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  1. When swinging, I find my hand feels more natural when it's resting on the bottom of the handle. That gives me about an inch and a bit of clearance to the bottom of the control box. I'll probably still put a thin layer of tennis racquet grip tape as I did the same with the 7000 and 2300. Probably got so used to the foam grips from the SD days right up to the 5000. 

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  2. Here's a few things on my Minelab dream list:

    A 6000 with a lot more control - independent threshold, tone control, front end gain adjust, more timings etc. 

    A 7000 that's gone on a diet - don't need the GPS, and a nice mid size semi-elliptical concentric would be great. 

    A gpx5000 Pro version - full carbon shafts, SD series khaki green box, a small internal battery to give me 6 hrs run time, but still able to hook up the external battery pack. External manual tune pot like the 3500. No coil supplied. And a little bit of SDC/6000 timing magic for an improvement on specimens. Actually, if they did this, I probably wouldn't need the first two ☺️ Heck they can even stuff my sP01 circuit inside if we're really dreaming. 

    A Sovereign type machine that's fully waterproof, i.e. a Garrett infinium style control box that I can chest mount. Aqua Sovereign or Excalibur III? 

    None of the above is using new technology, so quite achievable, and would sure get me wanting to upgrade.  

     

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  3. On 3/13/2024 at 5:31 AM, phrunt said:

    Steelphase no longer makes them, Nenad took over making and selling them.  

    SteelPhase was Pat & myself, now it's just me.....and my local engineer, printers, laser engravers etc who help get all the parts ready 😉

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  4. Rob still sells them. 

    Direct link to SteelPhase brand: https://phasetechnical.com.au/steelphase/

    Many still prefer the plug and play simplicity of hardwired set ups Simon, me included. Less things to charge, and never any crackles and drop outs. Saying that, there's still plenty of options for incorporating the sP01 into a wireless setup as many users have already. 

    GPZ - just connect to the WM12's headphone socket

    SDC (or any other unit for that matter) - mount the sP01 on the unit and run a wireless transmitter from the sP01 output. 

    6000 - cleanest way is to get a Quest LL wireless receiver, and plug the sP01 into that. (1/4" socket onboard)

    https://phasetechnical.com.au/quest-bluetooth-low-latency-receiver-suit-gpx6000/

    Still strong demand for the sP01, and the headphones seem to have gained in popularity in the last few months as well, which is unusual as it's usually the quieter time for gold prospecting related gear so can't work that out. 

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, Nedkelly said:

    From my testing the 6k is better than the E1500 with any coil or settings for depth. As you would expect for the price.

    The difference becomes a lot more obvious with larger coils.

    I tested the larger coils on an Australian 20 cent piece that I buried deep years ago. The 6k with the 17"×13" minelab coil will hit it 6" to 8" deeper than the E1500 with larger coils.

    The big coils I tried:

    18" coiltek elite 

    18" nuggetfinder advantage 

    Still haven't tried the 15" nuggetfinder evolution, it's the next contender when I get out again.

    On the E1500 I think a 17x13" evo would give you the best depth on a 20c coin. I did a quick air test on pretty low sensitivity (too close to suburbia) on a bunch of coils, and the 17x13" was the best by about 5-10mm. 

    Just curious how were you altering the depth if the target was already buried - just raising the coil or using blocks?

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  6. 7 hours ago, Norvic said:

    Sure shows how good that Sadie although bundle wound is up against the Evo 14x9 Spiral wound, my use I believe the 12EVO round would hit target even better and at more depth, I only have the Sadie and the 12EVO Round for the E1500 plus am going by field use, gold undug and no side x side comparison thus nothing concrete just my judgement call in the field. 

     

    Not on video, but comparing the 14x9 and 12" round, the 14x9" has a very slight edge in signal sharpness on stuff under 0.1g, but the 12" Evo starts to show better depth once targets start to go bigger than about half a gram. On a 5c coin, I was getting nearly 2cm better depth with the 12 round. The 12" round is also much less reactive to hot rocks compared to the Sadie. 

