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  1. Sorry if this is a little off topic, but I thought this might be interesting to the GPZ owners/prospective owners out there. There is an event held in Virginia several times a year called "Digging in Virginia" (DIV), and the dealer I bought my Zed from is involved in the hunt this year (Keith Leppert of Fort Bedford Detectors.) Anyway, an area scoured with the GPX series was scanned by Keith, and he found a large number of additional civil war bullets with the GPZ, at much greater depth. Here is a link to a blog with the results: http://detectingsaxapahaw.blogspot.com/2015/03/div-blog-day-3-going-deep-with-zed.html And a link to the DIV postings: http://www.mytreasurespot.com/main/read.php?5,650501,650501#msg-650501 Best, Bob
  2. A likely nugget find is made in Arizona and settings tested on it before digging. From our good friend Doc.
  3. http://golddetecting.4umer.net/t21243-3-gpz-s-in-the-field-for-a-week-review This is a well written and informative report. Unfortunately, I am not surprised to hear about a bad coil in one respect due to the complexity of the coil. On the other hand, how in the world does a $10,000 detector get out the factory door with a bad coil? I understand a company cranking $500 detectors out the door can't check every one. But for $10K that would seem to be something the purchaser is paying for. Hopefully just early days issues with quality control that will get sorted out. I have noted elsewhere that the GPZ 14 coil gives really complex targets response up close when the target is near the windings. Double blips, reversing tones, etc. The deeper responses are more even and "normal". Interesting that these blokes have used that as a sort of shallow target discrimination feature, going only for deeper mellow targets and ignoring the complex surface signals in trashy areas. Would work very well in birdshot, for instance. You would miss a very shallow nugget also but the method is a sound one for trashy locations.
  4. Nice drizzly and cold day today, suits me perfect since I can't stand heat, I had Rye Patch all to myself. I'm not very familiar with this area so I was just out to test settings on the Z and get a bunch of swinging time in since I've been mostly patch hunting with the 45. Got 5 all from one side of a small feeder wash near what I'm assuming is the main area. Sens 18 High Yield Normal and Difficult (switching as required) High Audio Smoothing Kind of going the opposite direction with the settings and running the machine really hot but then letting the High audio smoothing stabilize the whole mess. I'm liking this in ground that allows it. I know the general consensus is Difficult/No Audio Smoothing/Low Sensitivty, but the advantage to running HIGH is that it kills almost all EMI, eliminates a lot of "smooshy" hot ground noise, but still lets the sharper target signals in when you kick up the sens and move into Normal. Anyone else trying the same? Again, only good where you are lucky to have low mineral ground. But I found this was more palatable to me than running in medium sensitivity and HY/Diff/Low Audio surprisingly, even on a few hot patches. I ran the GB2 over the little patch I found and didn't come up with any more gold but I did get a few sub grain size pieces of tin and a couple pieces of tiny candy foil that the Z missed. I really want more adjustment control on the Audio Smoothing like a slider instead of 3 discrete functions. Also, having 2 more ground settings would be great, one in between Normal/Diff and one between Diff/Severe. Or a slider if that's possible, but I'm guessing the ground timings are their own thing seperately.
