Steve Herschbach

I’ve never heard of metal detectors and pacemakers having any kind of issues. People walk through airport metal detectors every day with pacemakers. https://www.pti-world.com/are-metal-detectors-a-health-risk/

Great finds, and just wanted to say I really like the photo setup with the rings and chains. Hopefully 2021 is even better!

It is worrisome to me that they can't get hand built under a microscope units right after all these years. We have been told the electronics are "finished" but that appears to be premature thinking.

Isolated aluminum targets like a rolled up beavertail up average to the dime range in my ground with most any single frequency detector. Equinox does not nor did CTX. Adding a multifrequency unit to your test mix might be interesting.

Any bets on price? The GPX 5000 currently sells for US$3999 and since they are calling this the GPX 6000 the next number up might be $4999 Yet Minelab has a long history of pricing the GPX units to match the model number, and if that holds true then maybe $5999? The grudge match of 2021 might be the GPX 6000 at $4999 plus versus the Fisher Impulse Gold at I am guessing under $3000. I'd bet on the Minelab having the performance edge, but this is the first time Minelab might be facing serious competition on both price and performance. On the other hand Minelab got super aggressive with Equinox pricing. If they are serious about wanting to continue the pain at the competition, they could introduce the GPX 6000 at $3999 and drop the GPX 5000 to $2999, in effect replacing the to be discontinued GPX 4500. That would be a one-two type knockout blow against anyone looking to compete against Minelab in this arena. Pure speculation on my part. I have consistently underestimated what people will pay for the Minelab name. I never in a million years thought people would shell out over $10K when the GPZ first came out, but you had to wait in line to get one. Equinox was therefore a shocker when it came in at half what I thought it should sell for.

Your body conducts electricity and as a conductive item your body can cause a detector to signal. The most sensitive detectors will pick up your empty hand waved under the coil. The detector you linked to appears to be a no name clone however, and it is impossible for me to say what is normal or not for a detector like that. But for now I'd say it sounds normal.

What an interesting test! I don’t recall seeing something exactly like this, where what you are testing is the amount of target id skewing that might occur. It’s always devastating to see this illustrated, as it shows that for other than clean targets, the id numbers can be all over the map. Which in turn means that short of digging everything, you are going to leave good stuff behind using any discrimination at all. The AT Pro did quite well. 👍🏻

Welcome to the forum... I think you set a record for longest first post. Great story, and best wishes to you and your family!

Incredible two part find - congratulations! And good on you to be looking for the owner.

I guess I should have waited to get mine, but great for everyone going forward. The old cap should be eliminated on all versions.

I don’t understand Polish and no captioning.... anyone know anything about the battery door in this video? One thing I’d like to see on the MDT is a more robust battery door, which currently has a short run of fine threads, barely enough to get a few turns. This alternative seen in the video is more like it - coarse metal threads and more of them, and a double o ring seal. Is this an aftermarket mod, or a recent change of design?

I did not choose anything. I simply apply updates when they become available, and in this case the default was probably for BBCode to go away, but I am fine with that. Staying with obsolete stuff like BBCode may be easier for a few, but it will lead to increasing problems as time goes by. A forum owner has two choices. Lock in the software and fall back in time, ending up like some forums now that have serious issues. Or move forward with the times. "BBCode is a legacy markup language that was originally designed to allow users to submit rich content prior to the advancement of WYSIWYG editors. BBCode support is deprecated and may be removed in a future release, and we recommend leaving this option disabled for greater performance and reliability if your community does not rely on BBCode parsing to format posts." It is true now that I looked into it that the editor button options changed from where I had them, and it appears some people have access to the old version, and some the newer version. I just jiggered the toolbars. There are three sizes I can set. The toolbar options are limited by space, and so there are small, medium, and large versions. Here are the current versions just set. I try to use the most common buttons, and things like superscripts are not used often enough for dedicated buttons on the smaller versions. The catch all is the source code buttons. The <> button opens a dialog that lets you add code snippets. The <>Source button puts the editor in full html mode. Modify the code, then press the button again to toggle back to view mode. The <>Source button was custom, and got lost on the last update. I added it back to a couple versions. Hopefully this helps. People still may have different versions until in caches until they clear.