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  7. 14 hours ago, Ethan in Adelaide said:

     

    changing from difficult to high yield would need a GB again, do you use ferrite ring and quick track together to go through again or just pump the coil? Thanks.

    Difficult and High Yield can run at the same time. 

    If changing from High Yield into General (or vice versa), I check my ferrite balance. Now I'm usually in Semi Auto GB, so I can ground balance by just pumping the coil, but the ferrite balance needs to be done with the Quick Trak button. So if I'm not getting a response from the ferrite, I just pump the coil and go. If I am getting a response, then press Quick Trak and sweep over the ferrite until it's no longer responding. 

    The machine saves a different ferrite balance for each Ground Type/Gold Mode combination, so you only have to do it once. 

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  8. On 2/14/2024 at 7:52 PM, Whatsthetime said:

    Very good post mate, but what do you mean by .....manual ground grab.....

    Regards Fred

    Looking back to the beginning, all good gold detectors had to have some form of ground balance - it was initially done manually by turning one or two pots, and then Minelab came out with Tracking, but the initial ground balance or Reset, like on the GT16000 was also automatic (as opposed to turning knobs), and generally faster than the slower "tracking" ground balance. At some point it was all just referred to as Auto Ground Balance, and Minelab tried to differentiate the two by calling the initial faster balance a Quick Trak. Quick Trak was trademarked, so only Minelab could use that term, so I may be wrong but I think the term GRAB first appeared on some US made detectors - basically another name for the fast auto balance or ground balance reset, (not to be confused with continual tracking).

    Any method of ground balance requires you to pump the coil, but the differences are:

    Turning knobs or pressing +/- keypads = Manual

    Push button = Auto

    Ground balance automatically updated as you are sweeping = Tracking

    So the AlgoForce has an auto ground balance or you could call it a ground grab - same feature, different name. 

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  9. 8 hours ago, Norvic said:

    Exactly Steve, I suspect that is why a lot complained of losing small pieces in the dig with the 6K, you swing it over a weak signal enough times the autoGB will take it out. Fixed option as per the Axiom and the E1500 is the go for most of us. Of course the Axiom gives you further speed options for autoGB which is the bees knees.

    What's worse is watching comparisons videos and they are doing narrow repeated sweeps over the target. Or digging ground noises and not once moving the coil away, pumping it, and then re-checking the area. 

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  10. On 2/8/2024 at 8:43 AM, Taz said:

    Hi, may have been answered already but there's so many pages of stuff I may have missed it.

    Is the bottom shaft the same diameter as the Minelab ones so I could use the longer one I kept from my 5000 on it? I find the industry standard length ones and will the overall length of this 1500 a bit too short. All Minelab machines over the years have been too short for me and I used longer lower shafts on them all. I'll definitely need to use a longer shaft than the supplied one this has. Cheers.

     

    Can't speak for others but I'm 6'4" and I can get that Sadie coil much further out in front of me than I would ever want. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, Nedkelly said:

    Thanks Simon,  all very good points.  With the coil cable , I've tried the clips, the Velcro fasteners ,and keep going back to good old fashioned electrical tape.

     

    100% this! Nice and stretchy, locks the cable in place, and comes off clean. Any sticky residue is easily removed with a bit of WD40 on paper towel. With Velcro wraps, you really need a strip of stick on Velcro on the shaft, and then wrap the velcro strap on this. This way it won't spin. 

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  12. 6 hours ago, RONS DETECTORS MINELAB said:

    Nenad,

    thanks for putting all this together, very informative and interesting.

    Would you recommend that the 14x9”Evo is a good all around coil option for this detector and its timings considering the ground conditions you detect in there.

    Early days so far, but I'm starting to feel that may be the best option for the use of Fine. For Ultra Fine which is capable of tiny specks, a smaller coil will probably still be better. But in areas with zippy hotrocks, a 14x9" Evo in Fine is will be a lot easier to handle than a Sadie in Ultra Fine. 

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