  5. Been copping too much flak on our Australian forums so I'd rather if Steve does not mind just post on this forum from now on. *************************************************************************************************************************************************** I've now owned my GPZ 7000 30 days with 50 odd grams in the hand. Works out at 1.6666667 grams per day. A week of that I was just a tad sick ( really sick that is ) with the flu and laryngitis working flogged areas that are not renowned for large nugs.Trying to learn this beast. I'll take that anytime while I'm still very much a newbie ( 6 months on Gold 15 years as a Beachie ) Also just yesterday was a most interesting time for me everything from hospital ( cut my arm badly on a broken branch needed stiches which I declined as the Doc said I'd have to have the arm in a sling ) to a complete computer crash with heaps of challenges in-between. Wont bore anyone with too much detail but will say I have been out in the field for a couple of days with two GPZ 7000 with a good mate who just happens to be a Minelab treasure talk tester learning heaps. Over half an ounce detected using all sorts of settings between us with far to much laughing and drinking in the evening pub mix. >grin<... After farewells to that hunt the cream on the cake was giving a bit of advise ( and a small nugget ) to a old bloke who was having heaps of trouble stepping up from his GPX 5000 to the ZED. He was so rapped he wandered back about 10 minutes later and literally (* Talk about X marks the spot *) gave me all his maps and pictures where he has pulled a 109 gram and a 89 gram nuggets in the past with many ounces since. Swearing there is plenty more there. So I'm really hopeful on that trip away when I get time and heal up. What a nice guy Ps.... That same old bloke rang me not 3 hours later with the news he and his son had christened his brand new GPZ 7000 with a half grammer his sons first ever. That one call has had me happy all day made my day in fact.. aussie
  6. I noticed that the coil cover on the gpz is alot different from covers I am accustomed to. My question how are y'all sealing the cover to keep the very fine dirt out of it. Also, what is the best method of removing the cover if that is needed? I got a tracking number for my replacement it should arrive sometime Monday.... being an old drywaller I have heard "the check is in the mail thing" too many times so; I am skeptical... fred
  7. Posted by gullyhunter. That's very strange... unless he tracked out the target by pumping the coil?
  8. Ok, I was trying to stay under the radar...but, my battery for the gpz does not take or hold a charge...I have a 3030 so the charger is not new to me. I immediately put the batteries to charge while I continued my painting project. After 4 hours or so I saw the green lights were steady so I thought I would turn the gpz on...no power! I took the connecters to the detector apart and reassembled, took the battery out and reinstalled...nada! I put the ctx battery on and lights and power came on . Then I tried the gpz battery and it worked so I thought there was dust or something...I put it away and went back to painting, eager to get done so I can hit the goldfields... After cleaning up for the day,I picked up my gpz to turn it on and cuddle with it but no power...what the heck! I put the 3030 battery back in and she got turned on... I don't know what other trouble shooting to do???????????????????????? any suggestions, this is really going to delay my trip.............................................. fred
  9. Well sorry the pictures aren't better quality but you get the idea. Someone was asking about a sun shade for the GPZ after pricing these on ebay I decided to make my own. The shade was free and it took about 10 minutes to make we'll see how good it holds up. I made it from industrial Velcro using the sticky back to mount to the side of the screen... pretty easy to cut out and mount, be sure to prep the side and top of the screen with alcohol first. Have fun!
  10. Can the 3030 use the WM 12 or the 7000 use the WM 10? I tried with the 7000 and the 10 and couldn't get a connect. I'll be trying again. Anyone else try it?
  11. Here it is folks. Loaded with tuning tips! http://www.minelab.com/__files/f/254716/KBA%2024-1%20Basics%20of%20the%20GPZ%207000%20Technology%20Zero%20Voltage%20Transmission%20(ZVT).pdf "A significant technical achievement of GPZ 7000 ZVT technology was in creating the ultra‐stable transmitted magnetic field during the receive period, to ensure that the large reactive component of the soil signal, X, is not detected, in the same way that it is not detected in PI." Figure 2 shows a comparison between the ZVT VRM soil signal and the nearest equivalent PI soil VRM signal; both transmitted magnetic signals being bi‐polar, with the same fundamental frequency and same rapid change of magnetic field period. It should be noted that the PI receive period is half that of the ZVT period, because the PI system shown in figure 2 transmits for half the time and receives for the other half of the time, unlike ZVT that transmits and receives simultaneously just about all of the time. The important difference in the VRM signals is that the PI signal decays away substantially faster than the ZVT system. This indicates that the receive signal for PI is less sensitive to longer Time Constant (TC) components compared to shorter TC targets than ZVT, and this is one of the main reasons why ZVT technology is better at detecting large nuggets compared to PI; another main reason being from the double length receive period in ZVT compared to PI for the same fundamental frequency.
  12. This shows that a GPZ 7000 can be made to work on a salt water beach, at least enough for a video. It was not mentioned in the video but the TDI used for comparison was probably run with ground balance off. The TDI is a formidable beach detector in straight up non-ground balance mode.
