My New GPX 6000 Is Faulty, Straight Out Of The Box

[phrunt]

Ok Nenad, your tips were very helpful, I appreciate that.

I just drove about 20 minutes away from the nearest power line, in a remote farm area with no known major EMI sources to me, my GPX had a threshold I'd even call a nice threshold on the highest manual sensitivity, much better than what I've ever had with it previously.  It still went crazy with EMI randomly especially when I put it down to dig something but a noise cancel fixed it up and it went good again, sometimes just picking it up and walking a bit calmed it down again, Geosense confuses me ?

Running the detector on the lowest volume caused quite a marked improvement in stability I think, it also made smaller targets easier to hear, that and it was running far nicer.  I was using headphones so even though the GPX volume was on lowest it was plenty loud enough.

I've also fixed my coil cable to keep it further away from the coil, much like Sheppo's example in his photo.

I didn't take my phone with me for two reasons, one was any introduced EMI and two I wasn't going to bother doing a video as I had my doubts it would make any meaningful difference in performance adjusting a few things.

What took me by surprise is there was virtually no performance difference at all when using difficult over normal with the GPX, not that I could see anyway,  I expected it be be like the GPZ where if I switch to difficult the detector becomes neutered on small gold compared to normal, it makes quite a difference.

Then I had a lightbulb moment. Because I can run my GPZ maxed out in normal the performance is unlike those that have to run in difficult with their GPZ where as with the GPX those that would normally have to run in difficult on their GPZ with the lesser performance also run in difficult on the GPX yet the GPX performance isn't hindered by being in difficult.  This possibly means they'll get better small gold performance on the GPX than they would the GPZ.  It's all starting to make sense now! ?

While in these settings like difficult and lower volume level along with a different location away from EMI I didn't really get much of an overall performance improvement I did get quite the usability improvement and I could also hear the faint small targets a fair bit better than before due to the lower GPX volume.  

I'm now thinking I need to rig up my SP01 Enhancer to the GPX and take advantage of this lower volume stability.

Thanks again, they were great tips. 

I also found the Avantree Torus neck speaker thing on Amazon Australia so that's been ordered, free delivery to NZ and only $149AUD.

[PhaseTech]

7 hours ago, phrunt said:

Oi, don't get lippy about my 0.03 of a gram nugget! It's what we have around here ?  When I found the 4 gram nugget the other day I struggled to fit it into my gold bottle, I just don't need a big gold bottle ?

 

Don't worry, plenty more tiny pieces of gold in nature than big ones - that is true everywhere. Not to mention the bigger ones are/were a lot easier to detect, so the tiddlers are all that is left in many spots. I just like to reserve the title of Nugget when I get the odd bigger one, and anything over 10 grams can be called a LUMP ? As you know, I am in South Australia, probably the worst state for detectable gold. Actually we do mine a lot of gold here, but it is predominately what is produced as a by-product way way down by the big miners. 

[afreakofnature]

Nugget size is relative to where you live ?

[phrunt]

6 hours ago, afreakofnature said:

Nugget size is relative to where you live ?

Of course it is.

[GB_Amateur]

On 5/8/2022 at 4:24 AM, phrunt said:

I've no concerns about Minelab's warranty, I've virtually had to claim warranty on every product I've ever bought from them....  (emphasis mine)

And we wonder why their stock price is dropping.  ?  Nice example of "damning with faint praise."  (Not a negative criticism of you, BTW.)  This thread is currently five days old, 12 pages long, but I'm just getting around to reading it.  As a non-6k owner I can sit back with a bowl of popcorn plus a glass of vino and (try to) see the big picture.  It sure appears to be a mixed bag....

[phrunt]

I'm just frustrated GB, and I'm frustrated some try and make out like these problems are not a problem.  To someone who's paid the hyper inflated price for a GPX 6000 it is a big problem when they get a range of faults with it.  It's not cheap, I've had $100 detectors that are flawless, why is it I get one of the most expensive ever made and it's riddled with problems, not just mine, hearing of the many others with problems too, it's a real mixed bag.  Fortunately my dealers on my side 100%, none of it is his fault.

I'm still waiting on Minelab to come back with what they want to do, my dealers contacted them, it's just a waiting game for their decision.   Minelab need to understand NZ has a consumer guarantees act much like Australia does, if it all doesn't go down how I want it I can just give it back to my dealer and get my money back so their decision means absolutely nothing.

[geof_junk]

The fixing is one thing, and they may fix it but that is only half the problem. What about the loss of confidence of the unit as well as the wasted detecting time. My old ML detector got fixed and I could not fault their service. Being about 3000 Km from home on the gold fields without my gold tool for over a week is not nice. But at least I had the wife's detector to use and got more gold than she did that week ?. The main thing to note, is bad quality control will cause more damage than it cost to up the standard.

[Tom T]

3 hours ago, phrunt said:

I'm just frustrated GB, and I'm frustrated some try and make out like these problems are not a problem.  To someone who's paid the hyper inflated price for a GPX 6000 it is a big problem when they get a range of faults with it.  It's not cheap, I've had $100 detectors that are flawless, why is it I get one of the most expensive ever made and it's riddled with problems, not just mine, hearing of the many others with problems too, it's a real mixed bag.  Fortunately my dealers on my side 100%, none of it is his fault.

I'm still waiting on Minelab to come back with what they want to do, my dealers contacted them, it's just a waiting game for their decision.   Minelab need to understand NZ has a consumer guarantees act much like Australia does, if it all doesn't go down how I want it I can just give it back to my dealer and get my money back so their decision means absolutely nothing.

You’ve got me confused now…. I thought you got all your problems sorted out?

[phrunt]

I'm not sure if my problems are sorted, how could I know?, I had a theory based upon someone else having bad pin connections on theirs, that could possibly be the similar problem to mine, or it could be solder joints, or any number of things.  That's why it's best it gets checked rather than just assuming.   So many people have contacted me now with their problems privately that the issues pretty widespread.

I also have faulty headphones, they're not resolved yet, still waiting on Minelab to let my dealer know what to do with me, the problem customer ?