Balancing act... or acting up.

Anyone notice that sometimes when you put the coil on the ground to sift through the dirt to find your target, when you get going again, the coil is out of balance and screams at everything and has to be bobbed up and down till it settles down again? Why? And why only sometimes? Why, why why?
I might have to start flicking it over to Fixed GB when the target's out of the ground.

Get rid of the gpz and no more problems.

UNCLE BOB wrote:Get rid of the gpz and no more problems.

Hmmm... interesting way at looking at it Uncle Bob. And then use a _ _ _ _ ?????

Dig a hole and start panning, just like the old timers did it.

slimpickens wrote:

UNCLE BOB wrote:Get rid of the gpz and no more problems.

Hmmm... interesting way at looking at it Uncle Bob.      And then use a _ _ _ _  ?????

SDC 2300

Plenty of 2300's for sale on Gumtree Victoria , 5 on last count, makes me wonder why. Cheers

lenoil wrote:
SDC 2300

Now how am I going to make my fortune using an SDC? I ain't got that long on the planet, I don't think. And as for panning Uncle Bob, I think that's what SDC users are doing- electronic panning. Don't get me wrong, I would love to own an SDC, I just haven't found  a credible reason to buy one.
Geez, get rid of Monique the GPZed, my beautiful gold magnet, because she wails every so often, I don't thinks so. What's wrong with you guys?  

I dunno GJ bloody good machine. They were designed for a purpose and they fit the bill perfect as far as im concerned. I chucked mine in the ocean the otherday. Still works, no problem at all. Ill shove the headphones up Minelabs cloaca tho, frigging horrible to use and dodgy as all get out.

Some holes dug gave up to 1000oz.

UNCLE BOB wrote:Some holes dug gave up to 1000oz.

Right Uncle Bob, you start warming up your time machine, I'll get a few things together, and I'll be right over. Set the date to take us to about 1850, location- anywhere in Castlemaine will do.

Cool, let's start a gold rush all over again

slimpickens wrote:Anyone notice that sometimes when you put the coil on the ground to sift through the dirt to find your target, when you get going again, the coil is out of balance and screams at everything and has to be bobbed up and down till it settles down again? Why? And why only sometimes? Why, why why?
I might have to start flicking it over to Fixed GB when the target's out of the ground.

Have you done the software upgrade?

JP

Jonathan Porter wrote:

Have you done the software upgrade?

JP

I've done the upgrade JP. It doesn't have this problem on every dig. Maybe I just get too close to the coil with some metal on me which throws it out of wack. I do the ferrite thing every time as well before every hunt. Harry

UNCLE BOB wrote:Some holes dug gave up to 1000oz.

I bet that there were far more that gave bugger all.

If you have too much metal on your person and you bring that metal just within range of the coil then it is possible the GB will start to track to it and then could go out of balance relative to the ground. In Auto GB mode just pumping the coil without Quick-Trak will bring things back in but it it takes too long then place the Ferrite on the ground then sweep over the Ferrite with Quick-Trak held in to speed things up. If that takes too long then do a power cycle and then re-do the Ferrite balance with Quick-Trak.

Hope this helps and Merry Christmas
JP

slimpickens wrote:

Jonathan Porter wrote:

Have you done the software upgrade?

JP

I've done the upgrade JP. It doesn't have this problem on every dig. Maybe I just get too close to the coil with some metal on me which throws it out of wack. I do the ferrite thing every time as well before every hunt. Harry

G'day Harry

Have you configured the "User Button" to use as a quick change between Auto GB and Fixed GB, when you have the target out or even before when your still digging and swinging the pick flick the user button over to fixed GB and this just may help with your problem.

I have been doing it this way and when yur finished retreiving the target and ready to start swinging again just go to the user button and switch back to Auto GB again, it works for me.

cheers dave

Qld Sandy wrote:

UNCLE BOB wrote:Some holes dug gave up to 1000oz.

I bet that there were far more that gave bugger all.

SHICERS......

JP. Yes, I  only re-balanced with the pumping up and down. I'll try it with the ferrite as well to see if it speeds it up. And try and keep any metal away from the coil.


Davesgold. Yes, my user button is set to fixed GB and I'll be changing it to fixed when I find a target to see if it "fixes" this minor irritation.

Thanks for your help guys, and have a Merry Christmas. Harry

slimpickens wrote:

lenoil wrote:
SDC 2300

Now how am I going to make my fortune using an SDC? I ain't got that long on the planet, I don't think.

Good point...

I should have suggested this new product instead:

http://m.ebay.com.au/itm/Long-Range-Metal-Detector-PLUS-Chroma-II-Bulk-Processor-No-ordinary-detector-/231785536447?nav=SEARCH

I know you love those sorta top-shelf detectors...

Yeah... nah...thanks for that Lenoil, but I think I'll just persevere with the Zed for now.  

Hi Slim, Guy's

I have noticed that if you leave the detector idol when in auto/tracking for any extended period (like when digging a target).
That when you resume detecting the detector in some ground types will be noticeably noisier.
I believe that the detector is recording 0 ground noise as the coil is not moving and that it adjusts the ground balance accordingly.
This effect is more pronounced in mineralized areas, you can test this for yourself by after ground balancing and detecting for a while just sit the detector down and don't move the coil for a few mins, then sttart detecting and see the difference.

Its never really bothered me I just pump the coil a few times and it starts to re-balance on its own, or in a problem area with high mineralization I just turn it to fixed via the user button, which I have advocated since its release.

GoldHound wrote: I just turn it to fixed via the user button, which I have advocated since its release.

Yep Dale,I think it's the way to go. Tried it today. Although I've found it doesn't go out of balance in 'Auto balance mode' if your quick enough in locating your target. Good excuse to get us to move our arses faster out there.