  13. Hello All, Just a FYI, make sure you understand the settings and what is working best. I just realized the first day out, even though I found 8 nuggets, I was running settings that were no better than the GPX 5000 after some further testing. What I would consider a large nugget, the GPZ considers it a "small" nugget, which is best for High Yield over General. I also realized "Difficult" soil really makes the unit purr, but takes a lot of performance away on the ground I was hunting. I was trying to find a happy medium from a noisy Normal to a Difficult soil setting with a higher gain. Experiment is the key. What I originally thought was good, wasnt .....
  14. My GPZ arrives in two weeks and while I wait with nail biting anticipation I'm trawling the net for information on this machine. My opportunities to get onto gold are limited as I live 4 hours by road from any gold bearing ground and this means I have to plan my detecting time in near military detail. To this end any info on the GPZ will go a long way towards maximising my results. I'm sure there are others in the same predicament. There is very useful info from JP and Steve on GPZ operation being posted and this has wetted my appetite for more on how to make this machine sing like my 5000. To this end is it practical for GPZ tips and tricks to be posted in a single location? Cheers Peter
  15. I see some being made in AUS but is anyone making or selling them here? Minelab - these should be standard OEM issue with the 7000. Especially considering the plastic body scratches easy and the screen is now the main control unit and its very difficult to read in the sun.
  16. It appears I am the only one that has a problem with the GPS software on the GPZ, JP and Steve do you use moving map software such as Ozies Oziexplorer, USA`s Fugawi etc? I note one of the Gold Hounds has such mounted on Mtrbike. I use and have used a GPS almost as long as a detector, to combine it with the detector is a logical step, to me that is. Not about safety from getting lost, is about lowering the amount of country to detect. Find a run of nuggets, clean up but which way to the next shed, if you`ve found that run on a fault follow the fault, but if there is no mapped fault, look back at two runs follow same direction, it`s there, it is not luck, there is a pattern.
  17. As has been evident in recent weeks, the subject of Minelab's latest offering garners a lot of highly emotive and oft times erroneous comment, embarrassingly most of the noise comes from my own home country. This post is an attempt to quantify my thoughts, ideas and personal experiences on the subject of GPZ in an attempt to help the genuine people who I really care about and want to do right by. Firstly let me say, I've waited 19 years for the opportunity to see a totally new technology like ZVT to come to the fore, I've known about it for a very long time and have been involved in its development right from the start, so my levels of intimacy with this detector are very acute. A small part of me is intertwined with every detector that Minelab ships, that intimacy is shared with a lot of very special people at Minelab who don't have a public voice but who do have the same connection as me, to those people I want to say thank you for your dedication and hard work in getting the GPZ 7000 to where it is today. The core focus behind GPZ was simplicity, to that end they had to take a VERY complicated technology and make it as simple to use as possible, I feel they have done an amazing job. The GPZ has a lot going on under the hood, the very fact it works so well is a testament to Bruce Candy's genius and the willingness of Codan/Minelab to get behind the technology monetarily and develop it to the level of refinement its achieved in its first iteration, a very expensive exercise in this day and age. Each time I turn the production version of the GPZ 7000 on I just grin in true appreciation, it is gob smackingly good. Even after weeks of exposure I still find myself tingling with delight at its intricacy, I just love listening to it purr, the subtleties of the audio response are music to my ear. Why, you ask, can I wax so lyrical about the GPZ? Its simple, I have unwavering faith in its performance and the people behind the design. I have seen with my own eyes what the GPZ with ZVT can do, I have experienced the subtle grunt of this detector on more occasions than I can count! I know it is "livening up targets" at depths never achieved before by a PI machine, even with the supplied GPZ14 Super-D coil. I know every time I go detecting its just a matter of time and a little patience and I will be tapping into the future success story of GPZ all over again. "Bang......real world"........ The real world does not work like what I've written above, the real world is hard work and perseverance!! The real world kicks you in the proverbial's and screams "GET UP YOU SLACKER!!!" But I have a secret weapon against the real world, I have a weapon I carry with me each and every time I go detecting, its the same secret weapon I've carried with me since I first started out. Its called the human condition, the ability to visualize success and reward, the ability to take on the real world and "get up and stop being a slacker" when the going gets tough. Maybe this is why the release of the GPZ 7000 is such an emotive subject, because all of you have the same monkey on your back, the "Real World" monkey. The GPZ 7000 is what it is, you can either believe or not believe. I believe!!! I'm listening to what the GPZ has to say, I'm all ears to the nuances of its wireless audio stream, and I'm primed for when it livens up a target missed by the PI's!! "The wise old Owl sat in an oak, the more he heard the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard, why can't we be like that wise old bird". No one ever learns anything with their mouth open, me included!!! JP
