5000 and coal

a bloke in my home town who's a fulltime prospector, he has said that the 5000 is picking up the fire ash (coal) more than the 4s and the 45s. is this because they have trimmed down the timings like the fine gold and have them running a bit smoother so you hear these signals abit easyer? has anyone picked this up with there 5000l?
cheers
stoppsy

Hi Stoppsy
Yep seems to be on the grey ash piles in between the black where the timber has burnt and the ash is thick.I'm getting it in fine gold,not sure about enhance never thought to try.
Steve

I have found no difference in this between my old 4500 and my current 5000
cheers
Marty

deutran wrote:Hi Stoppsy
Yep seems to be on the grey ash piles in between the black where the timber has burnt and the ash is thick.I'm getting it in fine gold,not sure about enhance never thought to try.
Steve

I've tried it in enhance and it does in that setting as well.

Look forward to catching up in the new year!

Phil.

Good luck in the new year,have a good holiday.
Steve

yep, 5000 is more sensetive, but you can ground balance it out no trouble to know its not a nugget signal

Charcoal has been one of my biggest problems detecting, so this is very interesting indeed. I would have thought any GPX would have no problem with this. What about smooth mode on the 5000?

Yep, been sucked in by charcoal more than once with the 5000.   

Yep same here, but you can balance out charcoal and if it won't balance out keep digging because there is a metal target under the charcoal. Both the mrs and I have dug up gold from below charcoal.

Now, for which was giving the best signal to start with, hard to say, but when you give a few scrapes and see charcoal you first think no point digging, but then when it won't balance out so keep digging, and on a few occasions out came a gold nugget, biggest of which was a 13 grammer at a good 12" deep.

cheers dave

I used to get it at a spot I had in tarnagulla where I was getting a bit.with the 12" round nf ,went back with 14x9 blitz and it was ok.round inglewood can't say as its bothered me like it did in tarnagulla.