Detecting around High Tension Power Lines

GypsyGoldAu wrote:Welcome to the forum Argus Tuft

Without knowing what/if you have a detector, i offer the following.

It CAN be done with a GPX (unsure of GPZ myself) using a Nugget Finder XP coil and adjusting settings to suit. I won't go into details as i'm unsure of your knowledge and don't wish to confuse you, however if you get a chance to look at Johnathon Porter's dvd of the GPX series (the one for the GPX 4000) it will give more details.

IIRC the 'blowing of capacitors" was on a GPX 5000 using a mono coil, but i am open to be corrected on this matter, as i have personally detected under power lines with my GPX4000.

Good luck in your hunt for the color.

GGA
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The recent 4500 deal is terrific and if cashed up, i'd be all over it. That's cheaper than i got into my 4K for and a step up at the same time.

Settings & timings will vary from ground to ground and even down to the o/head lines and their emi output in different areas.

If you go down this path with the 4500, read the manual, then read it again, then read it a 3rd time and get to 'know' your detector, before you even go looking for gold. Find an area without targets and put a range of various different metals out to 'practice' with. By doing this, you will become familiar with various settings and save yourself a LOT of walking without a result. Additionally, until you become competent with the detector, you will NOT be walking over or away from ACTUAL Gold, and in the long run be further ahead of the game.

Happy to help where possible, but the difference in the two models is enough that only 'some' of what i can offer will be of use, and you will need to draw on 4500 operators to assist with certain timings that the 4K doesn't have.

Good luck with your journey.

GGA

madtuna wrote:
Hi GGA,

Thought I'd ask a few questions on both your replies if you don't mind?

firstly, what does IIRC mean? and I've never heard of working near power lines damaging some ones detector so could you please elaborate?
For those of us who wish to be confused could you possibly go into detail regarding the settings?

IIRC = If I Remember Correctly

As to damaged detectors, i was only referring to Argus Tuft's mention of it, i have no personal experience but the grey cells seem to recall a poster on a thread somewhere about it and those were the details i'm able to recall, sorry not to have any specific item i can link to. (In the end it may very well only have been coincidental to be aroung HV's at the time and was in reality a different issue????)

Which settings would you be after? 4K or 4500???
My settings are based on an XP coil and NO cancel, which is slightly different to how you suggest to set up under power lines, so of little use to those who use DD and Cancel.

On to your 2nd reply,
wouldn't it be better to test your machine in an area WITH undug targets? (obviously in a gold producing area) because then your comment "By doing this, you will become familiar with various settings and save yourself a LOT of walking without a result." would hold true as an area WITHOUT targets WILL produce no results. Who knows, he could possibly find a nugget or two while learning his machine.

Also, while learning we are always walking over and away from gold, even when proficient we still do, I know I do.

Argus Tuft wrote:I am not an experienced detectorist GGA.

Argus Tuft wrote: it is moderately mineralised, shallow and comprised of weathered shale/schist