  18. I realize the discussion on pricing is beyond old, but since I reside in Canada in the summer I thought I'd check out pricing there. $9999.00 Canadian. Current exchange rate now is about $1.00US=$1.25CAN after fees. So if you bought in Alberta where the only sales tax is 5% federal GST and threw in the exchange rate you'd be paying about $8400 US out the door. Of course, if you only have $Can you still are paying $9999.00. ;-)
  19. OK, you have seen the ad above in the Minelab GPZ 7000 brochure. Now you get to hear the rest of the story. This is a more detailed version of an email I sent to Minelab last fall regarding the new GPZ 7000. The background is I had been using the GPZ prototype for some time but was underwhelmed. I was initially put off by the weight and frankly it was just not my trusty old GPX 5000 and I was slow to shift gears. Yes, the machine performed but I had not seen anything that particularly knocked my socks off and had not been shy in saying so to Minelab. I had an opportunity to return to a location in northern Nevada I had hunted gold previously in 2013. On that visit a portion of hillside was pointed out as the location of several nice nugget finds, including some delicate specimen gold. I did what any prospector would do and concentrated on hunting this area hard with my GPX 5000. I knew I was dealing with an area hunted hard with previous Minelab PI detectors and hot VLF detectors like the Fisher Gold Bug 2. I was the first there with a GPX 5000 however so figured I was going to find something others had missed. I was running a 14” x 9” Nugget Finder mono and set it up in Sharp at Gain of 16 which is a reasonably hot setting. I was disappointed to find nothing but bullets, and so I switched to a used White’s GMT I had just acquired. This high frequency VLF detector was able to find two small and very porous gold specimens. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting-gold/379162-nevada-gold-found-white-s-gmt.html Having found these, I again scoured the area but there appeared to be nothing else to find. I was not the only person to detect this location of course and so I just figured it was pretty well detected out. The Minelab SDC 2300 came out in 2014 and Chris Ralph and I both had units which we were using with great success on gold the GPX was weak on. Small, porous, prickly gold. An invite came to visit the property again in the fall of 2014 and Chris and I figured the SDC would be just the thing to succeed where the GPX had failed. We were field testing the GPZ 7000 prototype also by this time. Chris was tied up but I had a chance to leave earlier and camped out a couple days in Humboldt County hunting with the GPZ. I was really pleased finding just shy of a half ounce (15.5 grams) of nice gold, including a solid 6 pennyweight (9.4 gram) nugget which was my largest with the GPZ to date. I was now starting to warm to the machine which seemed particularly well suited to the wide open spaces of northern Nevada. 15.5 Grams of Northern Nevada Gold Found with GPZ 7000 The GPZ was of course a super secret project at that point, and so when I met Chris at the miner’s claims I had it carefully stowed away and pretty much forgot about it. The plan was to hunt with the SDC detectors. I pointed out the location where I had hunted with the GPX and GMT to Chris Ralph so he could give it a go with the SDC. Frankly, I did not think he would find a lot but the new SDC 2300 certainly had a chance of making some finds there. I hunted another hot spot nearby, and my own SDC 2300 found four or five nice little specimen pieces. I was really pleased when Chris showed up and showed me two fat specimen pieces, weighing about one quarter ounce in total. Everyone was very impressed with the SDC 2300 and the gold it was finding in areas hunted over and over with PI detectors and hot VLF detectors like the Fisher Gold Bug 2. We stayed the night but Chris had to leave the next day and it was good he went home with gold in his pocket. One of the claim owners also left, and it was down to just me and one claim partner. I stayed and hunted, finding another small specimen with the SDC 2300. I went a couple hours with no finds, and decided to wander over to the area where Chris had scored to see if I could do anything there. The claim owner and I puttered around awhile there then he decided it was time to go back to camp and grab some lunch. I was about to