Keeping In Tune With The 4500

[idahogold]

Always carry a .45-00! Enjoy! Ig☺️

 

[Gold Hound]

7 hours ago, jrbeatty said:

Been using lipo cordless setups for years on GPX and QED. Only way to fly. 

Lightweight and very rapid vehicle recharge (10 minutes) with a balance charger. All available cheaply from Hobbyking or any RC shop.

Prefer headphones (I work mainly in winter) so use Sennheiser RS160 or TDK setup but (as Dale says) works with most speaker transmitter systems. Go lightweight cordless, never look back.

 

Once you go wireless you can never go back!!!

I've been using wireless transmission and lifepo cells for years too, first on the 4500 then the 5000 my first one was from Ismael in WA it was called the 'little ripper' and jeeze was it a ripper! I bought one of his first units and he even customized it to suit my requirements. Ismael is a real gentle man too.

[Chase Goldman]

On 2/9/2020 at 8:07 PM, Gold Hound said:

I did look at other transmitters but I wanted the speaker as its WAY to hot where we are working to wear headphones and we prospect for a living so the extra cost is negligible to us.

Amber more than payed for the whole setup on the first day with her finds anyway.

Understood.  Just putting the alternative out there for other folks considering wireless setups. You have obviously made your decision so it wasn’t directed at you, specifically, but at the hobbiest detectorist where a $200 US cost delta is not ”negligible”.  Speaker setups can easily be accommodated as well at basically the same cost (just plug in a speaker to the headset and use the headset as a receiver) and may be more cost effective for non-professional, non-prospecting uses such as historic relic hunting in the US.  The cost of the pro sonic system is often simply hard to justify in the face of these other equally capable home-brew and purpose built setups like Quest. Thanks.

[bado1]

I use nearly the same set up as Gold Hound. Lipo battery and wireless head phones...I'll never go back to being attached to the big brick battery. 

 

Dean

[MannyScoot]

Found small nuggets with the 4500 ....... This is Part #2 the actual nuggets after cleaning with spit ..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXXi5StNtw&t=42s

This is part #1 if interested in the area.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmHkeFG31HI

[MannyScoot]

37 minutes ago, phrunt said:

Good video, thanks ? Nice nuggets too.

Thanks brother !

[MannyScoot]

Got a New Cover if anyone is interested: The Eureka Worx made by Bob ....

4K Video Here : https://youtu.be/Jpz0NWRIn8o

[MannyScoot]

10 hours ago, phrunt said:

Thanks, That's a nice cover.  One of the things that bothered me the most with the 4500 was being tethered to it with the cords everywhere.  It's performance is great, especially with a spiral wound coil.

My GPZ came with a 4500 battery cover like that as an optional accessory to put on it's pro swing, I was going to try learn how to sew and stitch it onto my existing GPX cover.   I was always getting the battery cord tangled up on bushes as I walked through them.

Interesting your settlings with the Stabilizer on 1... I'd never tried that.  Last time I used mine I had the gain on 15, stabilizer at 10 from memory in sensitive extra with my threshold off, man was it sensitive to shotgun pellets with the 10" spiral X-coil in that setup.  I was shocked at how well it was performing, shortly after I got the GPZ so I haven't used the GPX since although I'll still use it sometimes, I've got a great selection of coils for it and it has its uses that's for sure.   I would struggle to ever sell it, it's an old Aussie made one too, a bit wild but I've heard countless times people say the old Aussie ones are deeper but noisier.

Try with a sensitivity of 1and 3......and find real small gold.....

[MannyScoot]

8 hours ago, phrunt said:

Sensitivity or stabilizer?

Stabilizer......today I had the gain on 12 and Stabilizer on 3..... Sensitive Extra normal mode. The smallest nugget is .17 and total weight 1.40 grams on the nose.