowly putting gold aside to pay for one.....but bills keep getting in the way 😞 I dont have any ML wireless headphones to try but Ive used all the same brand types from the transmitter brands Ive tried. So far, none have been fast enuff for my liking. If it aint as quick as a set of corded headphones, I wont bother. Gold wise, yeah Im doing OK I spose....nuthin like the good old days though lol. Im sitting at 5.6oz for the year so far....477 bits, 8.5 grammer is the biggest.
    2 points
  16. I grew in the the snow country but the Army brought me to AZ where I got spoiled. I will never leave, I love the heat.
    2 points
  17. What would FMF mean? Full multi frequency? Certainly an XP Deus II though. I enhanced the image a bit to make it more readable. You can also see the two charging points on the coil below the red light.
    2 points
  18. Well it will have to wait another day to unload 😂
    2 points
  19. Thank you! I sold all in late 2012 when I was sick. I do regret selling then. The last 7 years I've saved most, I have them locked away in a bank in another state. Occasionally, I will have a friend pull them out for me and I'll add to, get a few pictures (or video) then put them back. Someday my grandsons will hopefully be the beneficiaries, if I taught my daugther correctly on how to get the most out of them. I'm very Blessed that I don't need to melt them, but I do send my silver in for melt and do good with that.. A side note, If I hunted the land only my ring count would be about 1 a year, if that.
    2 points
  20. Something similar has already been done. The White's VX3 had the exact same hardware as the V3i but the features (all software) were considerably stripped back. However, all those features are still in there and can be progressively enabled with the right passwords. I think there were 4 levels: the VX3, 2 levels in-between, and the V3i. The thinking was that when a customer got good with the VX3 he could then "buy up" to the next level for, say, $99. It would have had the benefit for White's that a new customer would be less likely to overbuy and get frustrated with the V3i, and for the customer that they could buy only as much as they wanted. The "upgrade" was never implemented, mgmt didn't like the idea. Please don't ask me how to do it; it required running the unit's serial number through a passcode generator that only White's had, and I'm certain that even that has been lost.
    2 points
  21. Not seen such a thing, but not saying it's not been done. But most reports on the NF12 say it's about the same as the stock GPZ coil, just lighter. So you could leap from there to GPZ stock coil to 6000 comparisons, which are GPZ deeper on bigger stuff, 6000 hotter on smaller stuff.
    2 points
  22. A friend took me out on his boat Friday in search of Gold and Silver at a spot that is very hard to get too. Fours hours and all I had was several silvers but I could smell the gold.. It was close...just never found it.... Saturday I forced myself to get out of bed and go in search of that yellow stuff again (alone this time). Different beach...Water was calm.. and the tides were not the best but being what they were it forced me to hunt in the right spot. Not a lot of targets but got into a little area I could feel it again, then about 16 inches down, out came a 12 gram 10k gold. Hunted for a while longer, then as I was walking in, "out of the blue" I got another signal. Out came a 5.8 gram X10k. Old stamp.. Final total (both hunts) 7 hours,... 2 10k golds, 13 Silvers. I've had a very "Blessed" week, 5 gold rings total (30.58 grams of gold) , 24 Silver coins..in 4 hunts, about 16 hours. Three different beaches. Winds and Tides are off this week, then that crazy day light savings time is coming.😒 Both John and I had a good time, and interesting, I had a chance to see how well the Nox 800 with stock coil did against my 10 inch coil Stealth Excalibur. In short, I have nothing to worry about from the Nox's. No doubt the best machine to have on fresh drop beaches, but when the targets are very deep, I'm not even sure the 15 inch coil on the Nox would help. Wish I could get back to the one spot, the AQ would kill that place I believe, Here...when you digging a lot of silver.. the gold is right there with it. It was just to deep for the Excalibur at the first spot. Good Luck to everyone out there and Be Safe!
    1 point
  23. I want one!!! A little pricy, but this would go pretty good with the 6000!!!
    1 point
  24. Went back to the farmhouse today, Chase wanted some detector time so I invited him down. It was a cold morning, 50s and windy but good for the hard work ahead. Chase got there shortly after I did, my first find was a 1990 nickel, and it really didn't get much better. I had to dump my trash bag 4 times, lots of plumbing parts, matchbox car parts again, molten metal and just about everything that gives a false good VDI and tone. Bullet shells, you name it. 😀 The place is getting sort of lean. Here's what I got, some of it is interesting: The usual clad and memorials, nothing older than 1972. Remains of some kind of brooch with rhinestones, it was pretty mangled but still had 3 stones. A 3 ring bullet flattened, some sort of knob that has a coin edge. The most interesting finds aside from the bullet were the aluminum penny token which is about the size of a quarter, and the small brass "E. Faber" fountain pen tip case which contains a small pencil. The token is corroded and broken so that the date doesn't show, just the bottom of the memorial and "One Cent" on the back. It was a fun day, always good to have Chase along. He found some stuff too.
