From Euphoria To Despair

[Joe D.]

WooHoo!! The fun has just begun!!?????

[F350Platinum]

On 7/12/2021 at 8:51 PM, schoolofhardNox said:

 

It's Monday and the replacement machine has arrived!!! Put it together, turned it on and bingo it started ? Can't wait to test it in an area that I have hunted regularly with the 5000. I still get things occasionally but there are some sections that I hammered hard. If I even get one keeper from that area I will be extremely impressed. Now I have to do some reading and have a couple plans of attack in case I get nothing.

Best of luck to you. I'm pretty sure you will find something. ??

[Bryan]

Thanks for the kind words, SchoolofHardNox. I felt so bad that it was DOA. I just had a customer whose 11" coil was bad and causing the same error. Works fine with a different 11" and fine with the 14". All we want is for you all to receive a working product that you are happy with. This GPX roll-out was, shall we say, less than smooth.

Again, thank you for the kind words. I wish everyone was as understanding and patient as you were.

 

-Bryan

Alaska Mining & Diving Supply

907.277.1741

[Roughwater]

Glad you are good to go now.  I gotta say though, the 5000 ain't a bad back up.  Dated or not, it's a powerful machine!  

[schoolofhardNox]

43 minutes ago, Roughwater said:

Glad you are good to go now.  I gotta say though, the 5000 ain't a bad back up.  Dated or not, it's a powerful machine!  

The 6000 is doing better than I thought it would for tiny targets, better than the 5000. But it still has to prove it can hit a silver dime at 18" at the beach. If it can do that, I will be torn on making the 5000 my back up machine ☹️

[1911Colt]

For a ridiculous $6,000, they ought to just send you a whole new unit no questions asked, in fact I would demand it, the one you got could be a lemon giving you problems for years to come.

[mn90403]

4 hours ago, 1911Colt said:

For a ridiculous $6,000, they ought to just send you a whole new unit no questions asked, in fact I would demand it, the one you got could be a lemon giving you problems for years to come.

I think that is what happened.

[schoolofhardNox]

22 hours ago, 1911Colt said:

For a ridiculous $6,000, they ought to just send you a whole new unit no questions asked, in fact I would demand it, the one you got could be a lemon giving you problems for years to come.

I had a new machine sent to me in 4 days. That was even before I sent the broken one back. I can't ask for better service than that. ?

[schoolofhardNox]

So I had my third hunt with the 6000. It was a short hunt at another native site that was not inhabited for very long, and a bit newer than the village I'm used to doing. 1637 vs 1723.  So targets will not be as plentiful as the other site, even though it's the newer site. I picked this area because it has some fairly hot electrical lines running along side it, as well as the Acela train fairly close by. Both of those gave my GPX 5000 problems when I got near them. I started by using the 11" mono coil, since it performed better at the previous location. It did not handle the EMI well at all, even on 1 bar sensitivity. So I reluctantly switched to the 14" DD to see if the EMI cancelling would be better here than at the previous spot. Since the EMI was way more noticeable here, I did not expect much. To my surprise, it handled the EMI extremely well. purred like a kitten ?. I'm not sure why that happened but it did. I also noticed that running ground difficult at this site was detrimental to getting a clean signal but normal picked the target up clearly!  Again, opposite from the previous site. Even though the sites appear similar in soil and vegetation, and were relatively close to each other (about a mile apart), they responded completely different. The only similarity between the two sites was that I found quite a lot of small targets that the 5000 missed. These were shallow targets in the 1/2" to 7" range mostly small lead shot, 22's and their casings, and some thin scrap brass. A couple of nice rose head nails sounded loud and clear as well. The 6000 is showing me that I should have experimented more with other timings on the 5000 to try and get these small targets to respond. All and all I'm still more impressed with the 6000 than I thought I would be. Next week, if all goes well, I'll be at a Rev war site project to see what I can find for their project. I hear this guy detecting there is a very good detectorist, so I'll be bringing the 5000, 6000 and EQ800. I love a challenge ?