Finally Minelab Take Responsibility For Screwing Up The GPX 6000 Speaker

[geof_junk]

Note the date of this patent for ML coil shielding.

 United States Patent Candy ( 10 ) Patent No .: US 11,454,736 B2 ( 45 ) Date of Patent : Sep. 27 9 ,2022

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[afreakofnature]

New coil OR new detector.  They don’t have you send in the coil.  But it looks thick like the Coiltek coils.

[oldcoinhunter]

Applied for on 9-4-2020 and just approved on 9-27-2022. 

[phrunt]

Mines in at the repair center now getting done, I'll be able to report back in a few days how the "fix" performs.

[jasong]

I took mine outside of town for about 20 minutes earlier today. Cell tower about 2 miles away one direction, power lines about 2 miles the other direction, town about 5 miles away. Helicopter flew over once. 

Still chatters, way more than I'd like, but didn't lose stability entirely like it often does. Walked around with it for 10 mins, then left it sitting on the ground for 10 mins. Didn't have headphone with me to compare with.

Still detects my S22 when off, against the right side of the case. Basically where that reddish wire is at in the photo that goes back towards the speaker. 

Anyways, was usable here, even if quite chattery, but this isn't where I detect for gold and location seems to make a big difference. Gonna be a bit till I can get to the Goldfields still.

[GotAU?]

22 minutes ago, jasong said:

I took mine outside of town for about 20 minutes earlier today. Cell tower about 2 miles away one direction, power lines about 2 miles the other direction, town about 5 miles away. Helicopter flew over once. 

Still chatters, way more than I'd like, but didn't lose stability entirely like it often does. Walked around with it for 10 mins, then left it sitting on the ground for 10 mins. Didn't have headphone with me to compare with.

Still detects my S22 when off, against the right side of the case. Basically where that reddish wire is at in the photo that goes back towards the speaker. 

Anyways, was usable here, even if quite chattery, but this isn't where I detect for gold and location seems to make a big difference. Gonna be a bit till I can get to the Goldfields still.

So how did it compare while sitting on the ground to the parts of my video with it just running the built-in speaker?

[Rob Allison]

Hey Guys,

 Just a FYI for you.  Keith at Detector Center called and official said they are doing the "speaker mod."  You will need to contact Detector Center and have a ticket created so they know it's coming to them.  Give them a call, let them know and then ship it to them.  

Hope this helps,

Rob

 

[jasong]

1 hour ago, GotAU? said:

So how did it compare while sitting on the ground to the parts of my video with it just running the built-in speaker?

Better than where your detector was completely unstable at the beginning, and where it got unstable a few seconds again after turning your Torus off.  But about the same as that point where you first turned the torus off and it started to get chattery but not totally unstable. Too chattery for my liking, but right when it'd just about sound like it wanted to go totally unstable, it'd back off and just stay chattery. 

I noise cancelled once after starting. Then about 5 or 6 times after it was sitting stable, and the subsequent noise cancels made it worse, not better.

I'm hesitant to draw many conclusions though, because this is a spot I've never run this detector before so my frame of reference is slim at best. 

If I had to take a random guess based off the very slim experience running it though, I'd either say they didn't redesign the main board for this fix, or if they did it was a lot of effort for lackluster results. 

But, I'm hopeful when I get further away from town and into the goldfields it'll be better. And it didn't go totally unstable setting on the ground here so that was a positive result I'm hoping too.

*edit: I should add, there were moments the threshold was actually close to what you hear in your Torus too. Especially when not moving. But as usual, the more input the detector got, the closer it'd seem to get to losing stability. I swear it seems like the cpu can only handle so much and then if too much noise happens at once it just goes downhill from there and has trouble recovering without a reset. 

That still seems to be the case, even if it's running a bit quieter.

[billdean]

If I understand all this correctly I would have a defective machine also. I purchased it in December of last year from Gerry. Not that it is his fault! I have always wore the head phones but yesterday I had forgot them. It does get really unstable without them.

I was going to post a video from my iPhone but can’t figure out how to do it.

I will try this: