Finally Minelab Take Responsibility For Screwing Up The GPX 6000 Speaker

[Ridge Runner]

If I was unhappy with my 6000 I’d just throw it in the trash and I did but it don’t belong to me. I forgot it belongs to a friend and he made me go dig it back out.

 Would you believe a guy would buy a 6000 and have it sent to you. We both nuts. He did and it’s still at my house.

[dig4gold]

1 hour ago, Ridge Runner said:

If I was unhappy with my 6000 I’d just throw it in the trash and I did but it don’t belong to me. I forgot it belongs to a friend and he made me go dig it back out.

 Would you believe a guy would buy a 6000 and have it sent to you. We both nuts. He did and it’s still at my house.

MMMMM... Expensive throw away.

D4G

[jasong]

Got it back, Detector Center did a great job with fast turnaround. Original control box and original coil came back, pretty sure the original speaker is still in there too. 1.7hrs labor. As noted previously no other problems noted and just the fix was performed.

So, either they missed a problem or location itself plays a part in the instability issues and we'll see if this fix address it. Not guessing - there are just no other options. Consider: I posted some videos months back showing the detector running completely unstable, and no amount of noise cancels would correct it. This phenomenon occurs in some locations and not others, and is repeatable in the same locations. So since my detector has a clean bill of health and no other problems were found/fixed (and assuming they didn't miss a problem), it's safe to say that location specific instability issue is inherent to the 6000 itself, or whatever was addressed by this fix. There is no other explanation, it's one or the other. 

It'll be 10 days at least until I can get away long enough to make the drive to gold country and test in the same locations. But I will put the detector together tomorrow and drive out to the prairie just to make sure it's all working, and set the detector on the ground to see if it stays stable. But it needs to be tested in locations I know were previously undetectable due to instability to see what really got fixed.

 

[WesD]

Sounds good,  looking forward to hearing if your emi clears up.  Like you said it is mainly location specific emi, and I've experience the same here in Nor Cal. Some areas good,  some bad, and no rhyme or reason. Headphones dont clear up the emi on my detector, and I have just learned to deal with it over the past year.  But it sure would be nice to have a smooth threshold tone, as I really enjoy the detector when its running right!

[Aureous]

8 hours ago, GotAU? said:

If that doesn’t bother you maybe wait until you can part with your detector for a while.

Yeah I was thinking that, maybe during our Summer when its too hot to go out prospecting. Thanks

[GotAU?]

I don't think I will be using my 6K for awhile so I initiated the repair request and am sending mine to the US Service center this week - they just sent me the instructions for sending it in -

I just recorded a short video to show the threshold stability differences between using the built in speaker and a wireless Bluetooth speaker.  I never realized it until I started using the built in speaker when I forgot to charge my Bluetooth speaker one day.  It is quite the difference, and as others here have said, it becomes rather unusable  with the threshold doing this.

I do have to thank the people at both the AU and US Minelab service centers for their help getting my repair request started. I will post a similar video showing the results of the servicing when it is returned.

 

 

[GotAU?]

13 hours ago, Aureous said:

Yeah I was thinking that, maybe during our Summer when its too hot to go out prospecting. Thanks

I was rather surprised at the difference a external speaker makes however, so if you really don't need it then yeah, I'd keep your hunt going for the remainder of your season.  I don't anticipate being able to go for awhile and have a backup detector if I do get the opportunity,  so I am going ahead with the update.  I will post about the results when I get them.

[phrunt]

That's an excellent example of one of the EMI problems GotAU.  How they could ever not consider that a fault I don't know which is why I was so annoyed at their first product notice blaming it on being a sensitive detector.  I'm glad they've come to the party and are fixing them all up.

 

[petere]

Great video Gotau shows the issue really well