get going again with the SDC 2300 when I realized I had the new GPZ prototype still in my truck. The claim owner was over the hill out if sight, and since he had just left me I figured it was pretty safe to get GPZ out and give it a quick go. So I went back to my truck, switched out detectors, and headed to where Chris had marked his gold finds. Chris had hunted right where I had found the two specimens the year before with the GMT. I was a bit surprised I had missed two nearly 1/8th oz pieces but they were deeper than the GMT was going or I had written them off as ground noise. His two specimens were found only ten feet apart, and I could tell he had hammered the location. Every square inch of the dusty ground was covered with footprints. I fired up the GPZ and gave it a few swings, and was surprised to almost immediately get a nice signal exactly between the two little rock piles marking his find locations. I gave a few digs and revealed a nice specimen weighing about 3 grams! I know I had been over this location with a GPX 5000 and a GMT. Chris is very methodical when on a patch, and I know the SDC 2300 is more capable than the GPX 5000 when it comes to small specimen gold. How could this be? I suddenly realized I had something very special indeed in my hands. I wandered down slope, and right at the bottom of the hill where it started to flatten out I got another signal, and another couple gram specimen. Then only about 20 feet away I got another one. Now I was really getting excited. Less than ten feet away I got a real boomer signal, but it proved to be a bullet. Then a few feet, and another large signal. I dug deep into the hardpan, and know at that point it has to be gold. I dug carefully so as not to damage it, and finally recovered a solid lump quite a few inches down. It was an 11.2 gram or just over one third ounce gold specimen! The property owners were very gracious and had told Chris and I we could keep all the gold we found. I appreciated that, but I also know that is easy to say when you do not think people will find very much, and the owners thought the ground pretty well detected. I was thinking at that point I needed to give them a share of the gold, but truthfully I did not want to part with this big lump, so I told myself I needed to find more gold. The problem was time was running out and I was worried the claim owner might come looking for me soon and see me with the GPZ. So I started scanning with 7000 as fast as if I was in a VLF competition hunt. My goal now was to just cover as much of this area as I could in a short amount of time. Apparently speed does not hurt the GPZ all that much, because in short order I found another couple gram specimen. More frantic scanning, and another nice piece popped out of the ground. This was crazy – I know I had hunted this area! I expanded the area of the hunt, but the gold seemed to be on a very tight line heading down the slope. Some time passed, and another two or three gram specimen saw the light of day. Now I was getting really worried the claim owner would show up and see me with the GPZ. I had a pouch full of gold specimens, and was really amped up at that point. I had not found that many large chunks of gold that fast in very many years. To say I was stunned would be an understatement. I had to quit though, and so I hunted up the slope so I could go back and show the claim owner my finds, and bring him back to hunt some more. I just figured I would put the GPZ away and go back to using the SDC 2300. I made a bee line up the hill to where my truck was parked, swinging all the way, when I got another good signal. I dug and it got louder. And louder. I was into the hard material now and knew it had to be gold, so I slowed up and worked the edges of the hole carefully. The last thing I wanted to do was ruin a nice specimen. Finally, about a foot down I grabbed a handful of loosened soil that screamed when I waved it over the coil, and I felt a lump drop into my other hand when I went to separate it. This one was at least twice as large as the big one I found earlier!! I was having a Eureka Moment. This whole experience was mind blowing. I was finding gold right and left as if this location had never seen a detector before. The GPZ 7000 was working some serious electronic magic, and it seemed it was particularly effective on porous specimen gold at depth that other detectors have a hard time seeing. The GPZ 7000 was hitting this stuff not with weak but with strong signals, like the SDC but with a coil size much larger than that on the SDC 2300. It was able to not only detect the kind of gold once only found with hot VLF detectors, but hit it at depths far exceeding what one of the best hot VLF detectors, the White’s GMT, could attain in this soil. I was literally shaking I was so excited. The large specimen looked to be all gold with no rock showing but was very porous in appearance. Not like steel wool but more like a lot of tiny pieces of gold all lightly stuck together. I could tell it was going to be spectacular when cleaned up, and it later weighed in at just over 24 grams or nearly eight tenths of an ounce. I decided then and there I had