Yeah. For me here if all was well with me I'd have never sold my GPX5000 with its Evo coils. Killer combo here. Alas some health conditions saw me say goodbye to it. Im ok carrying and using my Xterra and the Monster will be similar weight and balance but better at finding small gold in bad ground. Was so happy when I heard it was coming out and I can get back into the game. Its a shallow small gold hunter and I don't really care that it is, it'll get me back out there. Don't think I'll bother with the Nokta now. I know I'll never be in the hunt for bigger gold deep like I used to do. But iv been there and done it and had my fun doing it.
I love your thinking of going after smaller finds as with many areas around the world that is where it is at. Not everyone has the ability to metal detect in your part of the world for both big and small finds.
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Hi. I owned the E15000 for several months and didn't like it. It was an early V1 and should never have been released the way it was. It was an insult to the intelligence.
Was the best detector I ever owned. Amazing sensitivity and depth. I owned one as soon as they were released. I still would if I could. Was a beast with the Evo coils on it.
Since you bought one and it wasn't up to par for you and now a V2 is out, I wonder if you could arrange to send it back for a updated version
Hi. No I sold it after I sent it back to have it checked out to be sure there were no operational issues for whomever bought it from me. I advised the person of the issues it had which I wasn't happy with and that it didn't perform like others on certain sites were falsely claiming it did and sold it with coil and battery for $1050 less than everything together cost me. He got $2650 worth for $1600 everything still under warranty. It had the brand new Sadie V2 coil with it.Since you bought one and it wasn't up to par for you and now a V2 is out, I wonder if you could arrange to send it back for a updated version
Hi mate. The 6 is good. I honestly think the three of them are good detectors. The 7000 was better in low to medium mineralised ground. But there's new coils for it now which have improved it. I owned one and personally preferred the 5000. It found stuff but at that particular time when I had the 5 and 7 the 5 with the Evo coils outperformed it, at the time quite substantially. I remember taking the 7000 to a hot spot of mine and found just 3 little bits. No drama that can happen places dont give up gold indefinitely. The 5000 with at the time the 12" evo prototype I was using blew me away. Same spot I got dozens of bits over a few week period with the best 25g. I don't doubt the new coils that you can get for the 7 up its performance as I hear. I haven't tried it with the new coils but believe the guys who told me its improved it significantly. But, there are a mod or two for the 5000 that has greatly upped its performance now increasing depth on larger targets. By all accounts I believe it does. The 6 is great on small to medium gold, no slouch on bigger stuff and a lot lighter than the 5000 and the 7000 brick. Id still back the 5000 as the leader especially with the mod. I can't knock any of those three machines honestly though.
I had the 7000. It finds small gold better than the gpx5000, but it is marginally better for large gold. The ground balance is better. Less hot rocks and works better on extreme mineralization. I would still be using it if it didn't burn with all my other belongings. I still have my gpx4500 and have no desire to replace the z. Sdc2300 was the best detector I ever owned and would buy another in a heart beat if I was in the market for another detector. The sdc finds the patch, the 4500 gets anything the sdc can't.
Hi yeah I found the 5 with the 12" flat wind or spiral wind coil got the smallest in fine gold mode. I owned both for an extended period pitting them against each other. Until the newer X coils came out it didn't compete with the 5 on depth on large targets, that was confirmed too by the manufacturer of Nugget Finder coils at the time. I used to test prototypes for him. But im in Australia and that's how it was here in the Golden Triangle in Victoria.
Hi. The new one will use the exact same ground handling and processing as the PI detectors unlike the GM1000. It might be a different kettle of fish the new one in that same scenario. We'll see soon enough. Unless you are talking about having tested out the new 2000?
Very interesting.
Hi. The middle and right one were 1 piece. You see the hollow in the middle one, thats where the protruding bit from the right one fitted into. It didn't fill the whole of that cavity but protruded into it. That was a positive signal that sounded like it was deeper into the quartz wall but was in the surface of it. You can see it still has on it some of the lovely greasy feel slate that was associated with the rich reef it came from on it.Very interesting.
To my eyes the left and middle rock pieces appear to have a small piece of 8–10-gauge gold section that got smashed / pocketed that is thick enough to signal overcome the much thinner background iron / minerals for the detector coil to respond to with a VLF. If both the gold and the background iron / minerals where the same thickness I'm thinking the VLF would not pick up on the gold as far as a signal reading goes. Having not a thick enough conductor for the coil signal to react to is an important factor is the point I'm getting at here.
The gold can conduct more of a signal cycle per gram then iron only if it is thick, enough is the point.
