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Are they still using DHL? It's super quick shipping.

The 1000 was reacting to the soil quiet badly in that video, I'm not sure how comfortable it would be to use in those high settings in that soil, yes it hits harder in those high manual settings but if he switches to benign on the 2000 which also reacts badly to the ground it hits just as hard, I think. The difficult and normal modes are much weaker than benign when it comes to depth and target signal strength for me HOWEVER they are much more pleasant to use in tougher ground. It's the same with everything when it comes to metal detecting, there is always a trade-off, with him running his GM 1000 in manual high sensitivity is really pushing it for that soil I think, in Auto 2 it didn't seem to react to the ground as much but still hit on the targets better than the GM2000 in normal and difficult by the look of it. As I've said before in mild soil there is no need for someone to buy a 2000, those in difficult soil seem to be the ones that benefit with the nicer running machine although it makes you wonder at what point just running the GM1000 tamed down a bit would be more stable and possibly still do well as it wasn't uncommon for Aussies to dislike the noisy 1000, most people over-drive machines running them too hot hoping for the best results. This guy's soil seemed too hot to be running in the high manual settings on the 1000 even though it hit the targets better, he would probably be better off using these high settings to verify weak signals he finds in lower sensitivity and keep his sanity much like hotter soil people with the 2000 switching to benign or even normal to check targets. I think if I was in hotter soils I'd prefer the 2000 over the 1000, even in my mild soils I'd rather use the 2000 than 1000.

Ok thanks, I'll let him know and he'll contact you if he wants to buy it. Not uncommon for old Coiltek's to not work in ultra fine, they can't be even slightly out of spec for ultra fine to work.

It's funny you should say that, I've been buying mass storage lately and was thinking about the price per TB working out the best value options which for me ended up being the 16TB drives and thinking about back in the old days when Windows 95 came on the market and the OSR 2.1 version came on 26 floppy disks 🙂 Then I saw this... To get 32TB of storage in 1995 you had to pay $66 million, now it cost me a few hundred. Cost of 32 tb decades before 2015 - $2500 2005 - $51,000 1995 - $66 million 1985 - $1 billion Most technology comes down in price over the years, especially household items like TV's, remember the prices of Plasma when they came out, you could buy a car for the price of a TV. Oddly, metal detectors are like that, you can buy a car for the price of a Gold Detector, and often new models cost more than previous ones, a top detector years ago is significantly cheaper than a top detector now, detectors sure buck the trend when it comes to electronics, a small market with significant development costs, minimal competition and limited buyers unlike most electronics.

Use what works best for you is my motto, not what other people think you should use 🙂 I like how the 19kHz Fishers are so immune to EMI and hold their Target ID to right near the edge of detection with a nice stable ID.

It would certainly be easier to catch a trout than to find a bit of gold.

I've been thinking of doing just that as I waste so much time in a day recovering pellets, with the off chance one of them is a bit of gold, I was thinking of just taking a bag along and getting the target into a scoop and dealing with it all at home. I can then use the energy I've got to find targets rather than to recover them. Well done on doing it and having success too.

Does it calibrate in ultra fine? I know of a guy that may want it. He's after a large, long skinny width light coil for black sand beach hunting.

I don't think so, Gerry seems to have had a bad initial run, but I haven't seen many complaints at all, thus far it seems like the Manticore with very few issues and a nice solid reliable build. I use mine with confidence it's not going to break down on me which is a nice feeling after my 6000.

Once again avoided with marketing.

This guy does some creek detecting with his GM2000, it's mostly a marketing video but he does find some little bits in crevices that turn into a fair bit more smaller gold pieces when he pans out the crevices. This is typical NZ creek detecting, it looks like he's on the West Coast of the South Island. Doing this is how I dropped my GM1000 into the water, and drowned it, it died but I was able to dry it out by pulling it apart and cleaning it with alcohol and get it working again. The rocks can get very slippery with moss which coincidently has proven to be a great gold trap and plenty of little bits can be found in the moss. At about the 8.40 mark he's yapping with some nice looking moss in the background, when the creeks in flood gold gets can get caught in it.

Rather than marketing using gold clearly not found with the GM2000 why not declare how many faulty units you've had come through the store if any, seeing you're a dealer after all, and that's what the thread is about. Good on Gerry and Ron for their honestly and declaring if they have had faulty units, I find it a rare attribute with salespeople, especially the used car variety, had bad luck with them over the years. 🙂

Lunks naming evolution demonstrates he makes the best of the technology available to him at the time in the ground he's detecting, finding what's left each detector is capable of hitting. Not sure what the new name will be in the future, maybe Mop, as he Mops up the last gold available to detecting technology as the electronic gold rush completely ends without bringing in the heavy mining equipment.

AI doesn't know what's right or wrong, it's scraping the internet for information much like a search engine, then publishes its results as if they're fact. It's in its infancy and has a long way to go before it's suitable for the intended purpose of this thread query. Where it's good is where it can be trained for a task, and used for that task, not something as generic as answering millions of peoples queries a day and getting them correct like an encyclopedia. For that, it's data source would need to be accurate, not any random source of information on the internet that is riddled with false or even just incorrect information from someone learning the topic themselves. The biggest problem with the internet and has been since its inception is you can have an opinion on something, no matter how wrong it is and find people just like you that congregate somewhere and express that opinion as fact. AI find's that of course and doesn't know if it's right or wrong. Detector forums users can be like that too in a way, a member of a group or forum may have only used a handful of detectors yet they're firm that what they own is the best, happens with coils too all the time. To genuinely know something is the best you have to at least used the alternatives for a period of time to properly compare. Some are so brand focused they only own one brand; they can't genuinely say their detectors are the best at everything like they do yet AI can scape this information and repeat it, easy for detector stuff too as it's a bit niche so results are limited for a source of information. Much of the information on detectors is speculation and opinions based on limited information and when you have to factor in variables like ground types affecting performance with detectors it means AI is going to struggle to give accurate results. Asking experienced people questions is best, not a glorified search engine.

It's worth checking your battery connections, especially if you have the older battery model as they had bad connection problems, if the new lthium version not so much a problem but it's likely you either have a faulty coil or faulty detector. Probably best to get it checked by Minelab.