found the chunk I would give to the property owners. They certainly deserved it and I still had about an ounce of specimen gold I could take home with me. People may wonder at this a bit, but I believe in taking care of people that take care of me, and the day I was having was as good as it gets for me metal detecting. I just found 1.6 ounces of gold in less than three hours, was on cloud nine, and wanted everyone to share as much as possible in that experience. To say the property owners were surprised and appreciative would be the understatement of the century. It really just does not get better than that. All this happiness and great times were facilitated through the magic of metal detecting and the extreme capability of one detector in particular. Not to be overlooked however is the SDC 2300 which also shined very much along with the GPZ. My only regret is that I could not tell the claim owners the complete story at that time. Sorry friends, I hope you understand, but now you know the rest of the story! Click images for larger views.... Fresh Out Of The Ground On The Scale - 1.64 Ounces! A Quick Rinse and a Side View Of Large Specimen Top View On The Scale - 0.79 Ounce My Share Of GPZ Gold After Initial Cleaning - 0.85 Ounce Photo Emailed To Me Of 0.79 Ounce Specimen After Cleaning This post has been promoted to an article
  20. I've seen parts of this comment re-posted numerous times now and feel I need to clarify my remarks on the subject of warming up..... (originally posted here http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/topic/665-my-take-on-the-minelab-gpz-7000/page-2 post 34) When you first switch the GPZ on at the start of a session, the auto GB electronics require the coil to be moved across the ground to get good averaging data to allow the detector to run as smooth as possible, this is over and above the initial GB which removes the bulk of ground signal. This averaging process can take 10 to 20 minutes depending on the ground you are working in and the Gold mode used (especially High Yield). There are multiple components to the GB of the GPZ 7000, removing the bulk of the ground signal noise is only one part of the equation. Hope this explains things more succinctly. JP
  21. Just posted to YouTube, 1 hour 22 minutes video shot by independent operators (no Minelab ties) in Australia. I am speaking at the local club meeting in an hour so am just going to post this without viewing and run. You guys have to watch and offer your thoughts for me when I get back in three hours!
  22. So I was out in the goldfields of California yesterday with Steve Herschbach and another friend who is a detector dealer. We did some quick tests comparing the 5000 and the GPZ on mossy, wiry gold that we had found previously. These were pieces from both Nevada and California. The smaller of the two nuggets shown in the attached photo weighs 3 grams and with an 11 inch mono set on maximum gain of 20, it was totally invisible to the 5000 - even when it was touching the coil. The detector made no response whatsoever. The GPZ on the other hand could see it at about 10 inches, and it was dug from a pounded patch that has seen many GPX detectors (including mine) at a depth of about 6 inches. The GPZ was set for difficult soil at only 12 sensitivity. So what is the performance improvement over the 5000 when one detector is blind to the piece and the other sees it at 10 inches? Mathematically speaking, it is an infinite improvement - a whole lot more than 40%. The larger of the two pieces pictured in this post weighs 18 grams and the 5000 could see it to a maximum of about 10 inches. The GPZ could see it at 20 inches, and it was dug with the GPZ at about 18 inches. Going from 10 inches to 20 inches is a 100% improvement - double the depth of detection and also a lot more than 40%. We also tested some specimen gold Steve had with similar results - the 5000 could not see the smaller specimens of a few grams size. Of course we all know that the 5000 performs very well with more solid nuggets and specimens. I have found lots of gold with my 5000, it is an excellent detector. However, the GPZ is a gigantic improvement over the 5000 when it comes to mossy, wiry, prickly, specimen and other similar forms of gold. Some may say there is not much of this type of gold out there. I would say in response, if most of us are using detectors that perform poorly on that type of gold, how does the fact that we don't find much prove that it doesn't exist? Truth is that there is loads of specimen gold out there and I think the GPZ will be finding a lot of it in the coming weeks and months. Geologically, many of the places where the nugget gold is truly deep are locations where the patch is sitting as a residual over a vein, and having a detector optimized for specimen gold would make very good sense. Some hard rock deposits tend to produce this type of gold. Smart prospectors with GPZ detectors will be using this knowledge to their best advantage. For me, I have been doing research to find places which produce this type of gold and I intend to be using the coming months to leverage this performance increase to the greatest extent.