    1 point
  25. it is about direction and who is taking that direction. better to venture than rest. the 1st car manufacturer does not still make the best car. other's risk the venture and that is what i apperciate. XP is going in that direction, armchair quaterbacking is easy and not always helpful
    1 point
  26. I have one, I bought a guitar from a dealer at a guitar show. About a year later I got a call from some irate guy who demanded I give it back to him, or he'd send the police. He was very nasty, also threatened to sue. I calmly told him I still had the receipt, and he could go for it if he wanted to but the state I bought it and lived in has a law that says anything bought in good faith with a good faith transaction (how was I to know the dealer may have been disreputable?) must be purchased back from the person holding a receipt, stolen or not. Stolen property is a whole 'nother ball game for sure. In any case, no matter where you are, KNOW THE LAW. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
    1 point
  27. That was me, there is something else on the coil that catches the red pulse, guess we will have to wait and see.
    1 point
  28. Good question, but the answer is "I haven't". Not in a testing, scientific type of way at least. All I know is that if there is a lag, it isn't enough to be bothering me. Which isn't saying much though as this sort of thing isn't usually something that worries me too much. However, I do know I tried some bone conduction ear phones which were not Low Latency on the Equinox and that did give me the shits! The bone conduction part was actually fine, the lag was terrible. I'm heading out tomorrow and will take both, space out some coins and lead and stuff and have a little play. I started this thread so I guess I had better give some proper, decently tested feedback 👍 Nice, you're doing well. I've been getting a few nice pieces too but last Friday/Saturday pulled up a skunk. Friday was my first ever at Wedderburn and caught up with a mate staying at the caravan park. We tried a spot where he had found a few bits before. Nothing but lead shot and .22 bullets for both of us. Did a bit of scouting around in the arvo and had a look at where the potato diggings were, etc. Planned on camping out Friday night but a slight, Tier 1 Covid site, stayed with possible contagious people type incident sort of derailed the rest of the day. Once the C-19 issues were sorted during Saturday morn I just had a scout around the Whipstick looking for a new patch and finishing for 2 hours on an old patch. But nothing. Used the 17" coil exclusively both days. Great coverage, nice and quiet but that coil does nothing to eliminate picking up bl@@dy lead shot unfortunately. Rather than a stupid question, I guess this is sort of a statement - you've tried the Minelab supplied headphones. Still a noticeable lag for you? Will any of the other headphones or receivers you bought hook straight up to the in-built GPX6 Low Latency signal rather than using a transmitter?
    1 point
  29. Apparently, they plan to make their first deliveries in 2022. But I hear ya on the potential for vaporware...
    1 point
  30. Hi all. I must ask if anyone has been using the supplied 6000 headphones and checked if noticeable time delay is present, and then try it plugged into the machine and the delay disappears? Would need someone to check a target in the field both ways before digging, cheers sturt
    1 point
  31. At $92,000 USD, I don't think they will be selling a lot of them. It would make a great prospecting vehicle for any kind of prospecting or exploration.
    1 point
  32. I wonder what they plan to price this machine at? Hopefully not a couple grand. I can possibly see it pushing $1500 to put it above the Deus. But it could also replace the Deus. And it will most likely be priced above the ORX. Then you also have to consider the competition, mainly Minelab! The Equinox is submersible, the Deus 2 likely will not be submersible but may be weatherproof. So maybe it will be priced closer to the 800. I'd be happy to see a price around $1000
    1 point
  33. yes sir a real whopper for that region .
    1 point
  34. Well done Rick swinging in adverse weather is always a chore .
    1 point
  35. Air Force does like their Controlled Climate and I never argued 😂. First time I ever lived in Snow Country and I enjoy it so far. Grew up in Florida and Arizona. I’ll be back home in Arizona next month to hit a few of my old spots if I can remember where they are at! Rick
    1 point
  36. Airforce made you soft. 😄 The Arizona heat made me dislike that white stuff. LOL
    1 point
  37. Thanks. It was a bit of a disappointment, only one silver coin found here so far. Tons of clad, almost 100 coins here. There is so much junk in the ground you really have a challenge. In a way we are cleaning it up for future visits, but nothing jumps out at you as much as the debris does.
