Garrett Vortex vs AT Max Comparison

[Guinea1]

 

[Jeff McClendon]

Considering the battery problems and temporarily bricked status of his Vortex VX9, he had high praise for the VX9's performance in his in the ground target test garden. He repeated the words "Very Impressive" many times, declared the AT Max as "Toast" and said that Garrett has a new VLF flagship detector at the end of the video. EMI was also not much of an issue and he noted that.

I was also very impressed with his in the ground target tests. They tell me a lot whether it is a pure depth test or a ferrous/non ferrous test buried 3D scenario.

I was particularly impressed when the Vortex VX9 nailed the ID of his 9" deep 1853 $1 gold coin.

[Tom B]

I watched the video, not bad for right out of the box, be interesting to see how it does, after Cali puts some hours on it 

 

[IBMe]

Apparently, it doesn’t recognize older fast chargers, it was slow for me. 10 hours and two bars … not so quick to buy that.

Hits coins hard.

I could easily tell a steel cap without any filter.

Aluminum caps way too wide to be a coin or ring.

Tabs give a wide sound.

With most of the enemies easy to eliminate, very relaxing hunt.

In trash you may have to use zero mode and occasionally turn iron audio on, it will pull some things down to iron depending on position.    

[Jeff McClendon]

IBMe can you write up a report with more details and post it in the Garrett Vortex section of this forum?

 

[Chase Goldman]

The Iron Boundary Setting referenced by Calabash as missing from his Quick Start guide is addressed in the online versions of both the Quick Guide and User Manual and can be downloaded from Garrett here:

https://garrett.sharefile.com/share/view/sda475238209d4687a72ddf5fabcb93f9/fo172b26-7760-421c-914c-3493dc79a5ce

Couple of typos on this page, though.

The maual states Iron Boundary settings 1 to 5, but apparently you can also set it to 0 (as shown in the above video).

The "Available only on VX9"  footnote should have a double vice single asterisk.

 

[phrunt]

I like what I see a lot, the EMI stability is fantastic, very stable target ID's considering too.  This is something I could see myself using, I like how simple everything is.  Looks like he might have a charger compatibility problem or possibly a faulty detector with a bad battery but more than likely it was just a charging issue, I think.

  

[Chase Goldman]

I've now seen three reports of very slow charging, so I don't think its a battery issue (but could be) but could be a charge controller issue.  No idea what the pedigree is of the chargers folks are using.  Garrett says 2A at 10 watts min (meaning 5 volts input).  When my Vortex arrives I will test it with a PD rated high wattage fast charger and see what happens.  Those chargers can source greater currents at 5 vdc as long as you stay within the wattage limits, of course the load has to be PD compatible in order to handshake with the charger to accept those higher currents.  No idea if Garrett designed the Vortex battery charge controller to be PD compatible.  I guess we will find out...

[phrunt]

If its fussy with chargers they should have included one or at least had a recommended one available to purchase with the detector by dealers/Garrett.