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More ferrite related comments here.

JP's post in the bottom of the first page in this thread is helpful.

Hi Dave. Obviously JP is the best bloke to tell you in his own words but what I have gleaned off him over the past 18 months is... The GPZ in AUTO should be ground balanced to the local ground and also to the supplied ferrite ring. In AUTO , as you use the GPZ, it will slowly become set to the local ferrite and will need to be re-ferrite balanced often during a detecting session. The GPZ works best when ferrite balanced to the ferrite ring rather than the ground ferrite. Now that SEMI AUTO is available JP has suggested that SEMI AUTO is the better option as it locks the ferrite and it will take much longer for the detector to slowly work its way from an optimum ferrite ring balance whilst continuing to automatically ground balance to the local ground conditions. Please correct things if I'm wrong JP. Dave, it's worth going back through all of JPs posts about the Z and cutting/pasting them into your own little extra special manual. It doesn't take too long and you can shift things into sections like noise cancel, ground balance, gold modes, etc, etc.. This is what I've done and it gets referred to every few months just as a reminder. There's a lot in my manual that isn't in the Minelab manual Cheers.

There's a lot of fancy words in there Dave, makes my head hurt ? How technology works is amazing. The people who think this stuff up are even more amazinger!! Bruce must be a fair dinkum, you beaut, ridgy didge genious. 2 thumbs up for you Bruce ??

I wondered if you had arrived in Oz - something seemed a little different ? 40 shirts and 4 pairs of boots ? They been teaching you some strange ways in North Queensland!! Seriously though, welcome to Oz, enjoy your stay, hope it's fruitful and great to see that all of your gear is here ?

Enjoy reading your thoughts Reg. It makes my brain whirr a little faster ? Jin - am I right in thinking your tally was up around the 27 gms for the 2 days detecting? Nice work if I'm adding correctly. Good to hear you are 'back' into the detecting ?

Nice write up Lanny. Nice spot by the sounds. And a very nice gesture to get the newbie on the right track. Although you may have done a terrible thing - I'd say the poor bloke is addicted now Does the write up belong to the pics on the previous page?

Welcome to the forum Which country are you in Donnie? Probably makes a bit of difference to what to get. And I think your tests were air tests? Put your 0.05 piece of lead 50mm under mineralized ground, hey presto, it may disappear The SDCs are great. The Gold Monster is also great for even smaller gold. But the SDC wins for dealing with mineralized ground. And Reg's comment is probably not too far off the mark either

Clay and ironstone sounds ok. Granite not so much but maybe. Any quartz? Although if there are mullock heaps there must have been gold so forget the particulars of what rocks are there and just go beep on them . You'll never never know if you never never go. Welcome to the forum and we'd love to see pictures if you find some yellow stuff!!

Very impressive Lunk, very impressive indeed

Great question Jin. And nice to see you drop by, haven't seen you here for a bit. Maybe you've been lurking And you too JR and geof - haven't seen any other posts for awhile. Interested to hear others answers too. Keep 'em coming.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?id=25517 Used one here. Mentions about posting in Australia. Doesn't say he won't post internationally. Would still have a years worth of warranty I think. I have never even seen a GPX but I've seen Reg's QED. Very light and from what I read it is fairly competitive against the GPXs. If you are sending it back to Oz for updates it is only the control unit so not expensive to post. The low price point for a brand new QED almost had me convinced to sell the Z and have 6k left over. But knowing that money would then just be spent on carpet for our house I quickly slapped myself Each to their own but if I was just entering the PI market I'd seriously look at the QED.

Hey Steve, About half way through listening - good show so far but I'm still waiting for the bit about prospecting for gold nuggets You two do get gabbing a bit about detectors. I nearly ran off the road when I heard one particular tid-bit though...the GPZ 7000 HAS the capability to have discrimination built into it at some stage in the future. Are you able to/happy to expand on this? I thought that the prospecting community always just HOPED that this might be a possibility. From what I heard you might know that it should definitely be a possibility in the future? Are we just waiting for tech to catch up? I also understand if it is something you aren't allowed to expand on. Another hour in the car tomorrow will see the last part listened to

In which country are you wanderer? Yes, you can get used PI machines. Just make sure they are not fakes. Always best to try and get one with some warranty left too. Getting a used one though a dealer may also give you some peace of mind that they have checked it over and it is in good working order even if it is out of warranty. If you are in Australia the QED is getting some good reviews and is a very light and relatively inexpensive PI machine. I'm not sure if the QED is available overseas at present or if it ever will be due to the small size of the business. Im sure others on here will be able to help you more re: prices across the many brands. And, of course, check out Steve's Gold Detecting reviews - I doubt there is a more comprehensive review page with pricing included. http://www.detectorprospector.com/gold-prospecting-guides/steve-guide-gold-nugget-detectors.htm

Stephen, there is only 1 model of GPZ 7000 so yes, they can all be updated to the latest software available. The latest update has issues with the storage/transfer of GPS marks though, so a few people have opted to use the prior release software until the GPS issue is fixed.

Struth Ruth!! If your detector goes beep beep pretend you’re a Road Runner

Look forward to it Steve. The previous podcast kept me entertained driving to and from work a few weeks ago. And then I listened to George Kinsey’s as well. Speaker actually has 3 different Metal Detecting shows available on it. I only realized this yesterday. Spending a few hours in the car over the next few days so will be giving them all a bit of a try. Hope your nugget show goes well and they don’t lose your transmission for another 5 minutes

Congrats Ammie. I had just scientifically worked it out as being 205. Apparently a wild stab at it was a better method Nice work RR. PS: You had a newborn at age 47 . That makes me tired just thinking about it

I can see it now that you explain it Fred

Thanks for the response Nenad. I'll probably never own anything from that line up of detectors but interesting to know and hopefully helps somebody who does/is looking to use them. Thanks again.

? What is that towel up the back of your head, Fred?

That's a shame Norm. Certainly sounds like something has gone haywire. Page 12 in the manual - yep, FP is Factory Presets. Out of interest, did you try the Factory Reset more than once? Hope it is back soon either fixed or replaced.

I did mention in a post that I was keen to give Old Noxxy a go at the spot later this week. Noxxy has arrived. Had a play in the back yard last night with it and pulled 4 coins that the GM had missed. 1 cent, 2 cent, 20 cent and a 1941 half penny. Terrible condition. Lemon juice hasn't helped much. But it won't be having a go at the clay bank until maybe late Saturday arvo, if at all this weekend. The family have made other plans for me Friday and Saturday and then work on Sunday

That's about $80 an hour in Australia. I'd be happy to work for that Sorry to hear about your uncle

Hi JW. Not Equinox gold unfortunately...or fortunately - I'm not sure :-) These were with the GM 1000. Old Noxxy has arrived today and is on the charge. Have you ever heard that old saying "A watched Nox never charges". Apparently checking the blinking green light every 4 minutes doesn't make it go quicker