    1 point
  38. Another great hunt. My Nox I was able to get a good 16-18" in the wet , not in the water. My DF went deeper. Nice old ring. A few years ago I got the same script ring dated 1886 , my oldest. It was unique in that the ring had a reeded edge. Like that of a $5 gold , but it was worn down. Wish I still had it our took a pic. It was also around 22k.
    1 point
  39. I know the Nox was running beach 2 with a threshold.. Does that sound right? And remember my Excalibur's are not stock, many modifications.. and I hunt in PP/All metal. I've taken CZ20/21, and other Excalibur hunters and they can't hear the targets either.... I've hunted along side Nox's before but this is the first time that I went thru and picked out faints for them to check and dig. And for the record I did have one guy that had a HOT CZ21, that thing could hear all I heard and even deeper then my Excalibur.. He was getting a 6 gram gold ring at 16-18 inches.. My excal was getting it at 14..and this was on the Jersey shores several years ago...I have done several upgrades to the Excalibur since but that CZ21 was as deep as the "AQ" is.. So what I did, I would find deep faints targets for John in PP using my Excalibur. Most I would have to remove two scoops..about 10 inches? For him to find the targets. He did hear them then but they gave a iron signal ......after a scoop or two he would get a discriminated silver tone .......John is a excellent land hunter, and hunts the water but mostly fresh drop beaches.
    1 point
  40. Nice Indian, great find! You are getting great results with the ORX
    1 point
  41. Look for BiPolar Pulse Induction (ZVT) units with changes to coil voltage/amperage and frequency/timing shift tech (similar to how the 6000 samples on-the-fly) to be the new benchmark in gold detector technology....from Minelab of course. I can see an opening for a 2300-beating small gold specialty detector using the above tech with fast sampling and CC coils, plus a big gold-big depth version with a wide-lobed DOD coil with slow-er sampling. Or maybe a killer 'one unit fits all' adjustable machine to get it all? But thats gonna be a $10K+ detector for sure, knowing ML's expenditure on R&D to get new tech on the board.... Don't quote it as gospel of course....I can just see the logic in this, now that ML have 'let the cat out of the bag' with the 6000. Seems logical to have a hybrid detector using both 7000 and 6000 tech.
    1 point
  42. It is amazing to see what you are able to find in a single hunt. I hunt 99% of the time in the turf, and my gold total for 3 years is what you find in a week. Right place and lots of hard work on your part.👍 Do you hang onto your rings, or do you sell them for scrap once you get a certain amount? If you don't sell them, do you have a pic with all of them in one place? I bought a couple detectors from a guy in Salt Lake City years back. While at his house, he took me to his detecting finds part of the basement. He had a substantial bunch of gold rings he had found all hanging on a large carabiner that astonished me, as I had never found anything gold up to that point. It was an inspiration to see. I emulate him a bit. I just use a much smaller carabiner so it looks like it is loaded with gold rings.😁
    1 point
  43. One of my other Buddies is heading home soak & wet! Here’s is Poke
    1 point
  44. These are available gold backs or foil notes and fractional Valcombie bars, the gold notes are some type of polymer with actual measured amounts of gold deposited onto them and the silver and gold bars are made to break off smaller individually marked pieces.
    1 point
  45. Then watch piracy kick in at full force, dumps of the software upgrades all over the place people installing for free. They'd need some sort of license key situation that a key can only be used once and on one detector, they could have an algorithm that when you purchase the upgrade it uses the serial number of your machine to generate the upgrade code which then only works on your machine and is checked online. Sure there are always ways to get around all sorts of protection but I just don't see metal detectors as something that anyone serious would bother trying to break the protection, especially if it's very difficult with online verification and serial number matching for machines. It'd be best done like some software where features are unlocked by the license key you enter rather than requiring customers to firmware update machines and just have the license key "activate" to the detector online so it can't be used on another detector. It'd be funny to see key generators for metal detectors 😛 It all sounds good and would be nice and convenient for customers to be able to upgrade at home with a few simple clicks.