  23. Hi Steve, guy's I would just like to share some idea's of software up dates that minelab could easily make and either sell or supply to improve the GPZ. If minlab is listening I would not mind paying for updates that improve the detector's performance or usability and I'm sure many others would like to be able to purchase updates on an on going basis and that minelab could have an on going income stream without any manufacturing costs only software development costs and by listerning to us the customers and tailoring updates to suit our needs\wants. We the customer would benefit by getting a better detector without having to fork out for a whole new platform. Win win if you ask me! Any way here are a few ideas of mine for changes that I think would improve the Zed and make it even better. I hope minelab is listerning! 1_ I would like more control over the audio settings like on the 5000, I was very disappointed when I picked up the zed and read the manual and realized that I didn't have the control that I had on the 5000. So I would like full numerical 1_20 control of the stabilizer like on the 5000. I would also like to have the audio type setting back as being able to change the audio curve to suit my circumstances and fine tune with the stabilizer, motion and target volume controls. 2_ I would like to have 10 user modes that I can assighn names and program both on the detector and via exchange so I can set up 10 different groups of settings for different circumstances, like on the ctx with the user modes. And I would like to be able to assighn the modes to my user button so i can toggle between one user mode(groupe of settings) and the one one originally seleted. 3_ Full control of the settings in the excange2 software most notably the assighn user button function. I think that the way the timings are setup now is an improvement over the 5k. As once you understand what they (Gold type and Ground type) do minelab have given us more control over the front and back of the timings and we can now independently optimize for the target size and ground conditions so it is definatly a step in the right direction. Any way thats my thoughts for now I would like to hear what you guys think, and hear any other ideas you guys might have. Regards Dale
  24. I spent two days with my gpz at rye patch, Friday and Saturday from 8 till 4 both days just a couple of short breaks and some relocating to different spots looking for old patches in the pay streak areas. I am completely new to this nugget hunting so the only thing I can really contribute is the experience of a newbie with his detector that I hope I am someday worthy of. What a great adventure, I can say the time went by very quickly and I would have stayed a few more days but did not want to abandon my family for too long. I've been researching for a while, but it still took me half the first day to feel comfortable with my surroundings. Luckily I ran into a few really helpful dectorists and with some help I was able to better understand what I needed to be doing out there, thanks guys very much. The detector was very easy to use, the menu is intuitive and after adjusting the settings a couple of times I felt comfortable navigating and playing with the settings while on the go, switching back to default and readjusting from time to time checking with test gold was also easy. I did not find any gold and am yet to find my first nugget, one of the guys I was hunting near was a former minelab dealer using a 3000, he found a nice chunk near a bush that day not far from where I was. The machine is easy to use, but I may have even walked past it, his knowledge and experience made the difference and I have to thank him again for all the help. I did find bullet shells, live rounds, bullets and tiny tiny bullet fragments, microscopic pieces of rusted tin fragments and sweeping near a rusted tin can sends it into overdrive, it has to be great fo relics if you can dig it all. Over time using it I was able to kind of guess what the target was, but dug anyway...hoping I did not use the supplied guide arm but should have, the weight is tolerable, lighter battery and coil would be better. I agree a smaller coil would have been helpful in the bushes, but I shoved the 14 around in the brush and it was quiet. The threshold was a bit chattery although my test gold a tinny tinny piece produced a clear response. This is getting kind of long... But I did run into part of the gpz gold rush out there at least 4 other gpz s were sweeping the ground at rye patch. I don't know how they all did, but one guy was sporting about a dozen rice grain pieces from his first day, he was also very experienced. Cheers, Clark
  25. I've been back to 5 old patches with the new detector but I'm limited with a health condition as to how long I can swing the detector but It might be up to 40% less I've got about 20 more old patches to re-hunt that will take many more days. So far I've picked up 6.2 dwt's that were missed by several other Minelabs and a gold bug II and different operators over several years of hitting the same patches. I don't think I need to say much about the detector because the testers Steve, Chris, and JP have well written reviews about the GPZ . The biggest nugget so far is a .8 dwt and a .9 dwt nugget. I'm still waiting for the bigger gold.... but in all fairness to the GPZ the ground is mostly deep where the big gold was found and I used big round mono's up to a 25" nuggetfinder and a 24" Coiltek to find the big gold.
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