    1 point
  46. Hi guy's here is my take on how to best set up your 5000 for any ground. GPX 5000 Setting Explained. Hi guy’s, here is my advice on better understanding and applying settings on the GPX 5000. I believe I know the GPX 5000 very well, I used it to make a good living from its release date until it was replaced by the GPZ 7000. As most of you know I am a professional prospector, to be successful as a prospector you must understand your tools and their capabilities and limitations and know how to apply them for greatest effect or you will quickly go broke. So when I get a new tool or detector I do rigorous testing and comparisons to understand its strong and weak points so that I can apply it to greatest advantage and thus recover more gold and have a better lifestyle as a result. I spend around 8 months 7 days a week 10 to 12 hours a day prospecting with about 90% of this time detecting the other 10% rock chip sampling or stream bed sampling to prove prospective leases. This equates to over 2000 hours per year detecting to give you an idea on how much time someone like me spends swinging their detector. I also travel to different Gold fields all over the country that have wildly different soil and bedrock compositions. Below are the settings explained and my take on how to use them to their full potential, I have a philosophy... “If I am going to own a Ferrari I am going to drive a Ferrari, and drive it hard!”. My settings reflect my philosophy and are not for the feint of heart. Front Panel Search Mode switch: each setting activates a group of Minelab preselected settings for the particular scenario. They are all reprogrammable so it basically gives you 5 modes that you can pre program and have ready at one flick of a switch. I change all of them to suit my needs and just remember what switch they were under so I can quickly select them on the fly without having to go through the whole menu and changing every setting, say when I want to pinpoint or check a questionable target for example, I will select the mode I have my amped up pinpoint settings under. The switch activates the following settings: General, Deep and Custom, Custom also activates Patch, Hi-Mineral, Hi-Trash and Pinpoint. So you basically have 5 groups of settings that you can have preprogramed to suit your needs and quickly select on the fly. Soil/Timings switch: Normal, best general performance and is particularly good for long time-constant targets. But suffers in areas that have long time constant ground signal. This timing is very good in mild mineralisation or areas like stream beds that have lower mineral content than the flats hills or terraces that may be higher mineralisation. Enhance: this timing clips some long time-constant signal and a smaller amount of fast time-constant signal, it is very good in highly mineralised ground or areas with a lot of hot rocks and it also has some clipping of fast time-constant signal that can eliminate false signals in some ground Special: If you choose Special on the Front Panel the following settings will then be selectable on the Rear Panel under special. Sensitive Smooth: only use for very severe soils. Sense smooth clips both the long and fast time-constant signal to eliminate these types of ground signals hot rocks ect. But it will cost you targets that fall within this range. Fine Gold: Fine Gold is similar to Enhance but is much more open on the fast time-constant end of the timing. This makes it way more sensitive to smaller targets whilst it has similar capabilities to Enhance on larger targets. It ignores a lot of hot rocks and ground signal a very powerful tool once understood. Sensitive Extra: this timing is similar to normal but is more open on the fast time constant side and a bit less on the long time-constant side. It is useful in mild ground on smaller targets but increases hot rock signals with mono coils. Its good with Double D coils for smaller targets in mineralised ground too, very useful for crumbing in bedrock with a small coil. Salt/Gold: For very salty areas - salt lakes, high salt content gold fields. Sharp: Is the most powerful timing on the 5000 it has a larger detection field and is more open on the long time-constant side of the timings than normal but this makes it very susceptible to ground signal. I have found it very useful on larger deeper targets in mild ground with a mono coil. But this timing really shined with a large 20in concentric coil that I had made for finding larger targets in mineralised ground and it also worked a treat on the larger DD coils too, one of my favourites was a 14in DD that I even ran in basalt soil in sharp with great success. Coin/Relic: I only used this in Europe for treasure hunting. Coil/Rx: Double D, Mono and Cancel, I have foam stuck between the case and the switch so that it keeps the switch in Double D and the switch cannot accidentally be knocked into Cancel, you can run the switch in DD for both monos or DD coils. And I never want the detector to accidentally be knocked into Cancel as you loose most of your performance and there is no way I want to be walking around for hours or who knows how long wasting time walking around in cancel then having to go back over the area again! Ground Balance: Tracking or Fixed, I always use Fixed, except in highly mineralised variable ground. Threshold: I set this to a faint but clearly audible hum, this was generally at about 3oclock on the knob, I usually re adjust it after changing the other settings below as well, particularly the Target volume setting, which you play against eachother to amplify targets but tame chatter. Auto tune: Always perform an auto tune on detector start up or if EMI increases re-auto tune the detector. Back Panel Volume limit: Set this so that a loud target dose not blow off your ears. Ground Balance type: general, specific and off, I nearly always use general except in the worst Iron rich ground that requires special. Special: Explained above. Manual Tune: I usually just use auto tune but I always make a mental note of what frequency it ends up on. Motion: Very slow, Slow, med and fast. I nearly always use very slow or if it is very quiet ground I might use slow. This is a filter that modulates the audio to suit your swing speed. I use this setting in conjunction with Quiet Audio type to tame Threshold chatter whist maintaining the target response on very small or very deep edge of detection targets, this allows me to run very high gain and stabiliser settings and greatly enhances target response. Rx Gain: Range of 1 – 20 I pretty much leave it at 20 unless I’m running Sharp or Sens Extra timings which may need to be run quite low even below 10. Sometimes I use this setting to tame ground signal in more extreme ground conditions, but I never use it to deal with EMI or Threshold chatter ever! Or it will cost you performance that you don’t need to give up! Audio type: Boost, Normal, Deep and Quiet. These settings modulate how the signal is processed and which part of the signal is more amplified. My favourite is Quiet as it has a linear profile which makes the EMI chatter less amplified and gives a better amplification of the target response when other settings are run high. Basically it trims chatter but strengthens target range signals when your other settings are set to suit. Audio Tone: Set it to suit your hearing. Higher tones for younger people for older people or if your like me with industrial deafness a low tone can be better. My sweet tone is 30, find your tone by getting a small nugget and tape it to a stick at barely audible depth, this is to make a control signal now swing the nugget over the stationary coil and play with the tone setting until you find the tone at which the faint target is loudest or easiest to distinguish, this is the best way to set your tone to find gold! Do not make the mistake of setting your tone to make the Threshold sound nicer like most do! We are after targets not Threshold! Stabiliser: The stabilizer is a filter that is used to tame the high frequency noise or chatter that is usually the product of EMI. I never use this setting to deal with ground noise ever! I just use this setting to smooth the Threshold chatter down until tolerable. Do not use it to deal with ground signal as you have way better setting options for that and you will just loose performance that you don’t have to! Most of the time in the morning this will be set quite high but as the day heats up and EMI increases it will have to be lowered to suit. High for me is 20 and I almost never go below 11. I always adjust this setting after auto tuning and with the detector stationary and facing the the way you are detecting! Signal peak: 1 to 20. I run this at 20 as I want definite targets, lower numbers cause blending and sound mono tone which can cause missed targets. Target Volume: 1 to 20. I run this setting at 20 nearly all of the time this is an amplification filter that amplifies target response, it dose make the Threshold louder at high numbers but you just lower the Threshold until it is at the right level as discussed above. What you are left with when properly played against the Threshold is amplified target response and a good Threshold volume. Response: normal and inverted. I use normal as I never used AI DD coils. Tracking speed: slow, med, Fast. I nearly always used slow and fixed GB but if the ground is highly variable I use tracking and the speed that just keeps up with the ground variations. Iron reject: I leave Iron reject off because the GPX is un reliable at Discrimination. I use a VLF detector if trash density calls for it. Range of Motion Understanding Range of Motion and its effect on how targets are heard or not heard because of it is one of the most important aspects of learning your metal detector. Once learned targets stand out more and you can use it to separate false targets from definite targets by modulating your swing speed, this can’t be learned from reading you must do testing of your range of motion skills and learn every new detectors best range of motion by testing it over known buried targets and known false signals like termite mounds or hot rocks for example until you become proficient. Spend time doing this and it will reap rewards for you.
    1 point
  47. 64 replies and over 6000 views so far.... I'd not worry about the fine details Trevor. Best advertising dollars you'll spend this week! I'll take this opportunity to thank you for dropping by - your posts are always appreciated, and of great interest to forum members. Do make it more of a habit, as we all have extreme interest in anything you are making for any detectors. That 6x10 for Equinox, by the way, truly a superb effort, looks more like Minelab made than aftermarket - well done!
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  48. There is no assuming......the warranty will not be transferable. It is 5 years and applies to the original registered buyer only. With the second coil I might go $275, tops especially if shipping costs are added on. There are so many different versions of the F75 that you have to shop carefully. The discontinued F70 did not have variants and the currently produced Teknetics Patriot which is exactly the same detector are somewhat different from all of the F75s. They weight less by half a pound and at least where I detect, they are more stable. If I really wanted an F70 I would not hesitate to buy a Teknetics Patriot new from Amazon or Teknetics Direct since the 5 year no questions asked warranty is worth the extra $99 in my opinion. I have used that warranty on several FTP detectors in the past.
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